University of Massachusetts researchers are making breakthroughs in nanotechnology. UMass has a new research center whose focus is to advance breakthroughs in nanotechnology, then to turn those breakthroughs into commercial products and applications.

Time Addressable Storage is a new form of data storage designed to exactly recreate data from any previous point in time. This could be the answer to corporations’ current daily-backup data storage solution.

A fraudulent email, claiming to be from the FDIC (Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation) claims the recipient’s account has been denied coverage due to possible violations of the Patriot Act. The notice then requests that the victims ‘confirm’ their personal information by logging into a false FDIC web site.

I realized that I failed to include the link with this news item on Friday, so here’s the story again with the link included. A graduate student has been indicted on charges of distributing a variation of the Blaster virus. A Romanian court handed down charges that the worm affected 27 computers at a university in northeastern Romania. The charges carry a penalty of 15 years in prison.

As spam filters adapt, so too does the spam. Semantic alteration is one method spammers use to attempt to defeat filters.

AOL is testing a new antispam filter that’s intended to trace the origin of incoming email. Find out more in this story from CNET.

In an effort to one-up the competition, Best Western will begin offering free high-speed Internet service in all 2300 of its hotel in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of Kyocera model 7135 Smartphone batteries. The batteries can short-circuit resulting in excessive heat production or even explosion.

eLearning Dynamics will be releasing LearnTracfx, a file exchange application for wireless-enabled classrooms. The platform will allow teachers to distribute and collect assignments and study materials to the entire class, select groups or students simultaneously.

Kanguru Solutions is releasing their newest data solution, a card reader that will burn the data to a CD. The device will work with CompactFlash, IBM Micro Drive, Smart Media, SD, Memory Stick, and MMC cards.