By Jo on Oct 24, 2007 in Facebook, Google, Microsoft | 0 Comments
Microsoft has payed $240 million for 1.6 percent stake of the social-networking website Facebook, that is valued at $15 billion..
The deal grants Microsoft exclusive access to spam advertise on Facebook’s platform.
Microsoft already has numerous U.S. ad contracts and is now looking forward to sell internationally.
By Jo on Oct 24, 2007 in Computer Security | 0 Comments
Russian security software firm Elcomsoft (that I ‘m sure you already heard of in 2001 and 2002) has discovered a password recovery technique and has filed for a US patent.
Elcomsoft ’s avant-garde,technology can perform password recovery 25 times faster than existing CPU-only approaches thanks to nVidia’s $800 graphics card called the GeForce 8800 Ultra.
Their amazing [...]
By Jo on Oct 23, 2007 in Cellphones | 0 Comments
iPhone’s Elite team has released a free revirginizer tool for the 250,000 owners of unlocked iPhones .
According to the iPhone’s Elite team if you use the tool accurately your 1.0.2 unlocked iPhone will be restored to its default unbricked/unlocked state then can safely be upgraded to 1.1.1. that you have been dreaming about.
By Jo on Oct 23, 2007 in Storage | 0 Comments
Samsung Electronics Co announced yesterday that it has created the world’s first 30nm-class 64Gb NAND chip.
The well advanced 64-gigabit NAND flash memory chip relies on a high quality process technology operated by circuit elements that are only 30 nanometers wide.
In case you were sleeping in class, a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter; for example [...]
By Jo on Oct 23, 2007 in Science | 0 Comments
Two new websites are offering people the possibility to get their DNA tested without leaving their chair.
With GeneTree.com, which opened on Tuesday, and Ancestry.com you can buy yourself a DNA kit for less than $200.
Enabling users to build online family trees by contacting others with DNA matches meaning your next family reunion has just gotten [...]