Yes I know that holidays are still a little far away and you all must be busy making plans for it but I feel this is the time you can have fun buying stuff to make your holidays and festivals even more enjoyable. There are lots of offers on BestBuy.com which you must look before looking else where. Gifts are something that anyone, no matter of what price makes both the person who give the gift and the one who takes the gift happy. Festival seasons are the best time to exchange gifts and spread happiness. It’s wise to give a gift which is useful to the person so you can buy daily used items like shoes etc from good online shops like Target. Why I am talking of online because you get a whole lot of products to choose from and you can get exclusive discounts using online coupons. Have a merry time buying gifts!

Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defense department. The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defense secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack. One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a “very high level of confidence…trending towards total certainty” that the PLA was responsible. Hackers from numerous locations in China spent several months probing the Pentagon system before overcoming its defenses, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Pentagon took down the network for more than a week while the attacks continued, and is to conduct a comprehensive diagnosis. “These are multiple wake-up calls stirring us to levels of more aggressive vigilance,” said Richard Lawless, the Pentagon’s top Asia official at the time of the attacks. The Pentagon is still investigating how much data was downloaded, but one person with knowledge of the attack said most of the information was probably “unclassified”. He said the event had forced officials to reconsider the kind of information they send over unsecured e-mail systems.

Source: Financial Times

Opera 9.5 (currently at Alpha stage) is going to be fastest browser in rendering web pages and it was proved from a test conduced by cybernetnews which show page load time of their site:

Internet Explorer 7: 18 seconds
Firefox 2: 15 seconds
Opera 9.23: 12 seconds
Firefox 3 Nightly: 11 seconds
Opera 9.5 Alpha: 8 seconds

Opera 9.5 is clearly the winner and hope to improve even more when final version is released. Some new features include CSS3 support, improved AJAX compatibility and HTML layout algorithm.

AMD announced further plans to innovate the x86 architecture by introducing SSE5, a new extension of the x86 instruction set that is designed to allow software developers to simplify code and achieve greater efficiency for the most performance-hungry applications. SSE5 will give developers additional capabilities to help maximize the performance of applications that have daily impact on consumers and enterprises, including high performance computing, multimedia and security applications. By making the SSE5 specification available to developers today, AMD expects to ease the adoption of the new instructions for tool providers and software vendors who develop these performance-intense applications.

Samsung Electronics presented its 52-inch LED-backlit Full HD LCD TV ‘F9 Series(model: LE52F96BD)’ during IFA 2007, which features 500,000:1 contrast ratio through Local Dimming technology.
With piano-black bezel, the F9 Series supports dual hidden speakers and rear woofer speaker.

Some key features are:
- Full HD 1080P TV
- 500,000:1 High Contrast Ratio
- Wide Color Enhancer
- SRS TruSurround XT
- Resolution: 1920×1080
- Wiselink (USB 2.0)
- Advanced Digital Connnectivity