Calverton, (US): Seconds after she announces her presence in an online chatroom, the girl is besieged by a half-dozen men who want to know more about her. ''r u a virgin?'' one man asks, after about a dozen quick exchanges that begin with her age (13) and why she is home on a school day (illness). The edgy online banter is taking place in an AOL chat room ostensibly for women who like older men, but known as a forum for men who want to make contact with girls

Finnish mobile giant Nokia is to team up with Internet search giant Google Inc to introduce a Wi-Fi device, the Wall Street Journal reported in its Friday editions. Nokia's handheld Internet browsing device will now feature Google Talk, the instant messaging tool offered by Google. The product in question is the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, which is the first device from Nokia not to include a cell phone. This will now be upgraded

The introduction of the Baidu encyclopedia service comes after access to San Diego-based Wikipedia was blocked in China because it contained dangerous content to the government. Baidupedia, which is supposed to offer information written by its users, is censoring the material submitted for posting, acquired more than 100,000 search terms and has 300,000 registered users 20 days after its launch last month. The No

MTV Networks Inc. in cooperation with Microsoft will introduce on Wednesday the beta of a new online music service, called Urge, that will be integrated in Windows Media Player 11, also to be launched on Wednesday. Urge will have more than 2 million tracks, which can be purchased for 99 cents each or as full albums starting at $9.95. Urge is also offering a two-week trial without requiring any commitment or credit card number

A U.S. judge ruled on Monday in favor of Apple Computer Inc. in the latter's right to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store. Early on Apple Corps Ltd., the guardian of the Beatles' commercial interests, filed a lawsuit, charging the U.S. company of having broken a 1991 agreement in which each agreed not to infringe on the other's field of business

China has overtaken the US as the major distributor of spy and malware, the latest trend report from Webroot has claimed. The company used its “Phileas” malware tracking system to reckon China’s proportion of global spyware as being 42 percent for the first quarter of 2006, with the US a distant second at 17 percent. This reverses the figures for Q4 of 2005, where the US was ahead

An interview in which Silver Peak claimed to be able to accelerate UDP drew something of a counterblast from Riverbed. Among other things, it commented that, "Virtually all enterprise traffic runs on TCP, which is why companies such as Riverbed focus on TCP", and "Although 40 percent of traffic is UDP, you can't accelerate it so its relevance in the market is reduced." But is that true? I put the point back to Silver Peak's product marketing director Jeff Aaron

Novell's SUSE Linux 10.1, code-named the "Agama Lizard," is now available for download in its final form. SUSE Linux developer Andreas Jaeger noted in a March posting to the openSUSE mailing list that the release schedule was revised to "strengthen the quality of SUSE Linux 10.1." At the time, Jaeger mentioned two areas to be strengthened: virtualization and package management features. The Xen open source hypervisor is part of SUSE Linux 10.1

The release of Pro Evolution Soccer 6 in the second half of 2006 will signal the arrival of Konami's famed soccer series - also known as Winning Eleven in Japan - on the next generation consoles. Surprisingly enough, only the Xbox 360 version of Pro Evolution Soccer 6 was confirmed by Konami so far, though its release date is the same as the previously announced PC, PS2 and PSP versions - Q3 2006

Google announced new technologies to enhance and improve the search experience. Three new products - Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4, and Google Notebook - advance the state of the art in search by helping users worldwide find and share more relevant information. The products all incorporate new capabilities that leverage user communities, enabling users to either share more information with others or benefit from other users' expertise to improve the accuracy of search results