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ลองดูคลิปวีดีโอมินิรีวิวได้ท้ายข่าวครับ

ที่มา: NewGadgets.de (ฉบับแปลเป็นภาษาอังกฤษ) ผ่าน Engadget

paulelaguna writes "The dream of owning a household robot is starting to become reality, particularly for people in Japan. There are robots to help you do the dishes, move furniture, and even robotic wheelchairs to help you get around. Really, the only question that remains for us is when do we move?"

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นายประเสริฐ อภิปุญญา รองเลขาธิการ กทช. เผย ที่ประชุม กทช. พิจารณาค่าปรับจากการเปิดบริการคงสิทธิเลขหมายโทรศัพท์ตามกำหนดไม่ได้ วันละ 166,667 บาท เริ่มปรับหลังจากได้รับจดหมายแจ้ง 5 วัน โดยคำนวณค่าปรับจากการประเมินมูลค่าความเสียหายที่ประชาชนได้รับจากการต้องใช้บริการที่ตนเองไม่พึงพอใจ และอาจพิจารณาเพิ่มค่าปรับเป็น 2 เท่าในเดือนที่ 2 และ 3 เท่าในเดือนที่ 3 หากยังไม่สามารถเปิดให้บริการได้ ค่าปรับนี้จะเข้ากระทรวงการคลัง

ที่มา: มติชนออนไลน์

And once again Google is in the news regarding privacy issues, this time it’s regarded their social networking service Buzz (which by all accounts is pretty much a flop). The way in which the service used Gmail users address books alarmed a lot of people and the default settings were rather risky and revealed a [...]

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The Iso writes "Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle reprinted on her web site without permission, so it did what it always does: bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages."

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หลังจาก ExoPC เผยแท็บเล็ตรัน Windows 7 ในงาน Computex ที่ผ่านมา ล่าสุด ExoPC ก็เปิดให้สั่งจองแท็บเล็ต ExoPC Slate ล่วงหน้า ข้อมูลทางเทคนิคมีดังนี้

• หน้าจอ 11.6 นิ้วที่ความละเอียด 1366x768 พิกเซล แบบ capacitive พร้อมกล้องเว็บแคม 1.3 ล้านพิกเซล
• ซีพียูอินเทล Atom N450 1.66 กิกะเฮิร์ต
• RAM 2 กิกะไบต์
• การ์ดจออินเทล GMA 3150 พร้อมชิป Broadcom Crystal HD 1080p
  
• SanDisk P4 SSD 32 หรือ 64 กิกะไบต์
• รองรับ Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n บลูทูธ
• มี accelerometer และเซ็นเซอร์แสง
• แบตเตอรี่อยู่ได้ประมาณ 4 ชั่วโมง น้ำหนักเครื่องรวมราว 950 กรัม
• รัน Windows 7 Home Premium พร้อมโปรแกรมของ ExoPC ครอบอีกที ซึ่งสามารถท่องเว็บ ดูหนังฟังเพลง อ่านอีบุ๊ก และเข้าถึง App Store ของบริษัทเองได้

สนนราคาสำหรับรุ่น SSD 32 กิกะไบต์อยู่ที่ 649 ดอลลาร์ (ราว 20,300 บาท) ส่วนรุ่น 64 กิกะไบต์อยู่ที่ 749 ดอลลาร์ (ราว 23,500 บาท) หน้าตาเครื่องและคลิปรีวิวเมื่องาน Computex ที่ผ่านมาดูได้จากท้ายข่าว

ที่มา: ExoPC Forum ผ่าน Engadget

Stoobalou writes "The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music."

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ข่าวลือยังไม่ยืนยันมาจากเว็บไซต์ CrackBerry ระบุว่า DataViz เจ้าของโปรแกรมเอกสาร Documents To Go ซึ่งมีให้ใช้บนสมาร์ทโฟนแทบทุกแพลตฟอร์ม ได้ตกลงขายกิจการให้ RIM แล้วด้วยมูลค่า 50 ล้านดอลลาร์

CrackBerry ได้ยืนยันว่าพนักงานของ DataViz ที่ใช้บริการ LinkedIn ได้เปลี่ยนข้อมูลนายจ้างของตัวเองเป็น RIM กันเยอะแล้ว ถ้าข่าวนี้เป็นจริงก็ถือว่าเป็นการซื้อกิจการที่น่าสนใจของ RIM เพราะจะเข้ามาช่วยเสริมความแข็งแกร่งด้านตลาดองค์กรได้เป็นอย่างดี

ที่มา - CrackBerry

นอกจากนี้ DataViz ได้ประกาศยกเลิกการพัฒนา Documents To Go บน webOS ด้วยเหตุผลว่าไม่ได้รับการสนับสนุนจาก Palm มากนัก และมีโอกาสทางธุรกิจต่ำลงเมื่อ webOS เริ่มมีปัญหาในช่วงหลัง - preCentral

eldavojohn writes "MSNBC spoke with the senior producer of a new stereoscopic 3D game called 'Killzone 3' and highlighted problems they are trying to solve with being one of the first FPS 3D games for the PS3. The team ran into serious design problems like where to put the cross hairs for the players (do they constantly hover in front of your vision?) and what to do with any of the heads up display components. Aside from the obvious marketing thrown in at the end of the article (in a very familiar way), there is an interesting point raised concerning normalized conventions in all video games and how one ports that to the new stereoscopic 3D model--the same way directors continue to grapple with getting 3D right. Will 3D games be just as gimmicky as most 3D movies? If they are, at least Guerrilla Games is at least making it possible for the player to easily and quickly switch in and out of stereoscopic 3-D while playing."

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LENA Wilson, the chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, will tomorrow preside over the launch of a new group aimed at growing the number of women taking leading roles in the technology sector. The Scotland Women in Technology (SWiT) group, backed by Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP, Scottish Enterprise and Oracle, aims to redress the declining number of women making a career in IT. It is estimated that this may be one reason why Scotland currently lags the UK by 30 per cent on productivity gains derived from the IT industry. The group is the brainchild of Silka Patel, an executive assistant at Cisco. She said: "This sector is a brilliant place for women to work and progress, yet we are very much in the minority. "With this group we hope to encourage more women into this exciting area, to develop their skills and so maximise the contribution to our economy," she added.

A software engineer who had worked for the security services has been jailed for a year after he was found guilty of trying to sell classified information. Daniel Houghton, 25, of Hoxton in east London, pleaded guilty to two offences under the Official Secrets Act. While working at MI6 as a £23,000 per year software engineer he copied over 7,000 files onto a USB memory stick containing staffing lists for the security services operating abroad. Houghton tried to sell the data to the Dutch secret service for a million pounds but the buyers got in contact with the British security services when they received the offer, initially believing it to be a hoax. In bugged and recorded negotiations Houghton was bargained down to £900,000 but when he handed over the files on March 1 he was immediately arrested while carrying the cash in a suitcase.

There's an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that enables simple data-stealing attacks by Web-based attackers and could lead to an attacker hijacking a user's authenticated session on a third-party site. The flaw, which a researcher said may have been known since 2008, lies in the way that IE 8 handles CSS style sheets. The vulnerability can be exploited through an attack scenario known as cross-domain theft, and researcher Chris Evans originally brought the problem to light in a blog post in December. At the time, all of the major browsers were vulnerable to the attack, but since then, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera all have implemented a simple defense mechanism. Mozilla was the last to fix the issue, in July. But Microsoft has not yet implemented a fix for the vulnerability, and Evans on Friday posted a message to the Full Disclosure mailing list pointing out this fact and linking to a benign demo site. Microsot Security Response Center officials said they are aware of the issue and are investigating it.

The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday. The 93-page TSA operating manual details procedures for screening passengers and checked baggage, such as technical settings used by X-ray machines and explosives detectors. It also includes pictures of credentials used by members of Congress, CIA employees and federal air marshals, and it identifies 12 countries whose passport holders are automatically subjected to added scrutiny. TSA officials said that the manual was posted online in a redacted form on a federal procurement Web site, but that the digital redactions were inadequate. They allowed computer users to recover blacked-out passages by copying and pasting them into a new document or an e-mail.

While acknowledging the importance of HTML5, Microsoft stressed this week that its Silverlight rich Internet technology extends the Web beyond what HTML5 allows. Standards-based multimedia features offered by HTML5 have taken the spotlight lately from proprietary technologies, such as Silverlight and Adobe's Flash. But Silverlight still has a purpose in the wake of HTML5's emergence, said Microsoft's Brad Becker, director of product management for Developer Platforms, in a blog entry entitled "The Future of Silverlight." "On the Web, the purpose of Silverlight has never been to replace HTML; it's to do the things that HTML (and other technologies) couldn't in a way that was easy for developers to tap into. Microsoft remains committed to using Silverlight to extend the Web by enabling scenarios that HTML doesn't cover," Becker said. "From simple 'islands of richness' in HTML pages to full desktop-like applications in the browser and beyond, Silverlight enables applications that deliver the kinds of rich experiences users want."

Malaysia has formed a taskforce to scour the internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, in the latest action against new media. The Home Ministry's deputy secretary-general for security, Abdul Rahim Mohamad Radzi, said the unit would involve the police, internet regulators, the Information Ministry and the Attorney-General's chambers. ''It is a mechanism that will co-ordinate these various agencies to help monitor what is being said in cyberspace and to take action against those that are trying to stoke racial tensions.'' Mr Abdul Rahim said the group would also monitor alternative and mainstream media. ''There is a disturbing trend appearing on the internet where some people are inciting racial unrest and causing confusion and this will damage the peace we have in the country.''

The pro-copyright lobby group behind the Accidental Pirate website has changed a legal clause that allowed it to disclose the personal information of users to any third party. iTnews reported earlier this week that the clause had raised suspicions that the site - billed as a means to educate users about piracy habits - was a ‘honeypot' or trap to implicate respondents in illicit activity, with the information handed to law enforcement for anti-piracy investigation. Users had been asked to take a quiz to determine whether or not they were an "accidental pirate" before supplying personal information to win a $5 DVD rental voucher. The offending clause was edited on Wednesday but the change still appeared to allow third-party disclosure beyond the firms listed. "The Promoter and Ezy Entertainment Marketing Pty Ltd collects personal information in order to conduct the promotion and may, for this purpose, disclose such information to third parties including The Furnace (an advertising and marketing agency helping with the conduct of the promotion), and may also disclose the details of any winners to the NSW lottery authority," the new clause stated.

If you don't like Apple's arrogant presence and its mindset that being its customer is a privilege, you're not alone. Music companies are very eager to get on Google's side as it seems more likely that a new service will launch on Android. In a Los Angeles Times blog post, Warner Music Group senior adviser Jac Holzman was quoted as saying, "Google has smart people, and they recognize record companies need to be more than just suppliers. The attitude that you bring to the table is clearly the first step." An Android music store has been rumored before and seems to be inevitable as Google continues to expand throughout all sorts of media. The search giant is also working on emerging into social games as well.

When Mark Hurd resigned unexpectedly from Hewlett-Packard last month he found an outspoken supporter in the form of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. It appears now that Hurd may end up working for Ellison, according to a report Saturday in the Wall Street Journal. Hurd is in talks with Oracle to take a top executive position at the company, the Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. It wasn't clear what job he might take but it would not be that of the CEO, since Ellison does not plan to leave that position, the report said. Such a move could make sense for Oracle, which acquired Sun Microsystems earlier this year and has battled to return its hardware division to a profit. Hurd was known for making HP leaner and more efficient and its profits increased sharply under his watch. The Journal cautioned that the talks with Hurd could fall through and that it's possible no agreement will be reached.

Two weeks ago you'd have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key. Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own. Today, there's no need for any of that -- you can hack your PS3 with a tethered smartphone. Working closely with the PSGroove team, hacker Kakaroto adapted the same jailbreak to the Nokia N900, and the open-source community lost no time porting it to the Palm Pre as well. If the videos after the break are any indication, both versions work just as well as the original, and you too can get your game on with downloads and detailed instructions at the source links below. Sadly, the aforementioned Australian importer OzModChips is a casualty of this little story, with all its shipments of the PS Jailbreak dongle seized (and the item subject to injunction) by an Australian court, but we suppose knowing its product has enabled the hardware hacking community thus might somewhat soften the blow.

Web servers have become commonplace on just about every hardware device from printers to switches. Such an addition makes sense as all devices require a management interface and making that interface web accessible is certainly more user friendly than requiring the installation of a new application. Despite typically being completely insecure, such web servers on printers/scanners are generally of little interest from a security perspective, even though they may be accessible over the web, due to network misconfigurations. Yes, you can see that someone neglected to replace the cyan ink cartridge but that's not of much value to an attacker. However, that's not always the case. I was recently looking at a newer model of an HP printer/scanner combo and something caught my eye. HP has for some time, embedded remote scanning capabilities into many of their network aware scanners, a functionality often referred to as Webscan. Webscan allows you to not only remotely trigger the scanning functionality, but also retrieve the scanned image, all via a web browser. To make things even more interesting, the feature is generally turned on by default with absolutely no security whatsoever.