April 22nd Show Recap & Links!

The gangs all here and its a packed show! Geek Break starts running Monday, Feature: Move Over MySpace. Ted – “The Shareware Man” – Rozelsky is May’s guest speaker for the Central NY PC Users Group and will be on the air, website of the week, news and other "stuff" (thats geek speak) that can fit into 1 hour!

Download:
http://www.thetechnologygeeks.com/shows/042206.mp3

Links mentioned:
Is your bank secure:
http://www.securewebbank.com/loginssluse.html
Flat Tim:
http://www.flattim.com
Tim's MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/AtT12dE
Technology Geeks MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/thetechnologygeeks

Feature:
Move Over MySpace!!
· The first serious competition is coming from of all companies AOL!
· What’s MySpace all about?
· We will teach you all about it and even create a MySpace site that you can visit live on the show.

Don’t forget to listen to us LIVE on the web at:
o For Real Player go to http://www.WFBL.Com
o For Wav format go to http://www.radioshowlinks.com.
o Check out our past shows on our website –http://www.thetechnologygeeks.com

Jim’s GEEK OF THE WEEK SOFTWARE PICK:

Website of the week.
http://www.flattim.com

Announcements:

o Mike’s Feature – Geek Break starts running Monday!!!!
o Ted – “The Shareware Man” – Rozelsky, May’s guest speaker for the Central NY PC Users Group will be on air to talk about the upcoming CNYPCUG meeting being held on Monday, May 1, 2006 at the Liverpool Public Library beginning @ 6PM.
o May’s topic is “Barbarians at the Gates – Defending Your Digital Doman” - Ted –“The Shareware Man” – Rozelsky will take you on a security tour of your CyberCastle. You’ll learn: - where to look to discover your digital vulnerabilities. – How to identify the holes in your armaments – and plug them. – Plus much more.
o Members & non-members are requested to register to attend all meeting. Registration forms are available online at http://www.cnypcug.org/reserve.

o Of course your calls at 421-9325.

News Items Mentioned:
Seagate readies 750GB desktop hard drive
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/21/seagate_750gb_barracuda/
Seagate is on the verge of announcing a 3.5in desktop hard drive with a capacity of 750GB - increasing the Barracuda 7200.10 line's maximum storage space by 50 per cent. Seagate hasn't formally announced the 750GB model, but it is already beginning to appear on the company's marketing material.
The drive runs at 7,200rpm and contains 16MB of cache memory. Like other models in the line, it has an average latency of 4.2ms. Seagate will offer the HDD with a choice of Ultra ATA 100, 1.5Gbps SATA or 3Gbps SATA interfaces. The Serial ATA versions both support Native Command Queuing (NCQ).

US calls for online porn restrictions
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2154465/calls-online-porn-restrictions
The US government is seeking to adopt new legislation that will increase fines for providers who knowingly fail to report child pornography on their networks.
The new law also seeks to make it more difficult to inadvertently stumble on pornographic images while surfing the web.
"Sadly, the internet age has created a vicious cycle in which child pornography continually becomes more widespread, more graphic, and more sadistic, using younger and younger children," said US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a speech at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The new legislation proposes fines of $150,000 for service providers which knowingly fail to report child pornography on their networks, and a $300,000 fine for each additional violation.
It also seeks to force porn sites to present visitors with a welcome page devoid of any sexually explicit images to prevent unwanted exposure.

Police: MySpace foils school shooting
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/plot.foiled.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
5 teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after a message authorities said warned of a gun attack appeared on the Web site MySpace.com.
Sheriff's deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages in the bedroom of one suspect, Sheriff Steve Norman said. Authorities also found documents about firearms and references to Armageddon in two suspects' school lockers.
"What the resounding theme is: They were actually going to do this," Norman said.
Four suspects were arrested at their homes; the fifth was taken into custody at the school. None of the names of the teens, ages 16-18, were released.

Oregon Man Fined $84K In Spyware Case
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186100351&subSection=All+Stories
An Oregon man was fined $84,000 for scamming users with bogus security warnings that led them to a phony anti-spyware program, the Washington state attorney general said Tuesday.
In January, both Microsoft Corp. and Attorney General Rob McKenna filed lawsuits against Secure Computer of White Plains, N.Y. for allegedly selling the bogus anti-spyware program Spyware Cleaner. Three men were also charged with advertising the software: Zhijian Chen, of Portland, Ore.; Seth Traub, of Portsmouth, N.H.; and Manoj Kumar, from Maharashtra, India.
Chen is the first to be penalized in the broader case, and also holds the dubious honor of being the first defendant nailed by Washington state's 2005 Computer Spyware Act.
After admitting to breaking the 2005 law, as well as the state's Consumer Protection Act, Chen was told to pay $84,000 in fines and restitution for promoting Spyware Cleaner.
Chen used the Windows "Net send" command, which is typically used by network administrators to broadcast messages to employees such events as upcoming server downtime, to put pop-ups on users' machines that mimicked official warnings. Users duped by the bogus message who clicked on the embedded link were directed first to Chen's page, then to Secure Computer's own site.

Earnings alerts:
http://news.com.com/Earnings+alert+Yahoo+meets+expectations/2030-1014_3-5104085.html?tag=cd.top
Google sees revenue rise, beats expectations. First-quarter revenue rises nearly 80 percent and, along with an increase in profit, beats analyst estimates.
Hynix sees semiconductor profits plummet. South Korean chipmaker attributes 31 percent drop in profits to a decline in chip prices and a strong Korean won.
SAP (The world's biggest maker of software applications for business ) license sales soar, profits disappoint Shares fall on news that earnings lagged expectations, but analysts and banks still positive on company's prospects.
Nokia earnings, sales beat all expectations. Strong demand in emerging markets such as China helps boost profit and revenue; multimedia phones play starring roles.
Intel scrapes by in first quarter. Intel hits its number but PC sales are slowing and inventories are up.
Apple misses on revenue, but earnings strong. Analysts expected a little more revenue, but results are in line with Mac maker's predictions and earnings higher than expected.
Qualcomm profit, revenue increase. Demand for cell phone chips and technology licenses help increase profit by 34 percent; per-share earnings in line with estimates.
eBay's revenue growth slows. Rise of 35 percent marks a slackening in pace, as auction giant sees first-quarter profit dip.

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