Another day, another 16:9 monitor from Acer

Hot on the heels of the announcement of its B Series of displays, Acer introduced another 23-incher, the H233H bmid.

As is becoming common with PC monitors this year, the Acer H233H has a 16:9 aspect ratio, as opposed to the 16:10 that most wide-screen monitors include.

According to Acer, the monitor's on-screen display (OSD) array excludes buttons in favor of a no button, touch-sensitive array.

The display also includes a 1,920 x 1,080 (1080p) native resolution, 300 candelas per square meters (cd/m2) brightness, a 160-degree vertical and horizontal viewing angle, a 5ms pixel response time, and two built-in speakers.

Connection options include VGA, DVI, and HDMI.

The H233H bmid is available now for a MSRP of US$229.99.

Via CNET Crave

Securing the Windows 7 beta

Despite the fact that security programs are often some of the toughest code to make work with a new operating system, Windows 7 already has several companies ready with products aimed at keeping it safe from attackers.

By comparison, only one antivirus firm--McAfee--had its security software commercially ready by the time Microsoft launched Vista for businesses in November 2006.

That said, it stands to reason, given that Microsoft was making far more dramatic changes to the operating system's underlying architecture in Vista than it is in Windows 7.
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They're not thumbdrives, they're handdrives (or something)

I'm really not sure who these hand-gesture thumbdrives are supposed to impress, but I kind of want one. But only kind of. I, being a rocker, would take the devil horns first. The other one's got a weird Dan Brown thing going on, and it kind of creeps me out.
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Worm spreading in many ways becoming an epidemic

A worm that spreads via removable devices, network shares, and weak administrator passwords--in addition to exploiting a critical Windows vulnerability--is spreading so fast it is becoming an epidemic, a security researcher said late last week.

The worm, known as Kido, Conficker, or Downadup, initially exploited MS08-067, a vulnerability considered critical for Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003. It was patched in October.

Newer variants have been configured to give the worm the ability to infect via other means to get onto the network, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior research engineer at Kaspersky Lab.

"The Kido authors are trying to get into these networks by infected removable devices and by using other Trojans to install Kido on a computer, which will then try to infect other machines on the local network," he said in an e-mail statement. The worm "is currently causing an epidemic."

An estimated 3.5 million computers are believed to be infected with the worm, ZDNet reports.

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Netbook in a keyboard

We've seen Netbook components used in small desktops. Heck, we've even come across desktop-grade performance in mini-laptops. But this may be the first time a Netbook has been cramped into a keyboard meant to replace a desktop.

Details on the exact specifications are vague, but the Eee PC Keyboard is a full-size input device which is likely based on the Atom chipset. Though it has a small 5-inch touchscreen on the right, we suspect its role is more of a secondary display as this system is meant to be hooked up to external screens via the wireless HDMI or VGA port. We do not know when, or if, this prototype will hit the market, but if it maintains its sleek profile, it will give other small-form-factor PCs a serious run for their money.

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