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Iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is in negotiations to become a voice giving directions on a satnav. At least that’s what he told listeners to his The Time Radio Hour, claiming he’d been approached by more than one manufacturer. He said:
“You know I don’t usually like to tell people what I’m doing, but I’m talking to a couple of car companies about the possibility of being the voice of their GPS system.”
Back in 2003, an episode of animated comedy show The Simpsons revealed that Homer Simpson’s e-mail address was chunkylover53@aol.com – an address that was actually registered by one of the show’s writers. Plenty of people added Chunkylover53 to their AIM buddy list – although the name remained very dormant.
Now the name is being used again – but this time it’s spreading a Trojan.
On AIM, Chunkylover53 – which is not related to the e-mail address – has a new away message, promising those who click on the link an exclusive Internet-only episode of The Simpsons. In fact, the executable file is kimya.exe, which infects the computer with a Trojan and makes the machine part of a botnet. The work is the bay of a Turkish hacking group.
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Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson stole the show during Sunday’s Super Bowl, attracting almost twice as many viewers as the most thrilling moments on the field, according to an annual measurementof second-by-second viewership in TiVo households.
The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used TiVo’s unique capabilities to pause and replay live television to view the incident again and again. Overall, the halftime extravaganza had a powerful grip on viewers. According to TiVo’s analysis of aggregated data from an anonymous sample of 20,000 households, viewership of the game’s intermission increased by 12 percent compared to last year’s halftime show.
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