In a recent webcast Ben Shumansky, Technical account manager at Intel Corp, revealed that 64 Bit Centrino processor is expected to ship only on the second half of 2006 but Dual Core mobile CPU is expected to appear in Q1 of next year.

Unlike Intel, AMD already have 64 bit mobile Athlon processor available.

AOL’s Netscape division has released a minor update to its Firefox-based Web browser, which corrects an issue that caused XML rendering in Internet Explorer to break.

IE program manager Dave Massy called out Netscape last month for introducing the problem, which AOL has blamed on poor IE documentation, not a Netscape bug.

Along with the XML rendering problem, Netscape version 8.0.2 fixes some minor user agent string inconsistencies. The Firefox core of Netscape has not been upgraded, Weinstein told BetaNews.

Source: Beta News

America Online hosts more denial-of-service (DoS) spewing zombie PCs than any other ISP in the world, a report released Tuesday claimed. AOL thinks that’s just fine.

Prolexic, a Florida-based company that offers a DoS mitigation service, tracked attempted attacks over the last six months to rank ISPs. AOL topped the global and U.S. domestic lists, with machines that use it as their link to the Internet accounting for 5.3 percent of DoS attacks worldwide, and 11.7 percent of those conducted in the U.S.

“We’re the largest ISP on the planet,” Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for AOL, said Wednesday. “You’d expect us to have the most zombies.”

Weinstein based that take on a comparison of Prolexic’s numbers with the U.S. installed base of each ISP. Assuming JupiterResearch’s estimate of AOL membership rolls is on target at 21.7 million, America Online accounts for .54 percent of the total U.S. DoS attacks for each million subscribers. Comcast, on the other hand, has just 7.4 million users, but accounted for 10.7 percent of the DoS attacks, for a rate of 1.44 percent per million. Verizon, meanwhile, posted a per million rate of 1.9 percent.

“That’s three or four times as many attacks per million subscribers,” Weinstein argued. “The numbers show that AOL members are significantly less likely to have been compromised by a zombie. This is actually good news for our users.”

Source: TechWeb

Aiming to make search easier for users on the go, Google released Google Mobile Web Search on Thursday.

The new service points users of Internet-enabled mobile devices to a special index of Web pages that have been optimized by their publishers for the small screen. The XHTML-based service takes advantage of the alignments of text, graphics and tables that mobile-aware publishers have created to make them easier to navigate on a mobile phone.

Users can point their mobile browsers to Google’s search site, type in the query, then select Mobile Web (beta) as the search option.

Source: InternetNews.com

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An invention by a Norwegian start-up company allows consumers to use their everyday mobile phones to make free long distance Skype calls over the Internet, for the price of a local call.

The company, called IPdrum, said on Tuesday its software enables consumers to call their own personal computer (PC) from any standard mobile phone and set up a Skype call over the Internet. Skype calls can also be received on that cellphone.

Skype’s free software is used by 42 million individuals and the company is adding 150,000 new customers every day. The three-year-old firm, with offices in London and Luxembourg, said it was not involved in the project.

Skype users usually make phone calls sitting at front of their PC with an attached headset, limiting its usability.

The trick with IPdrum’s software is that a second mobile phone is connected to the PC with a small USB cable. IPdrum’s software uses that cellphone to set up a connection between the Skype application on the computer and the consumer’s cellphone in his or her pocket.

“You still need to pay for the local call between the two cellphones, but most mobile operators offer flat rates for local calls or selected numbers,” said IPdrum’s boss Kjetil Mathisen.

The product will be available worldwide by mid-August for a price between $60 and $80. The company has a distributor in Europe and is in talks with distributors in Asia and America.

Source: Reuters