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October 4, 2003
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electricsheep - Steelpad 4s Reviewed
Professional Gamers and non-Professionals alike will enjoy the Steelpad 4s. If you are in the market for a metal mousepad then look no further than the Steelpad 4s. Since it is geared towards Pros is price tag may be out of the reach for some. I highly recommend testing driving one out to see if it is right for you since picking a mousepad for profesional gaming is a lot like picking your mouse. It takes a lot of time to get used to it, and even more time to perfect your play while using it in competition.
Full Review:
http://www.esheep.org/reviews-steelpad4s-1.html
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ATI plugs in to profit surge
Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. has reported a 71 per cent surge in quarterly revenue and a profit that beat analyst expectations.
ATI, based in Markham north of Toronto but reporting in U.S. dollars, said Friday that revenue totalled $380.7 million in its fourth quarter ended Aug. 31.
This was up from $222.9 million in the year-ago period, and from $355.7 million in the immediately preceding quarter.
Net income was $22.3 million, nine cents per share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $34.6 million,15 cents per share.
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Messaging worms could infect at lightning speed
A computer worm transmitted via instant messaging programs could, in theory, infect half a million computers within 30 seconds, simulations have shown.
Instant messaging (IM) applications let users to type messages directly onto each others' computer screens via the internet. This has become a popular alternative to email among home users and office workers.
So far, no-one has designed a computer worm to spread by IM. But computer security experts warn that it provides an obvious and potentially explosive target.
Eric Chien and Neal Hindocha, researchers at US anti-virus company Symantec, set out to determine how quickly an IM worm could spread. They calculated the speed of spread based on the time required to send packets of information between the IM programs on users desktops, as well as the number of additional users in the average person's IM "buddy list".
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Jobs abound in India's tech sector
Software engineer Prakash just quit his job in Bangalore, but he's not worried.
"The market is booming. I can pick and choose a firm of my choice," said the 28-year-old engineer, who has been in the industry for about five years.
Companies are slashing payrolls in the United States and Europe to cut costs, moving software work offshore and creating thousands of jobs for India's low-cost engineers.
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ATI paid $6 million for Half Life 2 – the evidence
If you check out ATI's full document for its quarter, you will find this item on page four of the PDF.
"A non-recurring charge of about $6.0 million, consisting of incentive compensation and other charges associated with the signing of a development agreement".
This, almost certainly, is the $6 million ATI paid to bundle Half Life, in the multimillion auction revealed in the INQUIRER (http://www.theinquirer.net), and in which Nvidia was a bidder too.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) Gets Blame for Theft of Half Life 2 Code
Security experts are blaming known but unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer for the theft and distribution of the source code for a much anticipated new video game.
The source code for Valve Corp.'s Half Life 2, a sequel to the popular shoot-'em-up game that was due out by December, was posted on the Internet on Thursday, according to a statement from Valve Managing Director Gabe Newell.
The theft of the code, which was made available for download on the Net, came after a monthlong concerted effort by hackers to infiltrate Valve's network. Malicious activity in the Valve network included denial-of-service attacks, suspicious e-mail activity and the installation of keystroke loggers, Newell added.
This theft is only one item on a long list of security-related problems for the Redmond, Wash. software maker this week. Other happenings included the discovery of more security flaws in Internet Explorer and the filing of a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over such vulnerabilities in both applications and system software. And the company was also stung by a recent report arguing that the dominance of Windows is a hindrance to computing security.
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DivX is ready for its sequel.
Digital media upstart DivXNetworks may yet see a Hollywood ending for its controversial video format.
The San Diego-based company is perhaps best known among file swappers, who for years have used its highly regarded DivX compression technology to speed video downloads--with or without the permission of copyright holders. Now DivXNetworks is hoping for a sequel as the technology partner of choice for film studios and consumer-electronics makers working to bridge the Internet and television.
The tiny company, which has so far announced a mere $11.5 million in venture capital funding, might just pull it off. By this time next year, DivX-compatible DVD players will likely be standard fare at consumer-electronics outlets in the United States, increasing the pressure on industry giants such as Microsoft and RealNetworks to get their own formats off the PC and onto one of the hottest-selling consumer-electronics devices around.
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VeriSign shuts down Web site finder
Web address provider VeriSign Inc. said on Friday it would suspend a controversial new service that steers mistaken Web searches to its own page after the organization that oversees Internet policies demanded it do so.
Earlier on Friday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers issued a statement insisting that VeriSign halt its SiteFinder service and restore the ".com" and ".net" Web domains to the way they were before Sept. 15, when VeriSign began the service.
ICANN gave VeriSign until 6 p.m. PDT to comply with the request or face sanctions for violating its contract with ICANN.
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