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Skype and eBay have settled a legal dispute, including an antitrust claim, with IDT Corp.
Driven mad by beeping servers involved in the SAP-Oracle lawsuit, a tech in Texas is fighting back.
Pity the morons at iPhoneUnlockUK. They sold an iPhone unlock based on the Dev Team’s work and now are paying the price . Hackers broke into iPhoneUnlockUK’s servers, stole their customer lists, and sent the lists to the Dev Team who have decided to enact a little frontier justice. They just sent emails to the service’s 21,000 customers encouraging them to wise up and ask for their money back.
With Christmas day imminent, you can understand that online shopping websites have seen larger amounts of traffic than usual. Popular sites such as Amazon and Wal-Mart are some great examples of these, but they're also prime targets for DDoS attacks, as demonstrated earlier in the day. As CNET reported earlier, a DDoS attack was launched on the servers of Neustar, a company that provides DNS services for other websites, under the name UltraDNS. Neustar confirmed the attack on Wednesday afternoon, stating that they managed to get things under control fairly quickly, before too much inconvenience was caused.
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Some users' e-mail will still be delayed as servers send out queued correspondences; Research in Motion is still investigating the cause of the outage.
Users of the recently released Dragon Dictation speech-to-text app for the iPhone can now opt out of uploading contact names to the app's servers. Developer...
Forbes is running an article titled The Death of the PC, which ruminates upon the increased use of virtualization software, and briefly shares the story of one company that has virtualized their desktop PCs. In my day job, I’ve looked at desktop virtualization solutions a couple of different times from different vendors. I think it’s really cool tech, and I think provides some demonstrable benefits; but I think those benefits are only gained in specific instances. You’re not going to be using a virtualized desktop at home, and neither will your parents, any time soon. Obviously the virtualization companies want us to all think this is a done deal, and that virtualized computing is the way of computing from here on out. It should be noted that Citrix, one of the up-and-coming virtualization providers, was also one of the up-and-coming thin client solutions from more than a decade ago. That plan didn’t work out so well for them then; and I’m not convinced that their current efforts are going to be more successful. Image from gizmowatch.com
I just thought this was a pretty fun group achievement idea; reminds me a bit of the Noby Noby Boy reaching the other planets thing. But more awesome. Valve has proven once again that it knows how to engage its community. I’m gonna go start tearing some fools apart right now. Oh, one more thing: GO TEAM DEMOMAN.
Tuesdays usually stink for World of Warcraft. The servers go down early in the morning for maintenance, and then stay down well after the scheduled time more often than you’d care to see. Today doesn’t stink, since Patch 3.3 is indeed dropping. I cannot wait to leave the terribly fancy TC/CG office, get home, fire up the game, then PUG till the sun comes up. So yeah, the downtime today is because Blizzard is preparing the servers for Patch 3.3, the last content patch for the game’s latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. That means we’ll be seeing more and more Cataclysm news and speculation from here on out. (I think I’ll be rolling a Worgen Rogue or Druid, not sure yet.) The highlights of Patch 3.3 are as follows: • Icecrown Citadel instance— take that, Lich King! • Three more five-man instances • Cross-server Looking For Group (which means when you PUG you’ll be paired off with people from servers other than your own, which should make PUGing approximately 3 million times better, especially for lower level characters) And other stuff. SO yeah, it’s a pretty big deal. I’m excited; it’s going to be a late night!
Neowin will be offline for a brief period today for a short maintenance window in which the servers that run the site are being re-racked at the datacenter. This will require all six servers to be shutdown, removed from the racks, and reinstalled. We anticipate this work will take no longer than 30 minutes, but should complications arise, the work may take slightly longer. I will be on hand throughout the work to ensure the servers come back up promptly, and without issue when they are reinstalled into the racks. This work is scheduled to be carried out around 10am EST (GMT-5). We thank you for your patience whilst this essential work is conducted.
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If you’ve been waiting for some way to put your low- to middling-resolution videos onto a big TV, your prayers have been answered. Flip, through their mouthpiece Walt Mossberg, just dumped out a big bucket of howsyerfather and announced the Flipshare for all to enjoy. The device will cost $150 and plugs into an HDMI or component video input. It streams videos wirelessly thanks to a white wireless dongle and includes a remote. The device can share Flip video files with ease, other files not so much. Does the world need another specialized streaming device? With Roku boxen working so well and especially with channels enabled, the Flipshare makes sense if you’re totally into your Flip. Our original hope was that this thing would stream everything to everyone. It won’t. Oh well, at least we can still use their cameras to film the moments of our lives.
Spotify, the popular music streaming service, has announced an application for Nokia Symbian devices. The software not only runs on a host of different Nokia Symbian devices but also on the Samsung GT-I7110 , Samsung i8910 Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio. Spotify is a multi-platform application which provides access to a free and legal barrage of online music. Its a streaming music player which has a similar feel to iTunes. Through it a user can get links to a large number of albums and tracks. Spotify use a peer-to-peer network along with streaming servers to provide their music. Spotify Mobile is also available on the iPhone and Android devices.
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It turned out that a lot of those so-called Modern Warfare 2 protesters were talking jive, as they played the game late into the night, alone with their hypocrisy. (It’s overdramatic Tuesday, by the way.) How did the Left 4 Dead II protesters do? A little bit better, yes. Less people in the Steam “L4D Boycott” group have turned their backs on their principles. Then again, now that Modern Warfare 2 has dedicated servers… And here’s a shocker: I read Rock Paper Shotgun’s review of the Left 4 Dead II today, and now I’m very likely going to buy the game. My one reservation is that the Xbox 360 version ends up being ignored, like the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2 was. I need reassurances that Valve won’t stab me in the heart if I buy the game for the 360!
HP is adding a pair of new servers to its Extreme Scale Out portfolio.
Well, you can’t keep a good PC gamer down. Certain cracks already allow some online play, and now the console has been enabled, allowing players to kick, change POV and FOV, and presumably do most of the stuff Infinity Ward decided had to stay in the cookie jar. Tut tut, developers. You didn’t see this coming? You could have made it easier on yourselves, but instead you turned a whole segment of your market against you. Here’s the download link for the tool (use at your own risk) and the discussion thread at Guru3D.
 HP is acquiring network infrastructure manufacturer 3Com for $2.7 billion. 3Com provides networking, switching, routing and security components.
HP says the acquisition will further its data center strategy “built on the convergence of servers, storage, networking, management, facilities and services.” The acquisition of 3Com also help to expand HP’s Ethernet switching offerings, add routing solutions and significantly strengthen the company’s position in China thanks to 3Com’s strong presence in China.
So what kind of gain is Redmond looking at? Round-about a 1% increase in October. Now before you put your flaming hats on, Mac-lovers, that’s a 1% absolute increase, meaning that the percentage of computers running 7 in the world went from 1.75% to 2.82%. That’s a pretty significant gain, though I admit it is ripe for mockery by the ignorant. The 1% gain, indicated by statistics collected by StatCounter, is accompanied by a 1.2% drop in Vista and .5% drop in XP installs. It’s worth considering that since these are based on computers browsing around the internet, a lot of business PCs and servers are probably left out of the count — though they too will take a while to ramp up as IT departments figure out just how they want to go about it. OS X gained half a point during October too, so they’re not standing still either. 7 represents a bigger threat than the divided XP/Vista front. In a year that 2.82% will probably have the decimal point moved right one place, and its user-friendly features and critically-acclaimed status may actually put a bit of pressure on Cupertino. We’ll soon see, though.
Alright, BlackBerry owners, don’t rush all at once. I know you probably wanna get in on the Redfly mobile companion game but we need to remember to act civilized. It’s understandable that you’re excited that Redfly can now kick it with BlackBerrys along with Winmo phones, but don’t flood the servers all at one time. The latest Redfly update isn’t really a surprise. The company announced BlackBerry support was coming, but we just didn’t know when. But with the update, the Redfly C8N and C7 can now extend the desktop of the BlackBerry Bold 9000, Curve 8900, and Tour 9630 to the Redfly’s 800×480 resolution display. Oh, and the update is free. Just don’t push and shove to get it.
CNet was able to get an exclusive look inside one of the largest data centers in the world, owned by Microsoft to help power cloud-computing with Windows Azure. The secret location of the data center, located somewhere in Chicago, is not your ordinary data center setup, they're in shipping containers. The new data centers are brought in by shipping containers, housing anywhere between 1,800 and 2,500 servers each. Once the shipping containers arrive, the team can install each of the server groups in under a day, where it would normally take months to setup and install servers. The servers remain inside the shipping containers inside the facility, where they are placed side by side and stacked two high.
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Facebook users have been targeted by a large-scale spam attack that informs them that their password has been reset, and that the attached zip archive contains their new password. Instead of a new password, users will find a trojan downloader, dubbed "Bredlab" or "Bredolab" by anti-virus companies. The downloader then downloads additional malware from two servers, including fake anti-virus software, and joins the Bredolab botnet. This gives attackers full control of the PC, allowing them to steal user information or use the PC to send spam emails. One of the servers is based in the Netherlands, with the other in Kazakhstan, according to an alert on Websense, a security research company.
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Apple released a server diagnostic download on Thursday that the company says will test servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6 for hardware issues.
OCZ is showing strong commitment to be at the forefront of SSD technology. Over the past year the company has released nearly a dozen different series targeting every possible market, from affordable netbook oriented products to enterprise-grade solid state drives for servers and data warehouses. They have had a great deal of success with multi-level cell (MLC) drives such as the Vertex we reviewed a few months ago. At the other side of the spectrum, single-level cell (SLC) solid state drives tend to sell for more outrageous prices. OCZ has been working on making this technology a bit kinder on your bank account.
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 I can't stand it, i know you planned it
Ima set it straight, this Watergate
I can't stop textin' when i'm in there
'cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear
So, while you sit back and wonder why
I'm missing my pics when I slide my 'Kick
Oh my god, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage
So,so,so, so listen up 'cause you can't say nothin'
You shut me down with a push of your button
But AppleInsider knows why your data's gone
I'll tell you now I keep it on and on:
...someone with access to the servers at the datacenter must have inserted a time bomb to wipe out not just all of the data, but also all of the backup tapes, and finally, I suspect, reformatting the server hard drives so that the service itself could not be restarted with a simple reboot (and to erase any traces of the time bomb itself)... If this was an ordinary sort of failure, the service would have come back within a day, so once again, all signs point to sabotage.
I think we’ve all had our fill of The Pirate Bay stories, but here’s one more in the interest of killing five minutes. The site moved its servers from Sweden to Ukraine last week, and rather than have its servers being stored in some random server farm, they’re being stored in a former NATO nuclear bunker. So we think, at least. Yup, so TPB’s new ISP, CyberBunker, has provided the site with access to a former NATO bunker that can withstand a nuclear attack, as well as Electromagnetic Pulses. That way The Man can’t interfere with your ability to grab that latest DVD rip you have your heart set on. What’s not known, however, is whether or not the actual servers are inside said bunker. Or maybe they’re in a different bunker, or maybe they’re just somewhere else where nobody can find them. And interestingly enough, the crazy Dutch anti-piracy organization, BREIN, did attempt to stop the move to Ukraine, but CyberBunker, after a bit of hemming and hawing, refused to bow to the pressure. All is right in the world.
HP will update its Integrity servers next year to coincide with the launch of Intel's new Tukwila Itanium chip, an HP executive said.
Intel claims its processor architecture can power any device, from PCs and servers to smartphones and TVs. But will a CPU monoculture benefit customers?
A few days ago Opera released Opera Mini 5 beta for public testing. Opera Mini is the most popular mobile phone browser and differs from other browsers in the way it delivers content to you. All your web traffic will pass through Opera's servers (much like the Turbo feature in the desktop versions) which compresses the data to save data cost and make pages load faster on your phone. This enables you to view full websites in Opera Mini instead of having to visit special mobile versions. New features in Opera Mini 5 beta include: A completely new look and feelTabbed browsingBetter touchscreen and keypad supportPassword ManagerSpeed dialOpera Mini is supported on most BlackBerry and Java-enabled phones.
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While it has seemed at times like it’s running on a old TRS-80, Blizzard is using some very cutting-edge equipment to keep us entertained. Apparently, in order for you to be able to log in whenever you want, it takes roughly 20,000 computer systems, over a petabyte of storage, and over 4600 people. Using multiple data centers around the world, this works out to a total of 13,250 server blades, 75,000 CPU cores, and 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM. They even monitor the weather in the areas where the data centers are, just to ensure that the servers don’t go down in the middle of that Naxx raid. I think we’ve all wondered where our $14.95 a month has been going, and now we know: massive amounts of hardware so you can complain that the last patch “ruined” the game.
HP says it will offer 60GB and 120GB solid-state disk drives in its line of ProLiant G6 and G5 servers.
Free Download Manager (FDM) is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application, a full-featured download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. FDM allows you to download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never! With FDM you needn't start the downloading from the beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the place where it have been interrupted. Also this program warns you if some servers don't support download resuming. It allows you to make a decision about the downloading. So with FDM you save your time and money.
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With all the 
Blizzard released some interesting information about the inner workings of World of Warcraft recently at