 McAfee’s system and network protection solutions provide proactive, zero-day protection against a recent wave of threats that have been working to exploit a hole in the plug-and-play feature in the Windows operating system.
The vulnerability, termed MS05-039, was announced by Microsoft on August 9 and within five days the vulnerability had been targeted by virus writers that produced multiple variants of the ever expanding SDBot family, as well as a new family now known as Zotob. McAfee solutions were able to proactively protect McAfee’s small to large business customers prior to the release of the exploit code and without updates, thereby helping to identify and block the attacks before they could cause damage to systems and networks.
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Nissan Design America (NDA) won Best in Design at the 2005 Extreme Gravity Racing Series. Dubbed the Nissan Flying Torpedo, this sleek race machine competed with ten other manufacturers.
I’m pretty sure the last thing any robot-humanoid researcher wants to do fifteen times a day is pick up and reorient a 150 pound machine every time it falls, but the R. Daneel Study 1 (whose name is not only an Asimov reference, but means Responsive Dexterous Actions aNd Embodiment ELucidation) developed by the University of Tokyo is officially in the running for our robot of the year award.
We all know that GM has serious beef with Chinese auto maker Chery. GM is suing Chery over the QQ (shown), a mini car that GM claims Chery copied from GM-Daewoo’s Matiz, which GM currently sells as the Chevrolet Spark in China. So far, the court battle hasn’t gotten anywhere as GM has failed to produce any evidence on how Chery gained information about Spark’s appearance by illegal means.
IBM announced that it is contributing software to the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox Web browser to make it easier for more users — including those with visual and motor impairments — to access and navigate the Web. In addition to contributing code that will make it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified, and to be better navigated with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, IBM is contributing Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML) accessibility technology to the upcoming Firefox Version 1.5.
Low-power, high-performance LVDS (low-voltage differential signaling) buffer-repeater devices that boost the signal integrity of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) across backplanes and cables in telecom, datacom, industrial, medical, automotive and office imaging applications, have been developed by National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara CA.
Wrigley’s Doublemint Twins have been nominated as America’s favorite advertising icons for Advertising Week’s Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame.
According to market chatter, Apple is set to announce a deal with Google calling for Google to offer Apple’s iTunes music store through its own site. The rumored deal would pair the nation’s leading online music store with its leading search engine.