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TODAY ON iTnews.com.au:    Pirates spoof Vista's enterprise activation   HP settles California 'pretexting' charges, pays US$14.5 million   New service lets PC users sell spare CPU cycles   Global semiconductor sales surge to US$261bn   SurfControl says it's a potential acquisition target   Execs unsure if tech gadgets unsettle work-life balance   Soft database sales could dent Oracle, analysts warn   Sony spins off next-gen field-emission displays   Consumer electronics market soars to new heights   Spam soars, expect worse in 2007   Huawei claims success with mobile video trial   IEEE announces next-gen Ethernet standard   AI pioneer Seymour Papert in coma   Critical bug in legacy Windows Media Players   No iPhone at MacWorld, says rumour mill
Monday, 11th December 2006
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This morning, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has announced that he has reached a US$14.5 million settlement with HP.

Also making news, pirates are circulating a hack that lets them activate counterfeit copies of Vista using a spoofed server that Microsoft relies on to make sure enterprises switch on the new operating system.

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Pirates spoof Vista's enterprise activation
The software spoofs a Key Management Service server, one of the two technologies that Microsoft debuted last month that let businesses activate a large number of copies of Windows Vista.


HP settles California 'pretexting' charges, pays US$14.5 million
Most of the money from the settlement will establish a new fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights, while HP promises to adopt corporate governance reforms.


New service lets PC users sell spare CPU cycles
An Italian programmer is trying to create a system that will pay PC users to rent out their systems to supercomputer-like distributed computing projects.


Global semiconductor sales surge to US$261bn
2006 worldwide revenues up 11 percent.


SurfControl says it's a potential acquisition target
Security vendor SurfControl issued a statement Thursday saying an unnamed firm has expressed interest in possibly acquiring the company.


Execs unsure if tech gadgets unsettle work-life balance
A new survey finds that executives are split on whether tech tools such as PDAs and smartphones make staying in touch with work more convenient at the expense of personal and family time.


Soft database sales could dent Oracle, analysts warn
Oracle investors are assuming the crash position in anticipation of the company's upcoming second-quarter financial results after several sources warned that Oracle will significantly fall short of its technology division (i.e., database) sales expectations.


Sony spins off next-gen field-emission displays
Sony will carve out its field emission display (FED)technology as a separate company, choosing OELD as the next-generation display technology.


Consumer electronics market soars to new heights
Market booming thanks to games consoles and TVs.


Spam soars, expect worse in 2007
A huge increase in the number of spam botnets and a major jump in the use of both image- and document-based spam have caused the volume of spam to increase 143% this year..


Huawei claims success with mobile video trial
Chinese firm brings streaming video to Europe.


IEEE announces next-gen Ethernet standard
Starts work on 100Gb per second Ethernet.


AI pioneer Seymour Papert in coma
Papert, a key figure in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, was in Hanoi to deliver the keynote address at an academic meeting. He was injured when he was struck by a motorbike.


Critical bug in legacy Windows Media Players
The vulnerability in Media Player 9 and 10 will let a malicious .asx-formatted playlist, if opened by an unsuspecting user, completely compromise the machine.


No iPhone at MacWorld, says rumour mill
With Apple's annual MacWorld Expo in San Francisco just a month away, the rumours are focusing on what Steve Jobs will announce in his keynote address.
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