Have you ever imagined what could happen if your smartphones/PDAs/BlackBerry’s/handheld PCs begin to infect your laptops, desktops, workstations? Virus writers, hackers (whatever you choose to call them) are believed to be involved in proof-of-concept code for malware that can infect multiple operating system platforms simultaneously. This multiplatform virus can affect both mobile devices and desktop machines! Read the rest of this entry »

Console gaming is presently one of my passions. I have had the chance to look at the Xbox 360, GameCube (though briefly) Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2), and now I also hope to lay my hands on the PS3, once it is out in India. But that does not mean that I am writing off PC gaming. A few industry analysts maintain that consoles will dominate the video game landscape hereon, but I would beg to differ. Read the rest of this entry »

One thing that annoys me the most is jumping around my portable music player (SanDisk’s Sansa) and figuring what to do with the dangling wires. I tend to wrap them around Sansa itself, but that usually means I end up replacing earpieces every three months (the wires just snap so easily). And when the cables end up in a tangled bunch, it only adds some more decibels to my already high-pitched sound. Read the rest of this entry »