Valentine’s Day Worms Doing the Rounds on the Internet, warns PandaLabs
Valentine’s Day is soon approaching, and malware writers all over the world are using this opportunity to spread the good bad word. Panda Security has announced that PandaLabs has detected two new worms which use the topic of Valentine’s Day to spread.
The newly discovered worms are called Nuwar.OL and Valentine.E. In fact, earlier this month, we had reported about the return of the Storm Worm just in time for Valentine’s Day.
According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, “Year after year we see the appearance of several malware strains that use Valentine’s Day as bait to attract users. This indicates that cyber-crooks are still reaping the benefits of this technique and many people still fall into the trap.”
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AMD Launches Two-Chip Graphics Card For Gamers
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday launched for PC gamers a two-chip graphics card that it hopes will give it a lead in price and performance over rival Nvidia.
The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 combines two graphics processors on a single board, giving it nearly double the performance of the single-chip Radeon HD 3870 introduced in November 2007, according to AMD. The latest graphics card tops a Teraflop, or 1 trillion floating point operations per second, which is the equivalent of a trillion mathematical calculations per second.
High-end graphics cards target hardcore gamers looking for realism in 3-D effects used in many videogames today. To get peak performance, game enthusiasts will use multiple graphics cards and use software tools to boost the clock speed of CPUs.
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Researchers make tiny radio from nanotubes
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology, can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The researchers made the microscopic radios out of carbon nanotubes — tiny strands of carbon atoms — and say in theory they could lead to faster devices.
They overcame a series of obstacles that have defeated efforts to make nano-radios, including getting amplification, by making their devices on quartz wafers.
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Internet helps doctor get back to basics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dr. Howard Stark’s office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist.
Instead, he and his assistant Michele Norris-Bell check e-mail alerts on handheld devices and — between seeing patients in person — on a desktop computer.
Stark has moved most of his practice, based in Washington, onto the Internet and he couldn’t be happier. Since he started his Web-based service two years ago, he has received 14,000 e-mails.
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RIM jazzes up BlackBerry for broader appeal
TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candy bar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia goodies, exposing itself to shoppers’ fickle tastes and competition from Apple’s iPhone.
Its devices now include more “lifestyle” features like television, music players, cameras and Facebook social-networking software for broad appeal.
“I think the whole social networking phenomenon is quite substantial,” RIM’s co-Chief Executive, Jim Balsillie, told Reuters in an interview.
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BSNL to work with Soma Networks to provide WiMAX solutions
Indian telecom operator BSNL has said that they are now collaborating with US-based WiMAX solutions firm Soma Networks for their WiMAX initiative in the country.
The two companies would work towards providing WiMAX solutions in four states in three circles.
They are going to establish an infrastructure which would cater to around 20 crore people in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Goa.
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Australian girl changes blood group, immune system
CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian teenage girl has become the world’s first known transplant patient to change blood groups and take on the immune system of her organ donor, doctors said on Friday, calling her a “one-in-six-billion miracle.”
Demi-Lee Brennan, now 15, received a donor liver when she was 9 years old and her own liver failed.
“It’s like my second chance at life,” Brennan told local media, recounting how her body achieved what doctors said was the holy grail of transplant surgery. “It’s kind of hard to believe.”
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Orbiting U.S. spy satellite could crash to Earth
(Reuters) – A U.S. intelligence satellite has lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or March, a government official said on Saturday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the spy satellite can no longer be controlled and it was not known where on the planet it might come down.
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BlackBerry maker jazzes up goods for broader appeal
TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candybar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia goodies, exposing itself to shoppers’ fickle tastes and competition from Apple Inc’s iPhone.
Its devices now include more “lifestyle” features like television, music players, cameras and Facebook social-networking software for broad appeal.
“I think the whole social networking phenomenon is quite substantial,” RIM’s co-Chief Executive, Jim Balsillie, told Reuters in an interview.
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A different look at the Apple drop
For the first time in recent memory, Apple Inc.’s stock declined after Macworld, its showcase expo in San Francisco. Generally speaking, the event highlights Chief Executive Steve Jobs and a slew of new products that have usually been kept secret for years.
Apple’s stock always goes up a few points immediately after the show. This year the stock plummeted. What happened?
The Street blamed the less than rosy outlook for the next quarter, but with a stock like Apple’s, nobody knows the effect of forward-looking statements when you have so many emotionally invested investors. A prediction of an out-and-out shortfall could give the stock a boost or send it tumbling.
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