Why Doesn’t Computers Get Bacterial Infections?

September 2nd, 2009 Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIPSAN FRANCISCO — Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line.

June 30th, 2009 Texas man accused of hacking into clinic computersDALLAS — A security guard is accused of hacking into computers at a Dallas medical clinic where he worked in hopes of launching a massive computer attack before or on July 4. Jesse William McGraw is being detained following his arrest Friday on a charge of downloading malicious code into a computer without authorization.

May 19th, 2006 Dell Computers (DELL) announced that it will start using AMD's processors, breaking its long-standing, single-source relationship with Intel (INTC) and giving AMD yet another victory over Intel. AMD shares surged 12% to $35.10 in late trading, while Intel shares dropped 5% to $17.80.

July 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Tel Aviv University researcher has claimed that the first quantum computer could overnight threaten our security and our data. Dr. Julia Kempe, of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, says that these new computers, still in the theoretical stage, will be many times more powerful than the computers that protect our data now.

May 29th, 2006 Symantec's antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and US government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers from eEye Digital Security said. Symantec is investigating the issue.

April 7th, 2005 US has again achieved the dubious distinction of being responsible for maximum amount of spam (35%) with South Korea (25%) at second place. What is more interesting is: According to Sophos more than 50% of all spam is sent from "zombie" PCs, computers that have been take over by hackers or virus writers.

March 10th, 2006 The company said the new chip for server computers, called Woodcrest, would offer an 80 percent performance improvement and require 35 percent less power; the Conroe chip for desktop computers, which will be released later in the year, will offer 40 percent performance improvement and require 40 percent less power. The foundation for the chips is derived from the company's popular Pentium M chip for notebook computers, the company said.

February 19th, 2009 Its usually a very techie atmosphere at an online media office. So we decided to have a funny time with two of our favorite super heroes who have blessed us with their supernatural phenomena.

November 18th, 2008 10,000 cores in one single computer! 5,000 Atom N330 chips in just one 3U rack computer!! 20,000 threads of execution!!! - If you are wondering about my increasing excitements, then let me tell you, none of them are false. SGI molecules have come out with a technology, a concept which, if implied will do all the above stated works and much more.

April 17th, 2006 Over the last few weeks, it's become obvious that America's immigrant community is seriously out of touch with the American cultural mainstream. Mainstream Americans don't go in for protest marches anymore (mass protests are so '60s).

November 4th, 2005 IBM claims a major breakthrough in the quest developing photon based computers instead of todays electron based silicon chips. In its Silicon Wave Guide chip it claims to have managed to slow down light to 1/300 of its normal speed of 186, 000 miles per second.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A computer security website has issued a warning that hackers are misusing a video that has naked shots of glamorous ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews as a lure to attack PC's. The illegally taped peephole video, showing Andrews as she disrobes, gets viewers and web surfers to download dangerous malware to their computers, reports CBS News.

July 20th, 2009 Are you one of those victimized by Home Antivirus 2010? Well, do you now what it is? To put it straight, Home Antivirus 2010 is a classical rogue anti-spywares that in the disguise of protecting a PC, tricks the unsuspecting user into downloading its registered version. It tricks the users to buy the fake software by using scare tactics: fake privacy alerts and false positives.

February 13th, 2007 My desktop computers hard-disk crashed today morning without any warning. The S.M.A.R.T.

June 2nd, 2009 Acer to offer Google's Android in netbook PCs TAIPEI, Taiwan — Small new "netbook" computers from Acer Inc. will come with Google Inc.'s Android operating system if buyers desire, instead of Windows from Microsoft Corp.