Daniel Wissa

“A security association is reporting what it says is the first virus that can pass from a PC to a mobile device and then erase files.” I guess with viruses targeting new markets in the near future, we might see lots of antivirus software moving there in the future too… I would have never thought I might be running say Norton or McAFee on my Smartphone but who knows; if viruses can go mobile then surely antiviruses will too! See the article here…

Watched this on the news today and had to check it out. Telecomare finally upgrading the Broadband plans. Yay! Now it’s taken quite a while for this to happen I think but it’s finally happening, and I believe there is now room for it to be even better. The even better news – for businesses that is – is that the plans and prices are the same for both!!. To see the range of the new plans offered by Telecom go here– the plans are effective from April this year.…

Here’s one of the funniest emails I’ve received in a while. So thought I’d share 🙂 “A man joined a big multi national company as a trainee. On his first day, he dailed the kitchen and shouten into the phone:”Get me a cup of coffee, quickly!” The voice from the oder side responded: “You fool; you’ve dialed the wrong extension! Do you know who you are talking to?” “No” replied the trainee.”It’s the managing director of the company, you idiot!” The trainee shouted back: “And do you know who YOU are talking to, you…

A new version of the GPL – the first major revision in the last 15 years – is coming soon. A draft was recently released here. According to Computerworld the changes are designed to designed to *“address two increasingly important issues in the software industry: software patents and DRM (digital rights management). ” *Will be interesting to see the outcome of this… See the full article here…

Here’s something nice to have a look at as the year 2005 comes to end. I came accross this list of the 50 greatest gadgets in the past 50 years on PCWorld recently. There should be a lot more gadgets joining this list in the next 50 years I think. It’s also interesting that Sony has 7 presences among those 50! Good job Sony!…

A new instant-messaging worm promises a picture of Santa Claus, but delivers a rootkit.  From PCWorld: *“A new **instant-messaging worm** called IM.GiftCom.All is making the rounds this holiday season. Rated as a “medium” threat by IMlogic, the worm attempts to get users of the instant-messaging networks run by America Online, Yahoo, and Microsoft to visit a seemingly festive Web site featuring Santa Claus.”* See the full article [here](https://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,124028,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp)…

So you’ve probably heard of TradeMe and you might have heard of Zillionbut have you heard of 2tradeit ? I never have but saw it today on the sponsored links of my blog. Will check it out and post about it again sometime soon.…

John Downsa 4th year Comp Sci and Psychology student in 2006 will be the next Student Ambassador for Auckland University and has recently started blogging. If you follow the NZ.NET student list you may have read his introduction of himself, but if not you can see it here Pleasedrop by his blogand say hi. I’m sure John will be a great successor for the previous Auckland Student Ambassadors. Welcome to blog world John, hope to see you blogging more soon.…