The email arrives with an attachment entitled Navidad.exe and once opened, has a message written in Spanish which, translated, says "Don't press this button". The virus had spread in a similar manner to the notorious Love Bug by arriving in an...
Post-quack, NDB has received over 2 million calls a week from people solely interested in the service behind call button 7. No matter who you are, you've probably done time on the maddening carousels of the automated telephone switchboard.
Calls will be set up conveniently and easily, by gently clicking buttons built into other common communications applications such as Outlook or Lotus SameTime or instant messenger offerings applications.
A student from Princeton University in the US has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs from record label BMG - and they're as simple as holding down a computer's Shift key.
Push-button instant access to groups on a single call, 'presence' information that shows who's busy before a call is made, voicemail forwarding and text-to-speech services can all be built into the infrastructure with negligible impact on the device.
Features include voice recording when it detects a mic and the ability to use the newly announced Genius feature - which takes information from your listening habits and makes you a playlist at the press of a button - in the nano itself.