The worm proliferates by e-mailing itself through its own SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) engine, according to Sophos. When it infects a computer it scans the hard disk for e-mail addresses and then takes the domains of the addresses it finds and queries search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Lycos looking for similar […]

One of the high-flyers during the Internet boom has been sold. Too bad very few others had as much luck. Major League Baseball has bought Tickets.com for $66 million and now you have to wonder what kind of stuff will they do to put their product ahead of the NBA and NFL. I would say […]

Maybe you heard, maybe you didn’t, but the latest MSN Messenger Beta (build 7.0.0604) has leaked. There’s a few new features, like a custom status message, but nothing spectacular.
But what I did notice was the fact that MSN Search is suddenly heavily integrated. Look at this screenshot:

Notice how there is a search button below […]

In case you haven’t read about this on another blog yet: Google Maps.
I’ve just played with it a little, and I’m very impressed. You don’t need to re-load the page at all the navigate, and you can simply click-and-drag to move along the map. Same goes for zooming. It’s all done on the fly, and […]

Just came across this in Jeremy Zawodny’s link blog: Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines.
Could this be true? I’m a bit sceptical myself, and think it may be a joke.
If it really is true, then it is a great move for both Ask Jeeves and Bloglines. After all, Ask Jeeves will be the first “regular” search engine […]

I haven’t seen anything official from MSN yet, but apparently they’re going to integrate the official Belgium Electronic ID (eID), a sort of electronic passport for Belgium citizens, with MSN Messenger. It was announced today by Bill G himself, in a press conference in Brussel.
Mess.be has some more information, so go check it out now. […]

Everyone who has a blog has experienced problems with comment spam. Some have completely turned off commenting to keep from having to deal with the deluge of fake comments.
The Register has an interview online with someone in London who does comment spamming, or link spamming as some call it, and actually makes a pretty good […]

Legendary computer hardware/software manufacturer Commodore (of C64 and Amiga fame) has been sold to yet another company, eleven years after the original company filed for bankruptcy.
The new owner - American online music distributor, Yeahronimo Media Ventures - has paid a whopping 24 million Euros for the beleaguered Commodore brand.
In related news: the venerable Amiga could […]

Brazil. 16.7lbs. Big. Ass. Baby.

This is so funny, I just had to share it:
In his seventh annual keynote speech at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s chairman explained that the proliferation of high-speed Internet access and the falling price of data storage are compelling people to put music, photos, movies and other aspects of their life into a digital […]

After a few days of having a teaser on their site, Suprnova’s Sloncek did an interview with NovaStream.org about a new P2P app and network called eXeem that will be released for download in a couple of weeks. It’s being developed by a new, unnamed company, which asked Sloncek to be a representative for them.
It […]

The largest and best BitTorrent site on the ‘net, “Suprnova.org”:http://www.suprnova.org/ has been shut down.
From the site:
As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up! But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the […]

Awesome.

Our friends at MSN released a new blog service called MSN Space to accompany the new version of MSN Messenger (which is on public beta stage). The service will support comments, trackbacks, stats and direct posting from camera phones.
The way things are moving, in ten years Microsoft will control the world, Bill Gates will […]

Olympus, the world’s top endoscope maker in the world is designing a disposable camera pill to look inside the human body. The device would replace current endoscope systems and will also have the capacity to extract fluids from body parts (storing them in a negatively-pressured space) and to deliver drugs in specific areas. With only […]

I was never that big into conspiracy theory type stuff, but I found this newsbit interesting because it involves code that must be broken. Weird (at least to me) to think that people go their whole lives searching for an object that they are unsure even exists. What if these aren’t clues at all and […]