p2pnet headline roundup – Jan 12, 2009
EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009 – Educause
After months of spirited discussion, the EDUCAUSE community has identified their top five issues in teaching and learning with IT. Visit the project wiki to view the final list and then prepare to roll up your sleeves as the project moves from identifying the top challenges to building content around them. Make sure that you stay “in the know” by becoming a member of the Challenges Ning Network and lend your voice by volunteering for your project role.
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HTC To Launch New Touch Phone Says Telstra – SmartHouse
Mobile phone Company HTC is set to launch a brand new phone touch phone that will take on the Apple iPhone and the new Pre offering from Palm claims a senior executive of Telstra. The new touch phone has been developed using a combination of the Google Android operating system and Linux based software written by HTC. The screen is believed to be bigger than current offerings from HTC. Executives from Telstra who had met with Palm at the CES Show in Las Vegas to review their new Pre offering said that the new phone from HTC was “better and more functional” they said.
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Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology hacked in the alpha stage – Heise Online
At the Black Hat DC 2009 conference, Joanna Rutkoswka, rootkit expert and CEO of Invisible Things Lab (ITL), plans to show how to get around Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). She has already published a press release[icon:pdf] describing a two-stage attack on the safeguarded tboot boot loader which, however, is still only available in an alpha version. The security hole is currently of almost no practical importance, since there is scarcely a computer in use that takes advantage of TXT, despite it’s introduction nearly two years ago under the name LaGrande Technology. Still, Rutkoswka garnered much respect with her Blue Pill rootkit and her “Owning Xen” Xen attack, and the TXT hack points out fundamental vulnerabilities in Intel’s highly complex Trusted Execution concept.
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SKorean blogger arrested – Associated Press
A South Korean blogger pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges that he spread false economic information on the Internet, a news report said, in a case that drew heated debate over freedom of speech. The blogger, identified only by his surname Park, gained prominence among South Koreans because some of his dire predictions about the global economy, including the collapse of Lehman Brothers, later proved to be correct.
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HP says it will bar distributor’s sales in Iran – Mercury News
Hewlett-Packard said it has taken “further steps” to block the sale of its products in Iran, after a newspaper reported that a distributor was selling HP printers there despite a federal ban on exporting U.S. products to that country. The Palo Alto computer giant has declined to comment directly on a Dec. 29 report by The Boston Globe, which found that an independent distributor based in Dubai was selling HP printers widely in Iran. The Globe also cited a 1999 news report in which an HP executive appeared to acknowledge the sales, despite a federal trade ban that started four years earlier.
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[OT] Regrets and disappointments? Bush had a few – Reuters
President George W. Bush, winding up eight years in office, expressed regrets on Monday over policies blocked by Congress, weapons of mass destruction not found in Iraq and the harsh political tone in Washington. But he defended his actions during one of the biggest debacles of his presidency — Hurricane Katrina of 2005 — and said history would be his judge after he leaves the White House on January 20.
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