Archive for March 26, 2008

Pictures of Paris Hilton have been leaked from her private Facebook account after holes in Facebook’s recent security upgrade were exploited.

A computer technician successfully went around Facebook’s privacy protection after finding flaws in the update, which was meant to give users greater control over who can see their details.

Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz).

The Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor L5400 Series takes advantage of Intel’s unique 45nm manufacturing capabilities and reinvented transistor formula that combine to boost performance and reduce power consumption in data centers.

The Quad-Core Intel Xeon L5400 processors are as much as 25 percent faster1 and have a 50 percent larger cache size than Intel’s previous-generation, low-voltage Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, while at the same time maintaining the low 50-watt thermal envelope.

The quad-core L5420 and L5410 processors run at 2.50 GHz and 2.33 GHz, respectively, and feature a unique 12 megabytes (MB) of on-die cache and dedicated 1333 MHz front side buses (FSB).

Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google announced they have agreed to formthe OpenSocial Foundation to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.

Yahoo!’s support of OpenSocial and role as a founding member of the new foundation are landmarks for the rapidly growing specification which will now offer developers the potential to connect with more than 500 million people worldwide.

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008.

The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction.

Microsoft signs a two-way deal with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook to provide its users with an opportunity to find contacts on the named social networking sites and vice versa.

Microsoft said this is a “two-way street” and has launched a new site, invite2messenger.net, where users can invite friends from those networks to chat on Live Messenger.