Archos 7

Sounds like a weapon from the future, doesn’t it? In reality it is a media tablet, a travel partner. Still confused? Well, Archos 7 is a hand-held device, with which you can access the internet, media content and TV.

It has a 7 inch screen with, 800 pixel resolution and can store up-to 320 GB of images, videos, music and data. You can stay connected with the world, using the built in WiFi. This device works on a Linux OS, and can play the most common formats of images, music and video.


It has email software, which configures POP email and allows you to check and reply to mails on the go. You wouldn’t need to zoom in and out of the web pages; you can view them in full screen. It also have a lot of business application widgets, you can say that it has all the features of business need. Well it can also connect to your PC with WiFi and play contents on the PC on the device. You can even record TV shows (with the optional DVR station) and keep watching them till you like.

With this device you get, web on the go, you’re whole digital library in one device, and a TV experience. If you are ever stuck either in a traffic jam, or even in an elevator, you can have Archos 7 as daily partner.

World War III - Bots Attack

Ever heard of Bots attack? The technical name is “Distributed Denial of Services Attack.”

Keeping it very simple, well this is how it works. A bot-neck is a network of one lakh nodes. Using software, one can launch millions of info bombs at a target node from the bot nodes, crashing all defenses, bringing the network down, thereby denying total services at the nodes.

The info-bombs can be as simple as spam, phishing, and millions of packets of simple information. These are capable of bringing down services of large and critical infrastructures such as central banks, auction website. A full-fledged attack can last for days

Bot attackers can extort hefty sums of money, for not blocking services. The website/infrastructure owners would lose transactions worth millions; if a DDOS attack is launched targeting them

When bots attack, they create ‘zombies’. These are PCs with no defense, and the software uses these nodes to send out millions of bots to the targeted nodes

These attacks are distributed, and deny services at the targeted nodes; hence they are called Distributed Denial of Services attack.

Well, it is not only a threat to national security; I’d say that the next World War will be fought online.