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Last Updated: May 9th, 2008 - 15:52:44
[May 9, 2008, 15:50] SGI and Intel Corp. are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the PFLOPS barrier next year and hit 10 PFLOPS by 2012. A petaflop is a quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
Techs from SGI, a maker of high-performance computers, will begin installing the new supercomputer on May 21 and are slated to have it fully assembled in July. The machine, running quad-core Intel Xeon processors with a total of 20,480 cores, should initially hit 245 TFLOPS.
[May 9, 2008, 14:32] Microsoft today said it plan to post four security updates next week, three of them "critical," to patch Windows, Word, Publisher and all of the company's anti-malware applications.
Among the critical fixes will be one that quashes bugs in Microsoft's Jet Database Engine that go back as far as 2005. The other critical patches will close holes in Microsoft's word processor and desktop publishing programs.
[May 9, 2008, 11:09] News Corp. has no plans to jump in and rescue Yahoo Inc. now that Microsoft Corp. has walked away from its $47.5 billion takeover bid of the Internet company, News Corp.'s chief operating officer said during yesterday's earnings conference call.
In the days leading up to Microsoft's bid withdrawal, reports surfaced indicating that Yahoo was in talks with Time Warner Inc. to combine its Internet operations with AOL LLC in an effort to thwart Microsoft's bid. At the same time, News Corp., owned by Rupert Murdoch, was said to be in talks with Microsoft to jointly bid for Yahoo.
[May 9, 2008, 10:41] MySpace Inc. today unveiled its response to one of the most contentious issues surrounding social networking -- information portability -- with a new project that allows its users to share content from their profiles with any Web site.
The new MySpace Data Availability project is the first in a series of initiatives by the company to support data portability, allowing users to take the content they create in one network and easily add it to other sites, MySpace said.
[May 9, 2008, 09:11] AT&T Inc.'s on-again, off-again free Wi-Fi access for iPhone owners is back on as of today, with the carrier posting information about the service to its Web site.
Early on Thursday, the page dedicated to AT&T's subscriber plans for Apple's iPhone showed "Access to AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots" in a section that describes additional features of those plans.
[May 9, 2008, 08:37] Google Inc. today announced its Web Security for Enterprise, a product that protects organizations against malware attacks in real time.
The application allows organizations to control how employees use the Internet, according to a blog post by Tim Johnson, product marketing manager.
It also provides tools to help enterprises create and enforce Internet policies, the blog stated.
[May 9, 2008, 08:35] Mozilla Corp. yesterday warned users about a worm that slipped into Firefox's Vietnamese language add-on and went undetected for months.
The malware-infected file has been pulled from Mozilla's servers.
"The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 contains inserted code to load remote content," Window Snyder, Mozilla's chief security executive, confirmed in a post to the company's blog on Wednesday.
[May 9, 2008, 08:34] Social networking site Facebook Inc. announced today that it is boosting its privacy protections as part of an ongoing effort to work with 49 state attorneys general to protect children online.
As part of its agreement with the state AGs (minus Texas), Facebook said it will continue to enhance age and identity identification tools on facebook.com and provide automatic warning messages when a child is in danger of providing personal information to an unknown adult.
[May 9, 2008, 08:32] WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a nearly $111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site.
Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, awarded the judgment to the Motion Picture Association of America, the MPAA announced late yesterday. Cooper entered a default judgment against the operators of TorrentSpy in December, saying they had destroyed evidence related to an MPAA lawsuit against them.
[May 9, 2008, 08:17] JAKARTA, Indonesia — Microsoft Corp. will increase its focus on making mobile phones part of its strategy to spread IT to people in developing nations based partly on a prototype already developed for the purpose called Fone+.
It's a subtle change from the past now that Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, has taken over the company's Unlimited Potential Group, which focuses on the developing world.
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