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The biggest names in the Digital Age - over 200 speakers in keynotes and a multi-streamed seminar programme. New products and services from over 300 exhibitors providing solutions to boost your online strategy. Dedicated zones covering all the key digital marketing and business internet areas. This year Internet World 2009 showing at Earls Court 2 in London between 28th - 30th April.

Internet World is Europe's largest, longest running and best attended event for Digital Marketing and Internet business, each year an exhibition attracting over 13,000 visitors and more than 300 exhibitors. In this year Internet World will pass in 17th time and brings everything you need to formulate and implement your online strategy, from Digital Marketing to eCommerce, Content Management to hosting. It showcases the UK’s leading suppliers, delivers Europe’s best free education program and brings together Europe’s largest collection of visionary individuals from marketing, IT, digital and eCommerce.

The exhibition annually collects hundreds of participants, among them representatives of large international companies, such as The Butler Group, DaimlerChrysler, ICI, GMTV, Virgin, Oracle, IBM, Google, Overture, Ask Jeeves, Orange and thousand visitors, who are professionals responsible for presence of firms in the World wide web. This year exhibition will also have key speakers from all areas of the industry, including Barclays and John Lewis, each offering their own expert insight.

Remarkable that over the last 4 years Internet World has experienced unprecedented growth with exhibitor numbers swelling from 100 to over 320 and attendees increasing from 5,000 to over 13,000. It is now firmly established as Europe’s leading event for this Digital Marketing and online business.

Product groups Internet World

-Marketing
-Internet
-Mobile phones
-Software
-Service provider and security
-Management
-Personification users

Each key group will have a dedicated seminar theatre and its own area on the show floor grouping relevant exhibitors together to make it easy for visitors to find everyone they are looking for.

Notes from the author: Mirasoft Group will also participate in Internet World 2009 and will be very glad to arrange a meeting with companies interested in offshore software services and discuss opportunities for possible co-operation. I believe it will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the current needs and to discuss how our services can enhance a capacity for innovation while reducing operating costs.

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Conficker, the Internet worm that caused a panic reminiscent of Y2K late last month, but didn’t make anything serious, has finally woken up. At the end of the week the worm started to update itself via a peer-to-peer network between infected machines after downloading its payload from a server in South Korea.

It’s not clear how many machines were infected, but approximately the figures range from 9 million to 15 million.

While earlier variations of the Conficker worm prevented infected machines from accessing the servers of most antivirus companies, this new variant also blocks access to sites that offer tools for removing the worm like BitDefenders bdtools.net. This version of the worm includes an instruction that tells the worm to remove itself on May 3, but , it will keep a port open on these machines that will allow the hackers to get back into these computers at any time.

According to Symantec, Conficker downloads a variant of the well-known Waledac malware, which is one of the world's most active spambots. There are some speculations around here that Conficker was created by the same group of hackers that created Waledac.

Kaspersky Labs stated that Waledac will download a rogue antivirus application along with email-worm onto infected machines. The fake antivirus software will ask users to pay $49.95 for "Spyware Protect 2009," which, of course, is anything but an antispyware product.

In my previous entries I wrote about negotiations between world's No. 1 and No. 4 makers of server computers IBM and SUN Microsystems respectively, and potential consequences of that deal where merged company would hold 65 percent of the $17 billion market for Unix servers. But things have been dramatically changed since recent developments of the story.

According to The Wall Street Journal IBM has withdraw its offer for Sun Microsystems, its main rival servers supplier, after Sun has sent a notice to IBM terminating its right to exclusive negotiations. Two companies are reported to have been in merger talks for a couple weeks, but they had reportedly been haggling over a price. Eventually last week Sun's board has rejected a formal offer from IBM, considering the offer price too low and declaring concerns that the offer gave IBM too much authority to walk away from the deal.

IBM is believed to have made an initial offer for Sun worth $9.55 per share, but subsequently cut that to $9.40, after its lawyers pored over the details. While Sun shares had risen to $8.49 on last week, from $4.97 on March 17, a day before talks between the two technology companies were first reported. But Failure to secure a deal will raise questions over the future of Sun. By entering into negotiations, its board has potentially signalled a lack of faith in its ability to operate as a standalone company. Shares of Sun Microsystems fall 23 percent on Monday after the company rejected rival IBM's $7 billion offer.