Burning Bush on Granma

Computer hackers, apparently from Brazil, entered Cuban Web sites yesterday and posted a message against president George Bush and a possible US war against Iraq, reports Reuters.

"NO WAR F*** BUSH F*** USA", the hackers wrote in capital letters on the Web sites of domestic and international editions of Granma, Cuba`s main newspaper. Granma, the main mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, is named after the battered yacht that president Fidel Castro and a handful of guerrillas used to land in Cuba from Mexico in 1956 and launch a revolution.

The intruders also displayed a Brazilian flag, a customary signature left by hackers from the South American nation. According to the BBC media monitoring service, the hacker identified himself or herself as "Serial Killer" and included an e-mail address and the names of other hackers taking part in the action.

Swedish-Japanese mobile phone-maker Sony Ericsson has launched two new handsets with colour screens and cameras in a bid to win market share and return to profitability this year.

Sony Ericsson, which has a 6% share of the market but needs 7% to 10% to return to the black, unveiled the T310 handset, a model aimed at the youth market, with enhanced gaming capabilities and an attachable camera, which will be available in shops in March. It also showed the T610, a more advanced phone with a built-in camera and an attachable flash for taking pictures in low-light conditions.

Sony Ericsson was born out of the loss-making handset units of consumer electronics giant Sony and the world`s biggest producer of mobile networks, Telefon AB LM Ericsson. It has made losses since the start, and its parents inserted 150 million euros each into the venture earlier this year to keep it going and give its new, jointly developed handsets a chance to win over buyers.

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