Cellphones help prevent accidents
Nissan is using cellphone technology to help reduce accidents involving pedestrians, reports Business Week.
The company is researching pedestrian-related communication involving the transmitting of pedestrian position data to vehicles via the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Nissan's intelligent transportation system employs the next 3G cellular communications system, just launched in Japan, where the GPS function is used as the basis to provide information on a cellphone's location. This information is fed to a computerised vehicle system, and a pedestrian alert appears onboard the vehicle to warn the driver, helping to reduce road accidents, particularly in a blind-spot situation.
Limited attack from DNS worm
There is a limited attack potential from a Microsoft DNS worm, reports PC World. The company has not yet said when it will release a patch to fix an under-attack flaw in its server software, but most properly protected servers should not be vulnerable.
"Any machine that gets successfully hit by this is poorly set up," says Ronald O'Brien, a senior security analyst at Sophos.
The worm, dubbed Delbot, Nirbot, or Rinbot, exploits a zero-day flaw in the Domain Name System service on servers running Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2.
Web surfing made easy
Suranga Chandratillake, founder of video search engine blinkx, has invented a remote control that helps users channel surf the Web, says Business Week.
Similarly to the on-air channel guides on cable and satellite TV, the blinkx tool provides a comprehensive list of network TV programming available on the Web, then allows users to call up a show, from practically anywhere on the Web, by clicking their mouse.
The device is the latest effort by search engines, tech startups, and even TV networks to become the go-to portal for finding and watching professionally made online programming, in effect, becoming the definitive guide to Web TV.
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