Topic: Science and Technology

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Telecom picks up Gen-i in Watson's NZ shake-up

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:28 AM

	Eric Watson's Cullen Investments is selling its IT services firm Gen-i to Telecom for $62.5 million. Read full article: 'Telecom picks up Gen-i in Watson's NZ shake-up'

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Articles: Yahoo and Google hit by internet attack

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:26 AM

	A hacker attack on internet services company Akamai Technologies Inc. disrupted access to large websites including those run by Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft for up to 2 hours, according to Web tracker Keynote Systems Inc. Read full article: 'Yahoo and Google hit by internet attack'

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Articles: Google me: I married a murderer

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:24 AM

	The "I married a murderer" refrain has a long history. Google the phrase and the search engine churns out 146,000 hits. Read full article: 'Google me: I married a murderer'

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Articles: New digital cameras read number plates in an instant

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:22 AM

	Police may invest in new hidden cameras that recognise vehicle number plates. Read full article: 'New digital cameras read number plates in an instant'

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Articles: Cellphone virus 'harmless' apart from battery wear

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:19 AM

	Cellphone users don't have to worry about the newly announced cellphone virus, but should be aware of the implications for the future, says anti-virus expert Nick FitzGerald. Read full article: 'Cellphone virus 'harmless' apart from battery wear'

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Articles: Panel dropped idea of closing NASA field centers

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:17 AM

	The White House commission on moon and Mars exploration debated cutting costs at NASA by closing some of its 10 field centers but quickly concluded that would be politically impossible, the group's chairman told senators Thursday. Read full article: 'Panel dropped idea of closing NASA field centers'

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Articles: Nokia, GSM body play down phone worm threat

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:15 AM

	Nokia has downplayed the security threat posed by the new worm coded to attack smart phones running on the Symbian operating system as "relatively small". Read full article: 'Nokia, GSM body play down phone worm threat'

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Articles: Cabir, the first virus per cellular phones

Posted by admin on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:12 AM

You can’t even relax with your cellular phones! As if it wasn’t enough to have floods of spam and viruses that overflow our email accounts, now the threat has become mobile. In fact, as reported by Kaspersky Lab, the international company specialised in the development of software for data security, the Cabir virus has arrived, meaning the first worm that can also infect cellular telephones.

Read full article: 'Cabir, the first virus per cellular phones'

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Articles: Internet's role in racism debated

Posted by admin on Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 04:43 AM

	Officials from more than 60 countries have been meeting in France to discuss ways of combating racism on the internet. Read full article: 'Internet's role in racism debated'

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Articles: Teleportation breakthrough made

Posted by admin on Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 04:40 AM

	Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports. Read full article: 'Teleportation breakthrough made'

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