Cult virus listens for his master's voice

Following a recent advisory from CERT that virus writers are concentrating on home users, Sophos has detected a new virus that displays those virus traits such as opening IRC channels to await further instructions from the attacker. W32/Cult-A is a worm and backdoor Trojan that arrives in an email pretending to be an eCard from BlueMountain.com with a pdf attachment. ...more

Microsoft Earthquake 6.8

There was an earthquake in Seattle yesterday that measured a healthy 6.8 on the Richter scale shaking the Microsoft Corporation to its foundations. That's not really true but MS supremo Bill Gates was delivering the final keynote speech at the Connected Learning Community Technology Summit when the trembler struck. ...more

W3C issues mobile guidelines

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued a 'candidate recommendation' for a set of basic guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The document is backed by over 30 organisations, including many of the companies involved in the development of the Internet on mobile devices - AOL, the International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG), Internet Content Rating Association, Microsoft, Vodafone, Nokia, Google, dotMobi and France Telecom, among others. ...more

Motorola says iTunes phone debut is imminent

The CEO of Motorola has denied that mobile phone network operators are not prepared to carry its iTunes-playing mobile phone, the Rokr. Ed Zander said that the phone will be available in the US, in a couple of months. 'There is no resistance on anybody's part,' Zander said. ...more

Texas Instruments eyes Web music devices

Texas Instruments has its eye on the growing market for Internet-based music devices. The company has unveiled a new chip employing power management technology that allows devices to play for up to 70 hours on two AA-sized batteries. The new digital signal processor, together with analogue technology, converts real world sound into suitably digital data. ...more