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Inside Todays Bytes:•Security flaws found in hundreds of email filtering tool
•Pocket PC users report trouble with SkypeOut
•BPL will kill digital radio stations?
•Zeiss says 10 megapixel cameraphones in the works
•New P2P software could end illegal music squabble
•Wireless to eat 10 percent of broadband pie by 2007
•Broadband has positive impact on education says research
•Mozilla Firefox to become 1.0
•More news, plus TidBytes... on the inside!... .

•Security flaws found in hundreds of email filtering tools:
The body responsible for protecting the UK's critical national infrastructure against electronic attack has issued an urgent alert to users about eight serious new security flaws affecting hundreds of email gateway products. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) alert (issued by UNIRAS - the UK equivalent of CERT) warns that flaws in the MIME internet email protocol extension could, if exploited, allow hackers to bypass content checking and antivirus tools and launch DoS attacks.
•Pocket PC users report trouble with SkypeOut:
Pocket PC users who were expecting to use the SkypeOut service to make calls via the Internet may find themselves without a dial-tone. Skype introduced version 1.0 of its Internet telephony application for Pocket PCs last week, but this version, the first nonbeta release of the software, does not work well on all Pocket PCs, users report. SkypeOut does not work properly on IPaq handhelds. Dell Axim users are reporting the same issue, as well. Skype is aware of a problem with Skype for Pocket PC and some IPaqs, a company spokesperson said. "We are currently fine-tuning the software to rectify the problem. We hope to have it resolved by next week."
•BPL will kill digital radio stations?:
Plans to offer the internet using mains electricity cables could cause so much interference that new digital radio stations could be obliterated, warned the chair of the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) at the International Broadcasting Convention. DRM is a standard agreed by world broadcasters for a completely new short wave radio system. The new internet power line distribution system has been evaluated by engineers, including the BBC, and has been found to affect short wave in particular.
•Zeiss says 10 megapixel cameraphones in the works:
Long-time camera lens vendor Carl Zeiss is getting into the cameraphone business and that company and its partner are predicting that, eventually, cameraphones will support resolutions of 10 megapixels. Zeiss last week said it would work with Dialog Semiconductor to create high-end camera modules for mobile phones. The companies said that they are about to start delivering high-quality camera modules and that 10 megapixel camera modules the size of a pea are within reach.
•New P2P software could end illegal music squabbles:
Grouper - a temporarily stealth software project - has gone up for download and instantly created a confusing divide between the old world and the new. Unlike most P2P software that shares music and other files with world+dog, Grouper focuses on sharing files between friends. Users can set up mini-P2P networks and open up their photos, music, movies and documents. Since it does not allow actual downloads of music, the software seems to be treading an uncomfortable line that the labels should not be able to complain too much about.
•Wireless to eat 10 percent of broadband pie by 2007:
Wireless access will account for nearly 10 percent of Australian broadband connections within three years, according to telecommunication analysts Ovum. The company predicts 298,000 of 3.1 million broadband connections servicing Australian businesses and consumers by 2007 will be wireless. Ovum says the figure includes both fixed (Wi-Max) and mobile (MBWA) wireless broadband connections, but excludes wireless data connections employing 3G mobile handsets.
•Broadband has positive impact on education says research:
Broadband is having a marked impact on children’s education in the UK, a study has shown. An in-depth survey of 50 UK families by the Future Foundation revealed that two-thirds of children with broadband access were spending more time using the internet for academic purposes including research and revision. Over the three-month period of the study, the time children’s spent on-line for educational purposes increased by 19%, while time spent on gaming and entertainment fell by 21%. Almost every child in the study (97%) used their broadband internet connection to do their homework and more than half, (58%), felt that their schoolwork would suffer without it.
•Mozilla Firefox to become 1.0:
Although it will technically be a preview release, with the full 1.0 version hitting the web in about a month's time, passing the version one is a bit of a milestone for the browser. The Mozilla Foundation's community quality advocate wrote in a blog over the weekend that he was just jacking in some final changes and once these were tested they'll become the official Firefox 1.0 Preview Release builds on Tuesday morning.
•WiMAX ISP expands to L.A.:
Wireless broadband provider TowerStream said Monday that it was expanding its service to Los Angeles. The company, which already has service in New York City, Chicago, Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, uses pre-standard 802.16, or WiMAX, technology. TowerStream said that it is currently putting antennas on some of LA's tallest buildings. Access is available to businesses within a ten mile radius of the antennas. The company said it expects to begin offering the service early next year.
•Symantec rolls out anti-phishing service:
Symantec will announce a new service to help financial institutions fight phishing attacks and online fraud. At the heart of the Symantec Online Fraud Management Solution is fraud blocking and filtering. The filters reside with the ISP, and prevent fraudulent e-mails from getting out. When a bank becomes a customer of Symantec fraud prevention, they provide a list of ISPs and legitimate Web addresses. Symantec has millions of decoy e-mail addresses that they monitor using honey-pot technology. When fraudsters send phishing e-mails to Symantec's decoy addresses, both technology and human assessment are put to work to identify an attack. Within 5-10 minutes of an e-mail being sent, Symantec deploys a filter that prevents those messages from getting through gateways.
•Central IT security service provider for the German government recommends Germans dump IE for Opera or Mozilla:
A spokesman for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), has said that internet users should switch from IE to Mozilla or Opera. The spokesman said IE is hazard-prone, attracting too many viruses and worms. BSI already uses a combination of alternative browsers. BSI is the central IT security service provider for the German government. Its recommendations are usually taken extremely seriously. MS Germany denies that IE is less safe than other browsers and says that it offers patches as soon as an exploit is discovered.
•DVD copyright test case goes to the High Court:
A test case on DVD and computer games copyright laws to be heard in the High Court next year could have far reaching implications for Australian consumers and industry players. Last year Sony successfully sued a mod-chip trader. Mod chips allow users to overcome the PS's security system so they can play pirated or copied games, legitimate gamed bought more cheaply, or make personal back-up copies. A key issue revolves around critical circumvention device provisions inserted into the Copyright Act under the Digital Agenda Amendments. The provisions were designed to prohibit the making and selling of devices that get around technological protection measures that manufacturers have placed on their products to prevent unauthorised access and copying.
•Ignore Longhorn and stick with XP, says Gartner:
MS may choose never to release its long-overdue project WinFS, following its removal from the next version of Windows, according to analysts Gartner. The recent announcement that WinFS would not debut in Longhorn after all makes Longhorn look increasingly like a product intended to simply fill in a gap in the schedule, Gartner said in a research note. However, the firm is sticking with its recommendation that companies standardise on WinXP SP2, so that they have a choice to shift to Longhorn if it turns out to be worthwhile.
•Heathcare of the future: The digital hospital:
The technology at one of the world's first all-digital cardiac care facilities, in Tulsa, Okla., allows doctors to access patient information, including digital scans, lab results and prescription drug information, from anywhere in the hospital, at home or off-site, using a wireless network. The hospital was built to be a state-of-the-art, paperless facility, where medical personnel have access to patient information on computers in every room. By going paperless and putting technology closer to patients, the hospital expects to address concerns that illegible handwriting on charts or prescription orders can lead to medical errors as well as the need for more direct contact between patients and health care providers.

TidBytes:
•KDE summit sets path for future development
•Western Digital expands hard drive line
•Intel recommends disabling hyperthreading
•Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux Base Standar
•Low-end Cisco routers to support Linux
•Japanese Gadget Turns Plants Into Speakers
•Dual-Core Chips May Raise Software Costs

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