A virus was found in NASA’s space station laptop, the virus was removed after an antivirus scan. The virus identified as W32.Gammima.AG worm, generally affects online gaming system’s to steal logon information.
NASA officials believe it could have come through a USB drive of an astronaut. Though the threat was not a serious one and it was isolated soon, it has come as embarassment for the security procedures of NASA, world’s leading space agency.

Many expected iphone to become instant hit in every market just like US. But apart from US and few European countries, iphone hasn’t taken off as expected. Even worse, In India it is a total flop show. Indian youngsters are not averse to spending thousands on mobile phones, but they are certainly not dumb either. India is one of the major market for Nokia’s high end phones including N series and E Series. These phones offer almost all the features and functionality, of a mini computer coupled with no restrictions on Network, software or data plans. But with Iphone 3G priced at same price as the top notch N95/N96, its features are not that great to sweep away the Nokia users.
Except the touch screen Iphone 3G falls short in almost every other area for the same price.
Whether it is iphone’s poor 2MP camera vs 5MP carl zeiss optics of Nokia or the battery life or application support. Iphone 3G’s much bloated feature 3G itself cannot be put to test in India, and Nokia has been offering 3G silently in even its basic phones.
Thanks to many complaints from other markets about poor call quality and battery life, many wannabe iphone users simply walked away.There could also another reason unlike other products which primarily launch in US before coming to countries like India, India is the first takeoff pad for most popular mobiles, be it Nokia or Samsung or Sony Ericsson, all have almost 95% of their models launched in India. On the other hand US customers get less than 10% of the models and mostly AT&T and other operators introduce phones which failed in Europe and Asia. The only N Series phone available with AT&T was N75 and which was probably the worst performing N Series device in Europe and India. Same with Sony Ericsson and Samsung.
All in all Apple might have to do much better than hype in markets outside US.

M S Dhoni’s Indian ODI team won the fourth match of the Bilateral One Day Series in  Srilanka to win the series 3-1 with one match remaining. Suresh Raina was the top scorer and MS Dhoni also played a big role in India reaching 258.

	India innings (50 overs maximum)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		V Kohli	b Thushara	54	87	66	7	0	81.81
		G Gambhir	c Dilshan b Kulasekara	17	45	21	1	0	80.95
		Yuvraj Singh	c Jayawardene b Vaas	0	12	6	0	0	0.00
		SK Raina	c Kulasekara b Thushara	76	125	78	6	1	97.43
		MS Dhoni	c Jayasuriya b Thushara	71	104	80	4	0	88.75
		RG Sharma	c Warnapura b Mendis	18	30	23	0	0	78.26
		S Badrinath	c Jayawardene b Muralitharan	6	10	11	0	0	54.54
		Harbhajan Singh	run out (Kulasekara/Muralitharan)	2	7	4	0	0	50.00
		P Kumar	b Thushara	2	7	6	0	0	33.33
		Z Khan	c Warnapura b Thushara	0	5	2	0	0	0.00
		MM Patel	not out	1	1	1	0	0	100.00
		Extras	(b 1, lb 5, w 5)	11
		Total	(all out; 49.4 overs; 221 mins)	258	(5.19 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	WPUJC Vaas	9	1	40	1	4.44
	KMDN Kulasekara	8	0	38	1	4.75
	T Thushara	8.4	0	47	5	5.42	(5w)
	BAW Mendis	10	1	43	1	4.30
	M Muralitharan	10	0	56	1	5.60
	ST Jayasuriya	4	0	28	0	7.00

	Sri Lanka innings (target: 259 runs from 50 overs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		ST Jayasuriya	c Raina b Harbhajan Singh	60	85	52	8	2	115.38
		BSM Warnapura	lbw b Patel	0	31	18	0	0	0.00
		KC Sangakkara	b Patel	6	20	16	1	0	37.50
		DPMD Jayawardene	run out (Kohli/Harbhajan Singh)	16	56	40	0	0	40.00
		CK Kapugedera	lbw b Yuvraj Singh	30	51	32	1	0	93.75
		TM Dilshan	lbw b Harbhajan Singh	12	17	22	1	0	54.54
		WPUJC Vaas	lbw b Yuvraj Singh	17	23	29	1	0	58.62
		KMDN Kulasekara	st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh	12	31	23	0	0	52.17
		T Thushara	c Raina b Khan	40	44	29	2	2	137.93
		BAW Mendis	run out (Sharma/Khan)	2	14	11	0	0	18.18
		M Muralitharan	not out	1	11	7	0	0	14.28
		Extras	(b 4, lb 2, w 10)	16
		Total	(all out; 46.3 overs; 196 mins)	212	(4.55 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	P Kumar	4	0	25	0	6.25	(1w)
	Z Khan	9.3	3	27	1	2.84	(2w)
	MM Patel	9	0	48	2	5.33
	Harbhajan Singh	10	0	40	3	4.00	(4w)
	Yuvraj Singh	10	0	53	2	5.30
	RG Sharma	4	1	13	0	3.25

The first phone running Google’s Android OS might hit US market from HTC coming Novemeber 2008.HTC has filed compliance report to FCC on the phone and by the looks of it the phone might look like the ATT Tilt running Android instead of Windows Mobile edition.

The phone also will be having all the basic features of modern day smart phones including wifi,Bluetooth. This specific phone will have jog ball and a sliding keyboard.

The phone might hit T-Mobile stores as early as this November 10. T-Mobile is a major partner in the Android project.

Pervez Musharraff today offered his resignation and also has mentioned it as an act to prevent further violence in the country. Many analysts had predicted he was running out of time and it was only a matter of days before he will quit.

It appears Musharraf has entered into an understanding with the elected government that he wont be charged under any sections and he will be immune against prosecution for his bloodless coup in 1998.

Though many in the ruling Government was crying for his impeachment, the army didn’t like the concept of impeachment. Despite staying neutral in this issue, army preferred a better treatment to their former General.

Immediately after the elected Government came to power there were Bomblasts in Indian embassy in Kabul and also various parts of India. Many intelligence agencies have reported that these attacks were handiwork of ISI, which was tightly kept under the leash by General Musharraf. Now there are fears for the stability in South Asian region as many believe the Government may not be able to control both ISI and extremist elements the way Musharraf contorlled.

Much anticipated Akhil Kumar lost to Moldovan Gojan Veaceslav in a rather one sided match. Akhil who was epitome of confidence after beating defending world champion from Russia had made many to watchout for him.The result was a shock to many in Indian camp as his quarterfinal opponent was not popular boxer either.

But two other Indians have the quarter finals of Boxing in Beijing. Jitender (51kg) and Vijender (75kg) remain in the fray for their respective quarterfinals on wednesday.

India has been having a dismal olympics after a sole gold medal from shooting.