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Wikinews has learned that two users, one anonymous and the other only known as MODX, added code on the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia for a computer virus known as the LoveLetter or ILOVEYOU virus.
The users inserted the VBScript code into various pages including the Wikipedia Sandbox, a page used for editorial testing. This was relatively [...]

Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
The prototype device contains an electric circuit as well as red light-emitting diodes for a display, though it does not yet light up. The [...]

IBM announced fourth quarter earnings of $4.0 billion, up almost 12% from $3.5 billion reported for Q4 2006. Revenues were up 10% from $26.3 billion to $28.9 billion in the same time frame.
For the complete year, IBM reported sales of $98.8 billion, up 8% from $91.4 billion in 2006. Net income for the year [...]

China ended 2007 with 210 million internet users, the second largest worldwide after the US.  Around 73 million Chinese citizens began to use internet last year.
86.6 percent of the people connected to the web use Internet to listen to music and 81.4 percent for telecommunication in real time.

The HP board of directors has declared a regular cash dividend of 8 cents per share on the company’s common stock.
The dividend, the second in HP’s fiscal year 2008, is payable on April 2, 2008, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 12, 2008.
HP has approximately 2.6 billion shares of [...]