One of the world’s fastest-spreading viruses – code-named “Downadup” or “Conflicker” – has already infected over nine million computers.
Data security firm F-Secure has warned the virus is infecting corporate networks at a rate previously unseen.
According to F-Secure, Downadup uses several different methods to spread. These include using the recently patched vulnerability in Windows Server [...]

Yep you heard right, Ubisoft announced that it will release Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game, an adaptation of the ABC medical soap opera taking place in the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital.
To appear on the Nintendo DS, Wii, and PC in early 2009, the game will offer an original storyline and will enable players to take [...]

It has just emerged that telecoms and networking equipment giant Nortel filed for bankruptcy yesterday. The Canadian technology company employs over 300 people in Galway and has had an operation there since 1973.
It is understood the company never fully recovered from the major economic downturn of 2001 and 2002, made worse by the dot.com downturn. [...]

The 6th grade science teacher, Mrs. Parks, asked her class, “Which human body part increases to 10 times its size when stimulated?” No one answered until little Mary stood up, angry, and said, “You should not be asking 6th graders a question like that! I’m going to tell my parents, and they will go and [...]

Microsoft announced that Windows 7 is going into public beta yesterday evening. The first beta version of the successor to Windows Vista is immediately available as a downloadable disk image to MSDN, TechBeta, and TechNet subscribers, while the general public will get to test-drive the new operating system starting Friday.
Windows 7 is expected to hit [...]

Dell will cut almost 2,000 jobs in Limerick in a cost-cutting measure.
The company plans to move all manufacturing from the Raheen facility to Poland over the next 12 months following a global review of its operations.
The measures at the 18-year-old Dell plant, which became a symbol of the Celtic Tiger boom years, dealt another blow [...]

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