New worm drops Trojan army

Sophos has highlighted reports of a new worm - W32/Deborm-R - that installs three Trojan components onto infected systems. W32/Deborm-R is a network worm that will attempt to spread itself across the local network - specifically, across shared systems named C or C$ that reside on the local IP subnet and that have no password. The worm then attempts to copy itself to the start up folder on vulnerable systems and will install three Trojan components: Litmus-203, Sdbot-Fam and KillAV-Q. ...more

UPDATED: Apple unveils the iPod mini

Apple has unveiled the business card sized - albeit 13mm thick - iPod mini, capable of storing around 1,000 songs on its 4GB hard drive. Available in five colours - silver, gold, pink, blue or green - it features enhanced, 'Click Wheel' navigation technology, has an eight-hour rechargeable battery and weighs a mere 102 grams. iPod mini will not be available on these shores until April at the earliest. ...more

Just keep taking a Tablet

On Sunday night, at Comdex, Bill Gates is about to demonstrate his pet project: the Tablet PC. The prototype device is reckoned to be around 8in by 14in and weigh 2.2 pounds. ...more

Apple on course for quarterly iPod sales surge

Apple will sell between 11 and 12 million iPods this quarter, according to NPD's analysis of sales figures for January. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that the figure is 'based on various assumptions', explaining that it had been calculated by comparing January's data with its proportion of sales in previous years. 'When the second month of data is released, our analysis will likely lead to a slightly different iPod unit figure,' he wrote in a note to investors Munster noted that the estimate is higher than both Wall Street's 10. ...more

BT promises HD for all

BT's launch of BT Vision raised a few questions as to how the company, which now has content to its arsenal, is to position itself against Sky, which now offers Internet access. We caught up with Richard Griffiths, Director of Technology Strategy and Development at BT Vision, to talk us through how this battle of the behemoths is going to be fought, particularly when it comes to HD. Sky's HD ambitions are already well-known, but BT Vision has HD among its roll call of services. ...more