The new Sony Ericsson S600i which launched today, June 14, 2005, will be targeting youth audience who is looking for features to enhance the lifestyles and deliver maximum fun and excitement in an ultra stylish package.

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”The Sony Ericsson S600 offers a maxed out feature set to satisfy the daring fun-seekers,” says Jan Wäreby, Corporate Executive, Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing of Sony Ericsson. “We have gone all out to provide excellent communication including Internet browsing, great music with stereo speakers, sensational widescreen gaming, quality still imaging and video capturing and loads of personalization options. The phone will appeal to young adults with busy social lives and a desire to express themselves in multiple ways.”

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New Sony Ericsson S600i

Microsoft Corp said on Friday, June 10, 2005, they are interested in offering an online music subscription service. However, at the moment, Micorsoft has nothing much to share yet.

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“We are actively investigating the subscription model, but we don’t have anything to share today,” Christine Andrews, lead product manager of Microsoft’s MSN Internet division said, “Once we are ready to talk more, we’ll let you know.”

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Microsoft Will Offer Online Music Subscription Service

Just days after the al-Qaida leader committing suicide trojan email, a spam email claiming that Michael Jackson has attempted suicide has been spreading across the Internet, according to Internet security firm Sophos.

E-mails with the fake news contain a Trojan horse that infects a system if a user clicks on a link to find out more about Michael Jackson’s suicide.

Read More In thepcsecurity.blogspot.com

While the Xbox 360 is expected to ship with a 20GB hard drive as standard, the coming new release Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) will be equipped with a harddisk running pre-installed Linux OS.

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SONY COMPUTER Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi has suggested the upcoming Playstation 3 will come equipped with a hard disk. And the hard disk may come with Linux pre-installed.

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Playstation 3 Pre-install Linux

On Friday, June 10, 2005, anti-virus vendor F-Secure announced a variant of the Cabir worm aimed at Nokia smartphones pretends to be legitimate anti-virus software.

The Skulls.L trojan is a variant of the Skulls.C trojan except it masquerades as an illegally copied version of F-Secure’s Mobile Anti-Virus program. The trojan is aimed at smartphones based on the Nokia Series 60 platform, which is based on the Symbian OS.

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On Friday, June 10, 2005, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) executives said at a meeting with financial analysts in New York that they plan to deliver a package of security, virtualization and lower-power processing to its AMD64 platform by next year, plus a new core, faster Hyper Transport and DDR3 support by 2007.

The following are the brief product road map that I extracted out from the source:-

Server

In 2006:
• Add its Pacifica virtualization technology and Presidio security technology into Opteron
• Begin shipping with Hardware RAID 5 technology and Serial SCSI, in addition to PCI Express 2 and a fault-tolerant I/O

In 2007:
• Add multicore capability, an L3 Cache and I/O virtualization.

Desktop

In 2006:
• Add its Pacifica virtualization technology and Presidio security technology into desktop processor
• Deliver dual-core processors with support for DDR2 memory, enhanced graphics technology called Aero Glass and lower-power performance.

In 2007:
• Add new core to the desktop processors, as well as DDR3 support and larger caches.

Mobile Processor

In 2007:
• Introduce WiMax wireless support and six-hour battery life to the vendor’s Turion 64 processor