Paris wants blanket wireless Internet cover by the end of 2007, helping to make it the most connected capital city in the world, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said on Tuesday.

Under a new plan, the city hopes to set up 400 free WiFi access points next year and allow Internet service providers to install antennae on strategically-located public property.

Source: Reuters

A satellite-based system to be built in the next five to six years at a cost of Rs 1,600 crores will enable New Delhi to provide positioning, navigation and timing services across the country and neighbouring areas, officials said.

Addressing an industry meet on satellite navigation and talking to reporters later, G Madhavan Nair, Secretary in the Department of Space, said the Indian Regional Navigation System will consist of a constellation of satellites and a large ground network.

Source: hindu.com

You don’t need to look very hard to find outraged Windows customers who have been branded pirates by Windows Genuine Authentication. And a hefty number of them claim they’re being unfairly targeted, with legitimate Windows copies that are being tagged as stolen or pirated.

Microsoft said that 20% of all Windows users who fail the WGA validation test are not using leaked or stolen keys.

Source: ZDNet

Google Page Creator, the site building and hosting service offered by Google and launched this year, is now allowing the implementation of Google AdSense ads into user sites; which will lead to some bonus revenue for Google Pages users while also helping Google to monetize their service.

Source: searchenginejournal

A German inventor has developed an idea for “password-protected bullets”. In a US patent, Hebert Meyerle outlines the concept of a modified cartridge that would only fire once a correct authentication signal is received. A transponder with matching codes needs to be worn in a ring on a shooter’s firing hand before a gun using the invention would be capable of discharging a bullet.

Source: TheRegister

New vulnerability in Internet Explorer has been discovered, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the HTML Help ActiveX control (hhctrl.ocx) when handling the “Image” property. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption by setting an overly long string multiple times for the property.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system running Windows XP SP2 with Internet Explorer 6.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Security web site Secunia rates this vulnerability as Highly critical and recommends to disable the “Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins”

AMD has posted a software tool that it claims improves the video performance of games running on its dual-core Athlon 64 FX processor. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer compensates for quirks in the CPU’s time stamp system which can impact frame rates.

Source: TheRegister

A group of major music companies are preparing to sue Yahoo China over complaints the popular search engine violates copyrights by linking to Web sites that offer pirated music, the group’s chairman said Tuesday.

“Yahoo China have been blatantly infringing our members’ rights,” said John Kennedy of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries. “We are taking the preliminary steps required by Chinese law for filing a lawsuit.”

IFPI says Yahoo China links to outside sites with unlicensed MP3 downloads of hundreds of songs.

Source: AP