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Spanish police arrest masterminds of ‘massive’ botnet

Spanish police have revealed that they have arrested three men responsible for one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers.

All are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills.

It is estimated that the so-called Mariposa botnet was made up of nearly 13 million computers in 190 countries.

It included PCs inside more than half of Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks, investigators said. Continue reading >>

LG Maxx, for Maximum Cuteness and Power

Apparently raw power is a girl thing in Korea! Yep LG’s latest Maxx phone or better known as LG-LU9400, is among the first phone to hit the Korean market powered by a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU. Beside its Black and Gold design and the many girls used to promote this new average Smartphone, the Maxx has however some pretty nice specs including a 3.5” WVGA touch-screen, a 5Mpix Camera module with AF, Wi-Fi, EVDO, MicroSD (max to 32GB), DMB, GPS, support with HD video with HD DivX. Continue reading >>

3D Display-No Glasses using Eye-tracking

Many believe that 3D in the living room will only succeed if we do not have to wear glasses to see the 3D images.
The Germany Fraunhofer Institute is demonstrating an interesting 3D display solution without glasses at the CeBIT 2010.
The auto stereoscopic display is using eye-tracking to allow viewers to move around fairly freely and still view perfect 3D. The system is controlled by contact-free gesture. The Fraunhofer HHI institute is showing two such 3D displays at the CeBIT 2010. The analog 3D display uses mechanics to adjust the images to the viewing angle; its picture quality is the highest now achievable anywhere in the world. Continue reading >>

Facebook’s $1B revenues

Facebook may pull in an excess of $1 billion in revenues, according to estimates and poking around on behalf of industry blog Inside Facebook. That’s an increase from the same publication’s estimate of $700 million last year.

Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said last year that he projected the company would break $500 million revenue in 2009, and that it had the potential to be a billion-dollar company already, but that it was acting conservatively. Continue reading >>

The iPad clones are coming!

Here are some more images of an iPad clone. Exactly which clone is unclear. It could be the Teso 10 inch iPad clone that has been spotted on various sites in the last few days, or it could be the EPad we covered yesterday. Then again they could be one and the same device with the EPad being the OEM version of the device offered to companies like TESO, or vice-versa.

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