<![CDATA[themauritius.com offers Computer Latest Technology news, Cellphones, Desktops Digital Camera Digital Music Entertainment Gaming Headlines Home Audio and Video information technology news Internet latest technology news Mobiles MP3 Network PC technology technology news Wifi Wireless - Articles - ]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news en-us N/A lramsurn@intnet.mu Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:49:28 EST 20 false false false clean <![CDATA[Cafepress.com's Web site knocked offline]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25932/1/Cafepresscoms-Web-site-knocked-offline/Page1.html Cafepress.com, the popular online shop that does custom printing, has been reeling this week from a distributed denial-of-service attack.

The company told us that the attack started on Tuesday, which interfered with holiday shopping orders because orders placed until that evening at midnight were accepted for Christmas delivery.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25932/1/Cafepresscoms-Web-site-knocked-offline/Page1.html <![CDATA[Mozilla issues security updates]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25922/1/Mozilla-issues-security-updates/Page1.html The Mozilla Foundation has issued "critical" security updates to vulnerabilities discovered in the Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and SeaMonkey application suite.

Flaws were found in versions of the open-source software prior to both Firefox 2.0.0.1 and Firefox 1.5.0.9, as well as prior to Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 and SeaMonkey 1.0.7, Mozilla said Tuesday.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25922/1/Mozilla-issues-security-updates/Page1.html <![CDATA[Popular MySpace group back after 'hack']]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25901/1/Popular-MySpace-group-back-after-hack/Page1.html A popular MySpace.com group is back online after what the group's leader says was a hack.

The World Artist Network group has just over 200,000 members and went offline on Sunday, according to a blog post by "Tommy Brown," the MySpace user listed as the group's leader. "My group was deleted somehow by someone," Brown wrote.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25901/1/Popular-MySpace-group-back-after-hack/Page1.html <![CDATA[Intel chip research focuses on memory cells]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25900/1/Intel-chip-research-focuses-on-memory-cells/Page1.html Intel is working on a transistor design that could help the company's designers pack more memory onto its processors.

Company researchers plan to present a paper this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco outlining its work on "floating-body cell" transistors, said Mike Mayberry, director of components research with Intel's technology and manufacturing group. Simply put, the floating body cells could allow Intel to build processors with larger amounts of on-chip memory to boost performance, he said.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25900/1/Intel-chip-research-focuses-on-memory-cells/Page1.html <![CDATA[Scammers take Web mail hostage]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25899/1/Scammers-take-Web-mail-hostage/Page1.html After visiting a cybercafe, a Hotmail user returned to find the Web mail account empty except for a note demanding payment for the return of the messages and address book, a security firm said Monday.

The affected person had accessed the Hotmail e-mail account from an unspecified Internet cafe in Mexico, said Dan Hubbard, senior director of Websense Security Labs in San Diego.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25899/1/Scammers-take-Web-mail-hostage/Page1.html <![CDATA[AMD promotes Rivas as chip leader]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25898/1/AMD-promotes-Rivas-as-chip-leader/Page1.html

Advanced Micro Devices has named Mario Rivas as the new head of the company's Computation Products Group, which designs and makes AMD's processors. Current President and Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer had continued to hold on to that role after he was kicked upstairs earlier this year.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25898/1/AMD-promotes-Rivas-as-chip-leader/Page1.html <![CDATA[AMD on track for shift to 45-nano manufacturing]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25897/1/AMD-on-track-for-shift-to-45-nano-manufacturing/Page1.html One of the big questions in the chip industry today is whether Advanced Micro Devices can make the hop to 45-nanometer manufacturing in 18 months, as the company has promised. One prominent analyst says that, so far, the chances look good.

"It's definitely doable," writes Dan Hutcheson, CEO of VLSI Research.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25897/1/AMD-on-track-for-shift-to-45-nano-manufacturing/Page1.html <![CDATA[Intel adds another quad-core Xeon]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25896/1/Intel-adds-another-quad-core-Xeon/Page1.html Intel announced a new quad-core Xeon server processor Monday, a 2GHz model that originally was slated to appear in February. The Quad-Core Xeon 5335, which consumes a maximum of 80 watts, is a midrange model.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25896/1/Intel-adds-another-quad-core-Xeon/Page1.html <![CDATA[Home audio without the wires]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25895/1/Home-audio-without-the-wires/Page1.html Scott Rust, senior design engineer at Neosonik, pushes a cart holding an LCD TV down the driveway. We pass a semi-constructed 1967 Mustang, a boat trailer and a couple of incomplete trucks. The guys at the neighboring warehouse are discussing a coming storm.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25895/1/Home-audio-without-the-wires/Page1.html <![CDATA[FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool]]> http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25843/1/FBI-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/Page1.html The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

]]> no@spam.com (CNET News.com) http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/25843/1/FBI-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/Page1.html