Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

Just when we thought AllofMP3.com had its last breath, they were resuscitated.  A Russian Court has told VISA that they must process payments for AllofMP3.com because the site is legal according to Russian law.  This now gives life back to the popular download site that was nearly gone.

According to ZeroPaid, “Visa’s decision to terminate its contract with Alltunes, MP3sparks, and AllofMP3 was illegal under Russian Law because they operate legally according to ROM, the Russian equivalent of the RIAA.”

So while AllofMP3 will presumably once again be able to accept payments, their site is still down. The RIAA has done a fine job up until now of cutting off every income source that they had, so this is big news. At least for them, they know that they have the Russian Government on their side.

Even more promising for AllofMP3 is that Visa has said that they won’t be appealing the decision that the government has made. After years of problems and court battles that slowly crippled AllofMP3, they may be back afterall.

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If you’ve been waiting (and waiting) for Plastic Logic‘s ultra-durable e-reader, you’ll have to stick with recycled paper for another dozen months or so. According to a company representative at the outfit’s CES kiosk, the device is now scheduled for an “early 2010” release, and as expected, final pricing has yet to be determined. Though, Mr. Joe (seriously, that’s his first name) did admit that it would be “competitively priced for rapid adoption” and that the company would be pushing hard to get this into corporations / enterprises. Don’t believe us? The full five minute interview is there in the read link.

[Thanks, credo]

Filed under: Displays

Plastic Logic e-reader not coming until early 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In theory, at least, we already knew that the Gigapan Imager was capable of some amazing things. This, friends, is proof. David Bergman strapped the device and his Canon G10 onto a rail at Barack Obama’s inauguration and snapped 220 images. After giving his MacBook Pro 6.5 hours to compile a two gigabyte image, he hosted it up on his website for people to zoom around on. We’ll caution you — you can easy kill a few hours checking out faces and such if you end up visiting the read link, but it’s totally worth it.

[Via Gadling]

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Gigapan Imager used to craft 1,474 megapixel image of Obama’s inauguration originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As mentioned in our previous posts, Sega Toys has done much to push the market for “adult toys” (no, not those). While the Homestar planetariums (shop link) and other ambient lighting devices are rather male-oriented, Sega and other companies are pushing equally towards the female market by producing bath and spa toys (such as a bath planetarium with a feminine edge).

In addition to the new Homestar Pro 2nd Edition and Homestar Globe announced last week, the ladies will have three new bath gadgets to relax with.

The Happy Savon and Orgel Spa both utilize a rounded whale shape with feminine colors. However, while the Savon is filling the bathroom with airborne bubbles, the Orgel is a pull-cord, 3-minute music box used for women to keep track of timings for different parts of the their bath/beauty routines.

A little more far-out, but in tune with other bath gadgets is the Hanabi de Spa, which basically means “spa by fireworks”. This bath fountain floats in the tub and creates firework-like effects by beaming multicolored LEDs into the spray. So, while the men are watching the stars in the living room and the ladies are using fireworks in the tub, will we ever need to leave the house again?

This article was written on November 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

How secure are the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 anti-phishing mechanisms after all? According to Paul Thurrott this is how great the built-in anti-phishing feature is for Firefox 2:

The built-in phishing protection is truly third-rate. There are two antiphishing options: Mozilla’s weak blacklist-based protection (yes, seriously) and Google’s antiphishing technology, which is both poorly rated and a privacy nightmare.

The result of the most recent test, by a consulting firm called SmartWare, pitted both Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 against 1,040 known phishing sites. Of those sites Firefox came out well above IE 7 as you can see in the chart above that I put together.

There aren’t many specifics on how the test was conducted and where the known phishing sites were retrieved from because that could make a large difference. Firefox 2 does use a blacklist which the browser downloads and compares URL’s to. That blacklist can be viewed by anyone which would make the test highly unfair if many of the sites were pulled from that list.

I’m not very fond of using a blacklist for detecting fraudulent sites but I do think it is an effective method. A combination of blacklist and heuristics would definitely be the best but the heuristics would take some time to properly develop to prevent false positives (identifying a clean site as fraudulent). It would also be nice if SmartWare would release some detailed information on how the tests were conducted and how the sites were picked so that we can ensure the results are unbiased.

News Source: Washington Post Blog [via Slashdot]

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