by John Fruehe July 3, 2009
Brad Pitt’s brother isn’t the only one to live in the shadows of a more famous sibling. The latest AMD OpteronTM 1000 Series processor, codenamed “Suzuka”, was launched in the shadow of its 6-core bigger brother, the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor codenamed “Istanbul.” The AMD Opteron 1000 Series processor is designed for applications that are driven by cost or power concerns more than scalability. In the past, this meant a single core in a single socket, but in today’s multi-core world, this means four high performance cores in a single socket. Typically, these processors are used in web servers, small business servers, workstations and even cloud computing. The flexibility of four cores and a low cost infrastructure gives customers an edge when designing for a cost-effective or power efficient platform. With speeds of 2.5GHz, 2.7GHz and 2.9GHz, these single-socket processors pack a punch. It’s based on the same core as the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor codenamed “Shanghai,” so all the great features that you find in “Shanghai” are also in “Suzuka.”
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Month Of Twitter Bugs exposes microblogging flaws
Making a hashtag of Web 2.0 security
By John Leyden, 3rd July 2009
The Month Of Twitter Bugs has begun with the publication of a flaw in a URL shortening service often used in conjunction with the microblogging service. Four cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the bit.ly URL-shrinking service were published on Wednesday. TweetDeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, integrates bit.ly, making the flaws much more risky than might otherwise be the case. Fortunately, three of the four bugs were fixed before an alert was published. The last flaw was addressed hours after the release of a notice via Twitpwn, the home page of the Month Of Twitter Bugs project. On Thursday, the Twitpwn project published details of a resolved cross-site scripting flaw in HootSuite toolbox. The Month of Bugs series was inaugurated three years ago with a four week period that offered a different browser bug every day. Originally, the brainchild of HD Moore, of Metasploit fame, noted researcher Aviv Raff is applying the idea to Twitter and associated service during July. He notes that the idea might just as easily be applied to any other Web 2.0 service.
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By John Leyden, 3rd July 2009
The Month Of Twitter Bugs has begun with the publication of a flaw in a URL shortening service often used in conjunction with the microblogging service. Four cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the bit.ly URL-shrinking service were published on Wednesday. TweetDeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, integrates bit.ly, making the flaws much more risky than might otherwise be the case. Fortunately, three of the four bugs were fixed before an alert was published. The last flaw was addressed hours after the release of a notice via Twitpwn, the home page of the Month Of Twitter Bugs project. On Thursday, the Twitpwn project published details of a resolved cross-site scripting flaw in HootSuite toolbox. The Month of Bugs series was inaugurated three years ago with a four week period that offered a different browser bug every day. Originally, the brainchild of HD Moore, of Metasploit fame, noted researcher Aviv Raff is applying the idea to Twitter and associated service during July. He notes that the idea might just as easily be applied to any other Web 2.0 service.
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World’s Smallest LCD Screen Created: 0.27 Inches in Diameter
Written by Andrew Kessel
Any insecure Hummer owner with a bad track record on the dating scene will tell you “it’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use it” and, for once, that might actually be true. The Kopin Corporation, a self-described nanosemiconductor company, has created the minuscule range of LCD displays dubbed Cyberdisplay. The newest member of the display range measures in at 0.27 inches along its diagonal with a resolution of 600 x 480. Reported to be the smallest full-color VGA screen in the world, this powerful combination of diminutive screen size and monster resolution is an innovation that could have a serious impact on the miniature display market.
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Any insecure Hummer owner with a bad track record on the dating scene will tell you “it’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use it” and, for once, that might actually be true. The Kopin Corporation, a self-described nanosemiconductor company, has created the minuscule range of LCD displays dubbed Cyberdisplay. The newest member of the display range measures in at 0.27 inches along its diagonal with a resolution of 600 x 480. Reported to be the smallest full-color VGA screen in the world, this powerful combination of diminutive screen size and monster resolution is an innovation that could have a serious impact on the miniature display market.
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Apple's latest iPhone has powerful flaw
High-tech tools taxbattery's short life
By David Sarno July 3, 2009
The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life — but its battery isn't one of them. Buyers are finding that the phone, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a work day without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel on Apple's flagship device, more than 1 million of which were sold in the first weekend. Even the company suggests on its Web site that users disable some of the phone's most vaunted features, including the faster 3G network itself, to keep it from shutting down during the day. Industry officials and outside experts sketched a complex picture of the technical and bureaucratic limits that might explain why, after two years and three generations of the device, the newest iPhone has less stamina than the first. "There's trouble in the battery field in that there's only so much energy you can squeeze in a certain space," said Allen Nogee, a wireless technology analyst at research company In-Stat. Try to pack in too much juice, he said, and the battery could overheat or even melt. "There's not really a solution in sight," he said.
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By David Sarno July 3, 2009
The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life — but its battery isn't one of them. Buyers are finding that the phone, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a work day without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel on Apple's flagship device, more than 1 million of which were sold in the first weekend. Even the company suggests on its Web site that users disable some of the phone's most vaunted features, including the faster 3G network itself, to keep it from shutting down during the day. Industry officials and outside experts sketched a complex picture of the technical and bureaucratic limits that might explain why, after two years and three generations of the device, the newest iPhone has less stamina than the first. "There's trouble in the battery field in that there's only so much energy you can squeeze in a certain space," said Allen Nogee, a wireless technology analyst at research company In-Stat. Try to pack in too much juice, he said, and the battery could overheat or even melt. "There's not really a solution in sight," he said.
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