PlaysForSure officially dead
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Microsoft is getting rid of the PlaysForSure brand used to identify digital media devices and services that are compatible with one another, and rolling the requirements into its Certified for Vista program.
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No games available for your teams. Personalize your Sports Scores to display additional games of interest.
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EVE Offline EVE Online, the massively multi-player online Sci-Fi game, shut down for ten hours yesterday (Friday), after discovering a security breach.â¦
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One day after Symantec&#160;researchers discovered software that attacked a critical&#160;unpatched vulnerability in RealNetworks&#39; media player, Real says that a fix for the issue is imminent.&quot;Real has created a patch for RealPlayer 10.5 and RealPlayer 11 that addresses the vulnerability identified by Symantec,&quot; wrote RealNetworks General Manager of Product Development Russ Ryan, in a Friday blog posting. &quot;Real will make this patch available to users via this blog and our security update page later today.&quot;Users of RealOne Player, RealOne Player v2, and RealPlayer 10 should upgrade to the 10.5 version of the product or the RealPlayer 11 beta code and should install the patch, Ryan said.The attack exploits a flaw in an ActiveX browser helper object, software that RealPlayer employs to help users who are experiencing technical difficulties, so the PC must be using the Internet Explorer browser to be affected by this particular attack, Symantec said.The attack only works on Windows systems, RealNetworks said. Linux, Mac and RealPlayer 8 users are not affected.Attackers were using a complicated network of advertising Web sites to launch the attack from a Web site that has been spotted hosting malicious code several times over the past two years, Symantec said.&quot;The exploit itself is embedded in advertisements that were being served by 247realmedia.com,&quot; Symantec said in a note on its DeepSight threat management system. &quot;The redirection to the exploit page... was accomplished through an iFrame embedded in each advertisement.&quot;Iframe is an HTML command that allows developers to insert a second Web page into the page being viewed. It is often used by malware creators because these iFrame pages can be as small as 1 pixel, making them invisible to the naked eye.Users who do not have the patch can turn off ActiveScripting within IE as a workaround to the problem. Very technical users can also set kill bit on the Class identifier (CLSID) FDC7A535-4070-4B92-A0EA-D9994BCC0DC5 to disable the ActiveX control, Symantec said.&#160;
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Tycho:  I don't know why I get my hopes up reading shit about "broken street dates" online, I'm perpetually disappointed by the results.  I got a game on the actual ship date five years ago, and it's made me into some kind of Goddamned optimist.  There are scattered reports that people have picked them up, and you may invest your time in this way if you are desperate, but I apologize for wasting your time.  (CW)TB
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Tycho:  Gamespot is saying there's a reproducible crash in the new Tiger Woods for the 360, and that the Gamernet functionality doesn't work there either.  PS3 version sounds clean.    Next year, can you guys make sure you put your crash bugs into the demo, too?  It would really help the consumer make an educated decision.    It's so weird; we had problems with the last one, but it never occurred to us that the next one could be worse.  That is to say, I expect inertia.  I don't expect it to break before I even get the Goddamned thing home.      (CW)TB
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A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users.In a report published Thursday, StopBadware.org faults the latest version of RealPlayer for secretly installing its Rhapsody Player Engine during the RealPlayer installation.&quot;RealPlayer 11 does not disclose that it installs Rhapsody Player Engine, and does not remove the software when RealPlayer is uninstalled,&quot; Stopbadware says in the report.Rhapsody Player Engine is required to access RealNetwork&#39;s online music service. But because users are not told that they have installed the product it could become a liability, using up the computer&#39;s hard-drive space or processing power, or even creating a security risk for consumers if bugs are discovered in Rhapsody, said Maxim Weinstein, StopBadware&#39;s manager.Both RealPlayer 11 and the older RealPlayer 10.5 software are both considered &quot;badware,&quot; the report states.Real Player 10.5 suffers from a different issue, however. Users who download the software without filling out the RealNetworks product registration page end up with a piece of software called Message Center, which then proceeds to deliver ads to the user&#39;s computer. &quot;It&#39;s installing, essentially, a piece of adware without giving users information about that up front,&quot; Weinstein said.RealNetworks spokesman Ryan Luckin said a check-box on the registration page is used to notify users that Message Center would be installed. Users who clicked through the registration page without filling out any information would have the software installed.Although the issue was fixed in version 11 of the player, RealPlayer 10.5 is automatically downloaded via the Firefox browser&#39;s &quot;Missing Plug-in&quot; feature and is still widely used, Weinstein said.Until RealNetworks is up-front with users about what software they&#39;re actually downloading, StopBadware recommends that consumers avoid its media player.Luckin called the Rhapsody issue an oversight. &quot;The fact that when you uninstall RealPlayer we don&#39;t go back and uninstall Rhapsody is an oversight and is something we should address in the future,&quot; he said.A widely used alternative to Apple&#39;s QuickTime and Microsoft&#39;s Windows Media Player, RealPlayer has a history of making invasive changes to users&#39; computers. The Message Center software has come under fire in the past, and in 1999 computer security consultant Richard Smith discovered that the software was quietly sending information to RealNetworks servers.StopBadware&#39;s findings apply only to the Windows versions of RealPlayer&#39;s software, Weinstein said. RealPlayer also runs on other operating systems, including Mac OS X and Linux.Supported with funding from Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems, StopBadware evaluates software and warns consumers of products that engage in deceptive behavior, such as tracking user behavior or installing programs without telling consumers.Although RealPlayer 10.5&#39;s Message Center feature may be more noticeable and annoying, Weinstein said Real Networks should fix both problems as soon as possible. &quot;It&#39;s hard to say that one is worse,&quot; he said. &quot;They&#39;re really two sides of the same concept of just not telling users what&#39;s going on.&quot;
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You've uploaded warez onto the wrong server, buddy
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Service will stay when admins are at play CommVault today is adding a web-based subscription backup and troubleshooting service to its Simpana software suite.â¦
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Jeremy Schoemaker, who has been creating a side hobby of revealing MyBlogLog bugs over the past month, has been ironically banned from MyBlogLog. Jeremy posts on Shoemoney.com Since last night every page I visit on their site results in a 403 (Forbidden) error code. I have asked others and nobody else seems to get the error but [...]
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pk2000 writes &quot;Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce.&quot; &#39;Unfortunately, for now, we have made the decision to stop participating in UN/Cefact for business reasons and this serves as notification of our immediate
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Still no accounts, now a profit warning too...
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Greg Canessa explains his departure and the future of casual games. In Game|Life.
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Update Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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Tacit admission of defeat IFA 07 Sony will next year kill off its Connect digital music download service, Register Hardware has learned. Its Walkman products will instead Windows Media technology, the consumer electronics giant told its customers today.â¦
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Fun while it lasted The VMware orgasm officially ended Monday, as the virtualization software maker revealed that it could no longer match "the market's" lofty expectations.â¦
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Movie & video, book, images, software (games & program) and music cataloguer / database. Uses online web services (amazon, imdb, musicbrainz, freedb). Skinnable, highly customizable, reporting. Supports DVD, many audio & video file formats and Audio CD'.   Although I planned on releasing the production version at this moment I have decided against this. At the last moment I decided on changing the working of the online search drastically (see the change log for more information). As this is quite fundamental a second beta came to mind. Please help me testing in this release!   My thanks to the many persons emailing me, posting their issues in the forums and logging their bugs an request at Sourceforge.net!            Presented By     Play PSP Games Online at Thousands of T-Mobile HotSpot Locations Nationwide      Unleash the power of your PSP(r) system through thrilling online gaming against players from around the world.  And now - you can play PSP games online at thousands of T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide with six months of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service! www.playstation.com/    Ads by Pheedo