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Wednesday, 14-November-2012 12:36:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Some new Telstra routers have hardcoded passwords and usernames, causing a security concern. Telstra has today issued a patch to fix the flaws and was contacting affected customers by phone and email to urge them to apply the fix. The firmware upgrade was the only means of removing the unchangeable default logins introduced by Netcomm into the BigPond Elite Wireless BroadBand Network Gateway line.
A Chinese website recently enjoyed a world record day of online sales. The figure is a world record - apparently, the closest competitor was 2011 Cyber Monday in the US, where total sales across all retailers was $1.25bn (comScore). Taobao already ranks 12 in the list of top global websites (Alexa), but the record sales mark a highwater-point for one of modern China's greatest success stories.
AMD's financial struggles continue, as they've hired a bank to advise how best to proceed. One of Silicon Valley's oldest chipmakers, AMD is laying off engineers and some analysts are concerned it may not find new markets for its chips in time to reverse a declining cash reserve. AMD's shares have fallen more than 60 percent this year, giving it a market value of about $1.4 billion. It also has long-term debt and capital lease obligations of about $2 billion.
Intel have launched some new Extreme components. Available today, the latest Extreme Edition Core™ i7-3970X processor and the Extreme Series Intel® Desktop Board DX79SR codenamed “Stormville” will unleash new PC performance for enthusiasts. This is Intel’s highest performance Extreme Edition processor with 6 Cores, Intel® Hyper-Threading technology, 15 MB cache, and 4 Channels of DDR3 memory. The Intel Desktop Board DX79SR, “Stormville” is our highest performance Extreme Series Board designed for premium features such as 8 memory DIMMs, 64GB of memory, 3 PCI*Express 3.0 x16 graphics connectors to support NVIDIA SLI* and AMD CrossfireX* configurations, and full complement of controls targeted for performance tuning and overclocking.
HotHardware report on the Crysis 3 Multiplayer Preview. Normally we don't cover games that are still in alpha. While beta coverage is typically a good example of how final gameplay is shaping up, alpha is a time when major design elements are still in flux. We're making an exception for Crysis 3's recent multiplayer test, however, to highlight just how gorgeous the game already is.
HardCoreWare have a Windows 7 vs Windows 8 Performance Guide. We could tell you how long each OS takes to copy a file, or extract an archive, or encode an MP3. But unless something is wrong, those operations will be purely limited by CPU or storage hardware speed, and will thus be identical no matter what OS you’re using. What we want to find out is how fast each OS will allow you to be productive, or how efficiently you can consume media.
Now that Steven Sinofsky has left Microsoft, Windows in the hands of Julie Larson-Green. Julie Larson-Green has been corporate vice president, Program Management, Windows Client. Larson-Green is no stranger to Windows: She has had between 1,200 and 1,400 program managers, researchers, content managers and other members of the Windows team reporting to her.
GIF is the word of the year for 2012, according to the Oxford American Dictionary. Really?! “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun,” Katherine Martin, head of the US dictionaries program at Oxford said in a statement. “The GIF has evolved from a medium for pop-cultural memes into a tool with serious applications including research and journalism, and its lexical identity is transforming to keep pace.”
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