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Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. It's a Acer Palm Acer is moving into the handheld device market, and its offering is going to be Palm based. The company has announced that it is licensing the PalmOS operating system until 2005 and its device - expected to appear later this year - will be part of Acer's Mobile Data Strategy. ...more

Up to a million PCs in the zombie army

Up to one million PCs are part of an army of zombie computers attached to the internet, according to a survey carried out by a group of security experts. Attackers can control as many as 50,000 at a time. The survey was carried out as part of the Honeypot Project. ...more

Five Download investigates CSI

Channel Five is following the lead of Channel 4 by supporting video on demand. Dubbed Five Download, CSI is the main element of the service, whether it be CSI, CSI: New York or CSI: Miami. Five Download 'enables you to download each episode in high-quality, reliably and securely to your computer,' states the company's website. ...more

Google confirms Adscape acquisition

On its official company blog, Google has confirmed that it has purchased the video game advertising firm Adscape. The move will enable it to expand into in-game advertising, said Google. Financial details were not furnished. ...more

Sandisk intros 8GB MP3 player

SanDisk Corporation has introduced in the States what is claimed to be the world's largest capacity flash-based MP3 player. The Sansa e280 is equipped with 8GB of flash memory as standard. For those who feel they need to put multiple versions of Wagner's Ring cycle on their MP3 player there is also a microSD expansion slot option to plug in up to 2GB of extra memory through a microSD card providing up to 10GB of memory or approximately 2,500 tunes. ...more