It seems there are two kinds of worm in the Windows world: ones that threaten hundreds of millions of XP users, and ones that embarrass a small number of media companies using Windows 2000. The second type struck last week. It started spreading via the net on Sunday with Zotob.A, which according to anti-virus company Trend Micro, infected about 50 computers worldwide.
With a new blog created every second, how are you going to keep up with 900 000 posts a day across 15-million blogs? These blogs (short for web logs) are online journals written by people who might be talking about your organisation, or sharing information that could help you do your job. And if you have a company blog, how will customers find it among the millions of alternatives?
Internet shoppers will get a chance to add an unusual item to their wardrobe: the flamboyant swan dress worn by Icelandic singer Björk, which will be auctioned for charity next month. The quirky dress is among more than 150 celebrity fashion items that will be up for grabs on auction site eBay.
Geography isn’t history, yet. Far from ushering in the death of distance, the internet is making us more anxious to live alongside like-minded people, reinforcing rather than reducing social divides. This theory appears in a study of websites that publish information about our neighbourhoods.
Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of Britain’s ”Great Train Robbers” across many years and two continents, has died at the age of 81, the metropolitan police said on Wednesday. The force said the retired detective chief superintendent — known as ”Slipper of the Yard” — died on Wednesday after a long illness.
Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of Britain’s ”Great Train Robbers” across many years and two continents, has died at the age of 81, the metropolitan police said on Wednesday. The force said the retired detective chief superintendent — known as ”Slipper of the Yard” — died on Wednesday after a long illness.
The jewel in South Africa’s tourism crown, Cape Town, faces a filthy future as the city’s six major landfill sites are expected to reach their capacity in the next five years. ”We have a serious crisis. Imagine what the city will look like in 2010,” said Saliem Haider, acting head of disposal in the city’s solid-waste department.
Heavy flooding has claimed the lives of 13 people in Romania over the past three days and three more are missing, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday, warning that the toll could rise further. Vasile Blaga said 400 houses have been swept away by flood waters.
A bizarre diplomatic skirmish has broken out after Belarus retaliated against Lithuania’s decision to build a radioactive waste dump close to their shared border by announcing plans to put two giant pig farms in sniffing distance of its neighbour.
France could face its worst period of social unrest for a decade, analysts and commentators warned, as Dominique de Villepin’s centre-right government returns on nThursday from its summer break. With petrol prices soaring, economic growth hesitant, trade unions furious, public confidence in the country and its political leaders at rock-bottom.