Finally we have a new version of Yahoo Messenger and it is available for download.



There is nothing special coming out but there are though a few useful features.
The thing that seemed the coolest to me is the new embedding objects feature which allows you to embed into the chat window, movies, images and maps, as you can see in the pictures.



More than that, you can now synchronize the playback of online videos and even share Flickr photos in a slideshow.
The interface is redesigned but the most useful feature now is the raised limit per transfer at 2GB, each file being automatically scanned with Norton AntiVirus.



At last we have the new cute skins, VoIP call forwarding, and the possibility to send SMS to others’s phones with the use of the desktop client.

Update November 7: After installing version 9 i started to have a lot of problems.
While writing in Word the mouse cursor was disappearing from time to time and i had to click over and over again to put it back and continue my sentences. Same was happening while chatting on Yahoo Messenger, but here was worse, the cursor disappeared and the program was getting blocked for a minute.
Finally i have uninstalled version 9 and got back on Yahoo Messenger 8. Things went back to normal.

Tell us about your experience!

This is a recent true story that goes like this:

Craiglist is a website dedicated to … well anything.
You can find there information related to jobs, services, goods, housing, romance, local activities, and even advices, all covering 450 cities worldwide.
What started back in 1995 as an email list of SF events became one of the largest online communities.
Craig Newmark is the founder.

Recently a 24-year old girl from Minnesota answered a nanny job advertised on the website, and later she was found killed in her car, more exactly in the truck.
Police has found her Friday night in a park, at 15 miles south of Minneapolis.
Last time Katherine Ann Olson was seen alive was on Thursday when she left to meet a couple who recently relocated to the area and needed a babysitter.

The suspect for placing the ad on the website is a 19-year old man and was caught by the police at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where he worked.
According to the police, Olson had previously posted other 2 announcements from which one in Turkey, searching for nannies.



Being a very large online community, it can’t be controlled totally and so anyone can post any kind of announcement.
You can encounter even adult services and lots of scams, but it is the first time a murder happens.

Craig Newmark regrets what happened and had expressed his sincere condolences saying that “This is a real tragedy and we're more eager than ever to help deal with the bad guy."

It seems that in the UK schools Microsoft makes the rules when talking about the software used on PCs, like the Office Suite.

In order to prevent the use of software coming from its competitors, Microsoft made agreements with the government to establish the essential points of academic licensing.

The business practices used by the company raised a lot of concerns because the schools under these deals are obligated to pay fees for every PC they use without taking into account the fact that not all of these devices run software from Microsoft.

On the other hand, the schools don’t take action against this because Microsoft is offering tempting discount plans and so no one objects.

Recently, someone from the UK government started to advice schools’ representatives not to sign deals with Microsoft anymore, informing all about the company’s strange practices.

AMD confirmed the release on 19 November of its graphics chip code-named RV670. The exact brand-name under which this chipset will make its entry on the market is still a subject of debate.

Specialists assume that the name might be Radeon HD 2950 Pro, with a 55nm version of the R600 series chipset. These cards will be aimed at the mainstream market and they will come in two versions, researcher Doug Freedman mentioned from a very accurate source: "Gladiator will run at 825 MHz while Revival will clock in at 750MHz. The main difference between the two will be Gladiator's adoption of GDDR4 memory and an improved memory interface (2.4GHz vs. 1.8GHz). The G92 (from Nvidia) is likely to launch at 600 MHz and 900MHz."

This might be a very good opportunity for the average users to upgrade their systems in order to bring out the eye-candy effects from Windows Vista and also to enjoy new performance capabilities in 3D applications, like video-games, and according to our sources, this might very well be a DirectX 10.1 graphics chipset.

Hitachi invented a chip with Radio-frequency identification, a remotely data retrieving technology, and called it the µ-Chip.
It uses a wireless semiconductor integrated circuit storing an ID number in its memory.

This type of chip measures just 0.15 mm x 0.15 mm x 0.0075 mm, 0.4mm square, meaning more little that grain of rice, and looks like in the picture.
The µ-Chip has 128 bits of ROM memory, meaning the ID number that can be stored can have maximum 38 digits.

It is not as complicated as a standard IC chip but its applicability could be larger because of its tiny dimension.
More than that, its memory can be written only when it is manufactured and impossible to change later, so, if embedded, it would be perfect for authentication of cash money for example, or even clothing.

The frequency it uses is of 2.45GHz and besides that its Read Only Memory cannot be written or read, it has also anti-collision capabilities.
In conclusion, the number stored in could be used individually to identify trillions of trillions of objects without duplication.

We hope that Hitachi’s chip will soon have a commercial application.