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Nasa investigates virtual space
The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
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Spammers have launched a new malicious spam campaign that exploits social networking site MySpace. The spam is designed to infect unsuspecting email recipients’ PCs with malware that converts their computer into a botnet zombie.

Go to:
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=143501&f_src=darkreading_section_297

iPhone putting on a Lotus Notes suit?
According to a piece carried by the Associated Press, Lotus Notes eMail is coming to Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch
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Apple iPod Touch vs Archos 605 WiFi
CNet review
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Record in-game video
The WeGame client lets you record your own gaming videos from your favorite games.
(tags: gaming video games capture)

Sun to fork out $1 billion for open-source firm MySQL
Sun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a [...]

Zune DiVX Registry Hack
Zune Scene forum members have developed a registry hack that will allow the videos to be added to the Zune software
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The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote (in 60 Seconds)
Mahalo Daily recompiled the macworld keynote in to 1 60 second clip.
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Apple has unveiled the MacBook Air laptop which it claims is the world’s thinnest laptop.

The first spacecraft to visit Mercury in more than 30 years is passing the planet at a distance of just 200km.

Starting at $1799. MacBook Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch trackpad.

Go to:
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/

The Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker by security software company Symantec, can intercept online banking transactions that normally are well guarded by two-factor authentication procedures. During a banking transaction, Silentbanker will change the user’s bank account details over to the attacker’s account, all the while mimicking what the user would expect to see from a typical banking [...]

Fliers’ Data Left Exposed, Report Says
A government Web site designed to help travelers remove their names from aviation watch lists was so riddled with security holes that hackers could easily have stolen personal information from scores of passengers, a congressional report concluded yesterd
(tags: travel identity security)