White blood cells from a strain of cancer-resistant mice cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory mice, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported today.

“Even highly aggressive forms of malignancy with extremely large tumors were eradicated,” Zheng Cui, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues reported in this week’s on-line edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The transplanted white blood cells not only killed existing cancers, but also protected normal mice from what should have been lethal doses of highly aggressive new cancers.

Source: sciencedaily.com

Japanese video game maker Nintendo opened fire on rivals Microsoft and Sony by grandly unveiling a new “Wii” console it claimed will revolutionize gaming.

Shaped like a television remote control and engineered with motion sensors and speakers, the Wii control enables users to guide game play by moving as if actually weilding swords, swinging golf clubs, or firing weapons.

Source: AFP

Warner Bros.-based Legendary Pictures has picked up film rights to adapt the popular fantasy video game franchise World of Warcraft and will develop the project with game publisher Blizzard Entertainment, which is owned by Vivendi.

Source: comingsoon.net

pple Computer Inc. could negotiate new deals with record labels and artists to sidestep French government plans to open the copy-protection technology of its iTunes music service to rivals, under a draft Senate amendment to be voted on this week.

Apple and Sony could continue to refuse to share their FairPlay and ATRAC3 file formats, provided they obtain the authorization of artists and other copyright holders whose music they sell online, said Valerie Aumage, an online copyright specialist with Paris law firm Dubarry Le Douarin Veil.

“As long as Apple can show that the restrictions conform to the wishes of copyright holders, there would be no case to answer,” she said.

Source: AP

Hong Kong’s High Court ordered four Internet Service Providers (ISP) to disclose the personal details of 49 people suspected of downloading three local movies without authorisation.

The court gave the internet companies 21 days to provide the names, addresses and identification numbers of the individuals to three Hong Kong film companies.

Source: AFP

Panda Software Labs have detected a phishing attack against clients of SouthTrust bank. The international PandaLabs network has already registered numerous incidents worldwide related to this attack.

The e-mail message used in this new phishing attack pretends to come from those in charge of security at SouthTrust. It claims that, due to certain security checks, users should go to a certain Web page and enter their confidential details.

Those responsible for this attack are using several Internet domains to host these false Web pages — each with several IP addresses in different geographical locations.

Utilizing a JavaScript function, the cybercriminals deceive users by displaying SouthTrust’s web site address in the browser bar.

“Using several domains to host spoofed web pages makes it more difficult to disable them,” explains Luis Corrons, director of Panda Software Labs. “As a general rule, users should never enter confidential data, regardless of the reason given in the e-mail message.”

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned of a “critical” security flaw in its Windows operating system Vulnerabilities in Macromedia Flash Player from Adobe Could Allow Remote Code Execution (913433) and another in its business Exchange software that could allow attackers to take control of a computer.

The latest patches can be downloaded at www.microsoft.com/security.

Microsoft released Arabic, Finnish, Japanese, and German versions of its still-under-development IE 7 Beta 2 browser.

“We will provide IE7 in all languages we have for Windows once we ship later this year, including all the languages requested,” wrote IE group program manager Tony Chor on the blog. “These beta versions are simply the first ones we have localized and tested. We picked these as representative of some of the different challenges we face as we localize IE.”

Source: InformationWeek

Tom Cruise has taken the owner of TomCruise.com to domain name arbitrator WIPO to win it back.

The domain was registered in November 1996, and other super-celebs have been going to WIPO for years trying to win back their namesake domains.

The domain owner is none other than the world’s biggest cybersquatter, Jeff Burgar, registered under his Alberta Hot Rods company name.

Source: The Register

AOL is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 7 percent of its worldwide work force, and is closing its call center in Jacksonville, Fla.

Other cuts will come from call centers in Ogden, Utah, and Tucson, Ariz.

The layoffs announced Tuesday represent the first major cuts since the Time Warner Inc. Internet unit cut about 700 positions last fall.

Source: AP

The US Patent and Trademark Office has been getting praise for officially launching the Peer to Patent program — the purpose of Peer to Patent is to find patents that have been issued for already made products or items that don’t properly qualify for a patent. Because the USPTO usually does not have the manpower and time to thoroughly check every patent that comes into the office, many are unjustly rubber stamped. A New York law school helped develop the Peer to Patent program that will help ease the workload of “underpaid and overwhelmed” patent examiners. The program will officially begin on May 12.

Source: dailytech

Microsoft has released a beta of Windows Live Messenger, the next version of its MSN Messenger instant-messaging service, it announced Tuesday.

The software for the service is available for the public to download from its Windows Live Ideas website. It was available for beta testing before, but by invitation only.

Source: CIO