Russian Firm Uses NVIDIA GPUs To Crack WPA, WPA2

 We’re not sure what’s more frightening about this, the fact that the Russians figured out how to do it or that WiFi networks are effectively now completely insecure.  ElcomSoft claims they can “recover” WPA and WPA2 encypted passwords using any NVIDIA’s based graphics subsystem in a workstation, desktop or even notebook systems, to crack WPA encyption over 100 times fastest than with a standard CPU.  This might not mean much to the average home user because, let’s face it, serious thugs aren’t

Is this the LG Incite?

Engadget MobileEngadget Mobile has posted an image of what it believes to be a new Windows Mobile Professional Smartphone from LG called the Incite.  The ‘Net has been buzzing about a new WinMo handset from LG for a couple of days, and the folks at Engadget seem to believe this image is the real deal.

Some features of the touchscreen Incite may include a 3MP digital camera, aGPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA mobile broadband, and a largely metal shell.  The Incite would run Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. 

It has been thought that the LG Incite would be headed to AT&T Mobility, speculation which seems to be buttressed by the posted image.

First Look: FireFox Mobile “Fennec” for Windows Mobile

TheUnwired has posted new screenshots of a Windows Mobile version of Mozilla’s upcoming FireFox Mobile web browser.  Labeled in the screenshots as “Fennec,” the mobile browser is running on a Windows Mobile Professional (touchscreen) device and shows an address bar, a sidebar with thumbnails of open web pages, navigation controls and more. 

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The first alpha of FireFox Mobile “Fennec” is expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Starcraft 2 to Be a Trilogy: Bilzzard

Rob Pardo, executive vice-president of game design at Blizzard announced at BlizzCon 2008 that they realized during the design of Starcraft 2 that the campaign was becoming so large, they faced the choice of delaying the game or scaling it back. Instead, the campaign version of the game will be a trilogy, with each part focusing on a separate race. The trilogy will be, in this order: Terrans – Wings of LibertyZerg – Heart of the SwarmProtoss – Legacy of the Void No pricing or release details were announced.

Hardware RoundUp

Video:GeForce GTX 260 reloaded vs. the Radeon HD 4870 1GB @ TTRAMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4550 passive 512M @ techPowerUpECS Hydra Watercooled 9800 GTX+ SLI pack @ bit-techPalit HD 4870 Sonic @ NeoseekerMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS M3N78 Pro Motherboard Review @ MotherboardsAsus M3A79-T Deluxe @ AMDZoneBIOSTAR TPower N750 AM2+ Motherboard @ TweaktownDFI LanParty JR P45-T2RS Motherboard @ CPU3DMemory and Storage:Will Current Performance Memory Kill New Intel Core i7 CPUs? @ Legit ReviewsKingwin Elite 3.5″ SATA to

Thecus Unleashes N7700 7-Bay NAS Server

Beginning with the venerable N4100 to the legendary N5200, Thecus NAS devices have established the company as a worldwide leader in digital storage. Today, Thecus is proud to release details about its latest NAS breakthrough the N7700. Bringing together the cutting-edge technology and years of NAS experience, the N7700 is an enterprise class 7-Bay NAS server that makes no compromises.

To address the needs of business, the N7700 comes with a few more outstanding features. The N7700 supports iSCSI initiators, making it easy for users can centrally manage and deploy storage for their entire network. In addition, the N7700 is also stackable, enabling users to connect their unit with up to five additional N7700s and manage them via a master system. To manage all of that storage, users can look forward to multiple RAID modes on the N7700, including RAID 0, 1, 5,6,10, and JBOD. Whats more, the N7700 also features RAID expansion and RAID level migration, which means that users can add larger hard disks to available slots and join an existing RAID without having to power down the system, cutting productivity-killing downtime to zero.

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Whether it’s a weekend trip or just the trip to work, pack your music with you! The Prolynkz Zynkz 2GB MP3 Player lets you fit up to 2 gigabytes of music right in your pocket. It can also double as a handy USB flash drive or a digital voice recorder, in case you’ve got to record a brilliant idea for posterity. It runs for up to 10 hours of play on a single AAA battery and takes both MP3 and WMA files. It outputs your music to your favorite pair of earphones, and easily readable LCD screen to indicate which track you’re on. This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

OpenOffice 3.0 To Be Released on Monday

It’s difficult to function productively in a professional or educational environment without access to Microsoft Office. Many offices supply the software to its employees at work and some universities even give copies of it to incoming students. But if you don’t fall into either camp and you require a legal copy of the software, you could spend anywhere between $149.95 and $679.95, depending on which version you need. And you might want to start saving your pennies now, because the next version of Microsoft

Thecus Unleashes N7700 7-Bay NAS Server

Thecus Unleashes N7700 7-Bay NAS ServerStorage leader reveals no-compromise enterprise class NAS device 10/10/2008 – Beginning with the venerable N4100 to the legendary N5200, Thecus NAS devices have established the company as a worldwide leader in digital storage. Today, Thecus is proud to release details about its latest NAS breakthrough – the N7700. Bringing together the cutting-edge technology and years of NAS experience, the N7700 is an enterprise class NAS server that makes no compromises.The N7700 brings

October 10 News from Around the Web

The Overclockers Club posted their review of the XFX 9800GTX+. Find this and other reviews from around the web by visiting our forums!

“Since this card higher speeds from the start I had to wonder how much was left in the tank. As it turns out the tank had some gas left. I kept bumping it up and up until I hit the wall on the core and then the same with the memory. Then I had to find the best combination of the three clock speeds. Once I reached about 840-850 MHz on the core I was getting crashes, so I used RivaTuner to unlink and back down the shader cores a touch to move the bar a little higher. This yielded an increase on the GPU core of 123MHz and a final speed of 863MHz. The shader core clock increased by 235MHz and 150Mhz on the memory. All pretty substantial increases on air cooling. Speaking of cooling the stock cooler does a great job cooling this smaller core.”