MSN just came up with a little game at Start.com.

Start is the new page MSN is working on, the concept is quite closed to My Google released few weeks ago. Therefore if you go to Start.com and answer correctly to all their questions (5 of them) you will get the URL of the latest development stage for start.com.

MSN is playing around on a dynamic homepage where you can drag and drop modules to place them wherever you want them to appear, something similar to My Google. The page displays the traditional News, Stocks, Weather plus what seems to be personalized RSS Feeds.

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.

Quoted:
“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

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.

Read More At thepcsecurity.blogspot.com

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

Last week, the giant processor maker, Intel announced will be partnering with Apple to supply them processors beginning in mid 2006.

On Friday, June 10, 2005, Intel said they would collaborate on several areas in support of mobile WiMAX technology, including mobile clients, network infrastructure and market development. For mobile devices and notebook platforms, Intel and Nokia said they would work closely on both client and base station strategies to help deploy a WiMAX network infrastructure.

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“Even though we and the industry as a whole are at the early stages of discovery and development, the industry momentum is remarkable. To have innovators like Nokia working to bring WiMAX and other broadband wireless technologies to the masses is very encouraging,” said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s mobility group.

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Intel & Nokia Work On Mobile WiMAX