Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne took the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004, have unveiled the VSS Enterprise. The sleek commercial rocket plane represents the ultimate thrill ride for well-heeled space tourists and amateur astronauts, states CNET.

Seating six passengers and two pilots, Virgin Space Ship Enterprise, also known as SpaceShipTwo, will begin test flights next year with commercial launchings carrying paying customers starting after government regulatory requirements are met.

More than 300 people have already put down deposits, or paid the full $200 000 cost of a ticket for future sub-orbital up-and-down flights aboard the new spacecraft.

Dell has revealed plans to create a business unit focused specifically on communications and mobile devices, reports Computing.co.uk.

The new communications solutions unit will be headed up by ex-Motorola executive Ron Garriques, former head of Dell's consumer business, said The Wall Street Journal. The unit will focus primarily on building mobile phones and other portable devices.

Under the new structure, Dell's consumer division will be combined with the small business computer unit, and headed up by the latter's current president, Steve Felice.

Celebrating “necromorphic” alien dismemberment with verve, Visceral Games has unveiled Dead Space 2, the sequel to last year's space-based survival horror game about slicing renegades from John Carpenter's The Thing into giblets, says PCWorld.

As Isaac ("Asimov Arthur C") Clarke, you'll get to be proactive for a change, "taking the fight to the Necromorphs" wielding "new tools to gruesomely slice and dismember" all those legions of spasmodic creepy-crawly aliens.

"We're thrilled to jump back into the series, making the next chapter in Isaac's journey," said Steve Papoutsis, executive producer of Dead Space 2.

The percentage of people who are clicking on mails leading to fraudulent bank login pages is very low, but still enough for phishers to make a killing, states eWeek.

New research from security firm Trusteer shows that once users had been lured to a phishing site, 45% entered their login information.

These findings, taken during a three-month analysis, are based on a sample of more than three million users of Trusteer's Rapport browser security service that are customers of 10 large US and European banks.