The University of Toronto – Canada revealed that more than 1200 computers in over 100 countries were affected. The system called “GhostNet” has hacked computers in embassies, foreign ministries, government departments and offices in several cities belonging to the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan government-in-exile, the Canadian team said.

Initially, the Dalai Lama’s office approached the Munk Centre for an International Studies to investigate allegations of Chinese espionage. After 10 months of study, they found that a far larger spy network is targeting more than 1295 infected computer in 103 countries.

The researchers said that the main focus of the system is on government of south and south-east Asian countries. The Ghostnet system is still alive with a wide-ranging set of tools through which hackers can retrieve documents, and turn on web cameras and audio system, from remote place.

“One of the characteristics of cyber-attacks of the sort we document here is the ease by which attribution can be obscured,” Deibert, director of Munk’s Citizen Lab

One of the major problems faced by students is spending $$$ for text book. During this financial crisis, everyone is trying to minimize their expenses. But in education, this is not possible. Every year the cost of the books is rising.

Flatworld has come out with a revolutionary idea to create and publish college textbooks at free of cost. It also planned to offer audio book versions, study guides, web quizzes and digital flash cards for a fee. Students and teachers can take a print of a text book in whole or part at a fraction of the cost.

Good news for graduates
Futurist Ray Kurzweil leads a new school called Singularity University that will explore a time when computers are more intelligent than people. The university will be sited at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley, close to Google’s headquarters.

The idea of Singularity University is to assemble graduates from 10 different fields including biotechnology, finance, entrepreneurship, networks, computer system, etc, and offer courses on biotechnology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. And to make students look at the same set of problems from different angles.

“The magic of breakthroughs occurs when you have nontraditional thinking around a problem that is stuck,” another founder of University Diamandis said. “It’s when a mathematician works on a biological problem, for example.”The size of future classes will expand to 120 students. Tuition is set at $25,000.
Google has become a sponsor of Singularity University.

The New Year has begun with all its blessings and good things for you. What’s your New Year resolution? A simple and great resolution that can be taken is to keep in pace with the changing world. New technology always brings new habits with it.

Are you still using a mobile phone with old technology? Go for an I-phone or 3G phone and get the world in your hand through its slick interface and seamless connection to the Web. Please have a look at list of the popular 3G phones before going to store: Apple iPhone 3G, HTC Touch Diamond, LG Dare, RIM BlackBerry Bold(AT&T) and Sony Ericsson W760a.

Enjoy films at home with theatre like effects using a High-Definition Television (HDTV) which is the new standard in the television technology; its main benefits being wide-screen picture quality (similar to 35mm film) coupled with compact disc (CD) sound quality. The most popular HDTVs are listed here for reference: Pioneer PRO-111FD, Panasonic TH-50PZ800U, Sony Bravia KDL-55XBR8, Samsung HL61A750 and Panasonic TH-42PX80U.

Jump into the high definition disc world by buying an HD DVD Player. It can actually be mastered up to 7.1 surround sound. Tune your ears to the high sound quality and enjoy your spare time.

Record all the memorable moments like your best friend’s her birthday party, or a lovely holiday, using a digital camera, and keep a record of those moments and never let them perish. The latest digital cameras are Canon PowerShot A590 IS, Fujifilm FinePix F100fd, Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1.

Now books are also been digitized, get a latest e-book reader from the list of readers namely Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-700BC, Digital Reader 1000, Kindle, Hanlin eReader etc available on stores.

With a Laptop you have access to desired information and can work from anywhere. Pick up a laptop that best suits you from the market, and have desired information on anything from cooking recipes to solutions on fixing bugs. Please refer the popular Laptops before choosing yours: Dell XPS M1730, Acer Aspire 8920G, Lenovo ThinkPad T61, Apple MacBook and Dell Inspiron Mini 9.

It is simply great to have a PDA which is also known as palmtop computers, as it can be used as mobile phones, (smartphones), web browsers, fax sender, personal organizer or portable media players. It is an all-in-one product. Have a look at this most popular PDA list: HP iPaq hx2750, HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion, Palm Tungsten E2, Palm TX and Pharos Traveler GPS 525.

As New Year offers, these products are available in the market at rates as low as never before. Get hold of this opportunity and go digital.

Power.com is a social networking site for new generation. Through power.com we can access other popular communities like Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Hi5, know our friends updates and use the power.com feature on other network. “It forms a node for all the social networks”. They have planned to add instant messengers services like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, Spark, AOL and access to other social networks like Twitter, Flickr, linkedin also. The new version is design to mainly target U.S users.

HP unveils new 12.1 inch touch screen table PC. The new ultra portable tablet PC’s weight is just 4.65lb, the baseline setup includes Vista Home Premium, a 2.1GHz AMD Turion X2, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics set, 250GB of HDD space and a built-in webcam. In this screen we can use more than one finger at a time. It has media smart which offers an awesome digital media experience.

Apple performed minor updates on ice which offers roadmap application, and launched it before the year 2008 closed out. iMac technically used non-standard processors that have the same performance characteristics as Intel’s latest mobile chips.

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