Conficker worm infects more than a million PCs

No one wants their computer to get infected by a virus or worm. Everyday people's computer are infected with viruses and worms. If your computer is infected it can steal your data, spread spam or commit other routine cybercrimes. A computer worm can run itself and it also can spread without a host program.
A nasty worm named "Conficker" has infected at least a million Pc's. The Conficker worm spreads itself to other computers and prevents itself from being removed from your computer. It also can make a copy of itself on any device plugged into a USB port, which in turns, when you go to plug that device in another computer, that computer is infected also, therefore spreading more infections.
Why would anyone want to do such a thing. People don't have anything better to do these days. Can't they find something better to do with their lives. Always be careful of what you download on your computer. If you are not sure of the site then don't download. If you are not sure who sent you an email, don't open it.Take precautions to safeguard your computer. Run regularly scheduled antivirus scans on your computer.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/computers/

Web Application On Call

Ditech is trying to come up with a way to talk to someone on a cell phone and accesss applications all at the same time without taking the handset away from your ears. You can be talking on the phone with someone and you want to know what movie is playing, you can accesss a voice service by saying certain keywords, like movie, and it will return a result while you are talking to that person.
They only problem I see with that is that sometimes when you use the voice service, it don't always hear the words correctly. You can say a word and it hears something else. Also, I would be skeptical of my privacy. Will it safeguard my privacy?




http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/22166/page1/
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/22166/page2/

Microsoft's ViFi Project

Microsoft in alliance with University of Massachusetts and the University of Washington has developed a new technology called Vi-Fi, which stands for Vehicle Wi-Fi. When you lose your signal strength while traveling, Vi-Fi eliminates the problem of hopping from one Wi-Fi wireless access point to another. You wont have to worry about losing your connection. You can stay connected and you will not lose your data. This system will provide users with on-the-go internet access more cheaply than existing cellular broadband systems.

According to the article on how Vi-fi works, "In normal WiFi, even if other base stations are in range of a WiFi-equipped computer or smart phone, only one base station will send data to the computer, and only as long as it is in range. Move beyond that base station’s range and the computer must establish a new connection from scratch with another station. With ViFi, the computer nominates one base station as an anchor. Data is sent back and forth between the computer and the Internet via this base station while other bases within range of both the anchor and the computer listen in. If these satellites detect that a computer did not receive data meant for it because it moved out of range of its anchor station or because of interference, they will relay data between the anchor and the computer. This prevents data being lost and connections disrupted as the computer picks a new base station to be its anchor. This process can be repeated over and over as the computer moves around."
I'm sure they will come up with a much more simplier way than this as they always do.

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/feb/28-prepare-for-truly-mobile-wifi

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/wireless/microsoft-develops-vi-fi-vehicle-wi-fi-voip-while-driving-baby.asp