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Daily Tech Hotlinks for 29-June-2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows virus, Beastie Boys, Flickr, EMI, DRM, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows Live Folders
– Virus-creators are getting relevant and timely, by releasing a worm disguised as a leaked copy of the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows novel, due to rear its cloaked head on July 21st. Brilliant things happen to your PC once infected, including the appearance of new Windows users named after characters in the books, and evil threats against J.K. Rowling.
– Proving that the end is nigh, and soon even Michael Moore will be cashing in his chips, the Beastie Boys have – gasp! – created an official Flickr account. Stay tuned for their official Tapatap account!…
Beautiful Katamari game exclusive to Xbox 360?
Those rumours that the next Katamari Damacy game, Beautiful Katamari, would be rolled out across all platforms? Well, let’s just say it’s a sad day for the Ninty and Sony fanboys amongst us, as it’s now been confirmed that the next game in the cult-series will be exclusive to the Xbox 360, and may just be an Xbox Live download.
As fellow Shiny site Xboxer pointed out, if the game…
Vodafone launch "Mobile Internet" service
Vodafone UK has announced its new “Vodafone Mobile Internet” service, whereby the Vodafone live! portal will now provide access to mobile-optimised versions of popular web services including Google, MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and Instant Messaging from Microsoft and Yahoo!
It comes together with new tariffs that include a ‘data pack’ allowing users to download up to 120MB of data for £7.50 per month, or a daily charge of £1 for 500K, with no further charge unless the day’s usage exceeds 15MB.
Lookit, lookit! Pictures of new mazes for Pac-Man World Championship on Xbox 360 Live
We wouldn’t normally devote so much time and energy (ok, minutes that could be best used reading about Larry David splitting with his wife, and googling whether he likes brunette technology bloggers or not) to writing about the Pac-Man World Championship game which became available on Xbox 360’s Live Arcade this morn, but frankly…
Chomp chomp chomp: Pac-Man Championship Edition coming to Xbox Live Arcade
That rumour I hinted at earlier today regarding Microsoft and Pac-Man? Just two minutes ago it was announced that together Microsoft and Namco Bandai…
Microsoft admit Live OneCare should not have been rolled out
ZDNet managed to scoop an interview at CeBIT with a senior manager at Microsoft who admitted that Live OneCare, the consumer security product, should not have been launched when it was, being far from perfect and having pieces missing. The…
Microsoft's OneCare anti-virus software scraps email messages
It's one thing for an over-zealous email spam filter to incorrectly identify legitimate emails as spam, and move them into a separate folder, but it's something else when anti-virus software deletes existing messages. Microsoft has admitted that its new AV…
Microsoft's Live OneCare and McAfee software fails to secure Vista
Independent research released last week suggests that several of pieces of anti-virus software, including Microsoft's own latest offering, fail to fully protect Vista users. Virus Bulletin, together with some Oxfordshire-based security researchers, tested 15 anti-virus packages that claim to be…
Windows Live OneCare launches internationally
Though it had a lower profile than Vista, a major release of Windows Live OneCare launched last week in 17 countries including the UK. The software package provides a unified virus and spyware scanner, flexible file backup options, and support…
Microsoft could miss out on catching Google due to poor Live branding
Microsoft's poor rollout of the "Live" brand may well have hurt its chances at catching Google in the search engine and online applications space. David Smith, an analyst at Gartner, said that the Live branding was confusing to users, with…
