Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 27, 2005 at 7:17:03 AM
In case you're wondering, there will be updates to the CES coverage currently up. Also, there will be some new content soon.
Microsoft must meet with DOJ about Longhorn's development.
RealNetworks sees growth, but is at a loss due to the case against Microsoft.
Trojan hides in Microsoft looking email.
Speakeasy packages Firefox in ISP package.
Animal-Human Chimeras. I hate this stuff.
New space suits on the horizon.
Microsoft must meet with DOJ about Longhorn's development.
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For some months now, the Department of Justice and several states have been reviewing plans for the new OS, which is slated to ship next year. Microsoft has already scaled back several key features of Longhorn, including an all-new file system, that were to have been part of the OS. The Justice Department and the state attorneys general have submitted a list of issues on which they want more information, and Microsoft has agreed to regular briefings, with the first of those taking place in February.
RealNetworks sees growth, but is at a loss due to the case against Microsoft.
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The company said it lost 1 cent per share on revenue of $72.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2004, compared with a 3-cent loss on revenue of $54.1 million in the same period a year earlier. Excluding the expenses of the company's antitrust litigation against Microsoft, the company said it earned a profit of a penny per share for the quarter.
Trojan hides in Microsoft looking email.
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The attached executable file, named Windowsupdate.rar, appears to be a Windows archive file, a format used to install code on PCs. Antivirus company Symantec said the file is not listed in the virus database, so it's unclear whether the file is a virus, a prank or any other kind of attack.
Speakeasy packages Firefox in ISP package.
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The Speakeasy version of Firefox, announced Tuesday, is not different from what the public can download for free. All of Firefox's features, such as tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking, are included in the software.
Animal-Human Chimeras. I hate this stuff.
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But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?
New space suits on the horizon.
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The ultimate goal of this concept is a symbiotic interaction of astronaut and spacesuit like that between humans and terrestrial plants in which the astronaut’s waste carbon dioxide and water vapor are converted back into respirable oxygen in the suit walls using environmental energy sources.