Short-term setback for Dell

Dell chairman Michael Dell insists Dell`s recent troubles are a short-term setback, reports News.Com.

The company will recall 4.1 million exploding batteries. Analysts have estimated Dell and Sony, which produced the faulty components, are looking at a damage-control bill of $85 million to $430 million.

"There are a number of things a company might do in this situation - run and hide, wait for the regulators, or claim it`s not a problem," Dell told an audience convened by the local chamber of commerce.

According to BBC News, scientists have come up with a way to bring what they call "real colour" to TV, a concept which has so far been impossible.

Using thousands of tiny super-prisms controlled by robotic "muscles", known as tuneable diffraction gratings, can, unlike today`s limited three colour systems (red, green and blue), display all colours.

According to scientists, the prisms are able to reproduce every colour we see in the real world.

In a disturbing trend, many Web sites designed for paedophiles have developed a way of circumventing the law by offering sexualised images of children wearing very little clothing.

This is according to News.Com, which says there are a growing number of these so-called "model" sites - Internet locations that offer scores of original photographs of scantily clad under-age children, often posed in ways requested by subscribers.

Users of the unreleased Vista Beta have been urged to download patches for "critical security flaws", PCWorld reports.

The patches fix bugs in Internet Explorer and the Windows kernel, and have raised some eyebrows because Microsoft had not previously acknowledged that these bugs also affect Vista.

Vista is "the first major Microsoft product release that will be serviced with security updates throughout the beta process," Vista product manager Alex Heaton said.