Another PayPal virus strikes

Anti-virus experts say another variant of the Mimail worm, which spreads via e-mail and tries to harvest confidential information, is spreading fast. The latest variant, Mimail-J, is the second in a week to encourage recipients to hand over their personal details.

The latest worm tries to induce PayPal users to type a social security card number and mother`s maiden name into a pop-up window. It arrives in e-mail with a subject line warning PayPal users that their account is about to expire.

The US`s AT&T Wireless has entered the mobile Internet arms race with a national upgrade to its mobile data network that will enable laptop connections at twice the speed of dial-up access.

The move comes ahead of changes in US services next week, when cellphone users can begin switching wireless carriers without changing phone numbers. Cellphone carriers have been hurrying out new products and promotions in a bid to attract new customers and retain old ones when the new rules take effect.

AMD announced at Supercomputing 2003 in the US this week that the AMD Opteron processor has appeared four times for its debut on the Top 500 Supercomputer list. "The AMD Opteron processor has marched straight to the top 10 of the supercomputing field," said Marty Seyer, VP and GM of AMD`s Microprocessor Business Unit.

The Top 500 list is published twice yearly and is based on the LINPAC benchmark, which measures a computer`s floating-point rate of executing linear equations and is expressed in Gigaflops or billions of floating point operations per second.

Silicon chip giant VIA Technologies and former broadcaster WorldVibrations say they are about to "set radio on its ear" with their joint venture - a complete digital radio station in a box. Their WorldVibrations Radio Station is described as an all-in-one professional quality appliance based on the VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX mainboard and the VIA Envy24 audio controller, for on-the-air, Internet, corporate network, satellite or in-house broadcasting.

The companies say the fully automated WorldVibrations Radio Station makes it easy for people with no previous radio experience to program anything from a professional round-the-clock music or information radio station to corporate programming and outside events coverage.