As the World Cup fever subsides, the online world has taken to Zinedine Zidane's headbutt incident with glee and creative humour.  A quick check at popular video sharing site YouTube reveals that 10 out of the top 16 'Most Viewed' videos are creative remakes of the Zidane headbutt.

Here are some I liked:-

1.  A Fire Version (with sound!)

2.  One which offers a great angle at what Materazzi said -

3.  "Zidane saving Materazzi's life"

If you have an interesting Zidane headbutt remake to share, tell us about it at our FIFA World Cup subforum!

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13 July 2006 - Motorola Inc. today announced the appointment of Mohd Asri Hassan Sabri to lead Motorola Malaysia, succeeding Dato' Robin Seo Eng Lin who retired earlier this month after an outstanding 27-year career with Motorola.

Mohd Asri's appointment as country president for Motorola Malaysia takes effect immediately. In his new role, Mohd Asri will work with the country team to further enhance Motorola's business presence in Malaysia as a key employer and investor.

Mohd Asri will continue to lead the sales operations for the two-way radio network systems business of Motorola's Networks & Enterprise business in Malaysia. He will also drive customer relations and business development for the government and enterprise market segments, including security divisions within the Ministries and public safety agencies such as the Military Armed Forces and the Police.

"Mohd Asri's success at Motorola has been outstanding since he joined us in 2003. His dedication and significant contributions to Motorola's business development, especially in the government and public safety sectors, places him in good stead to lead and represent Motorola Malaysia's interests. I would like to thank Robin Seo for his exceptional leadership and many contributions over the years in broadening Motorola's footprint in Malaysia," said Simon Leung, president, Motorola Asia Pacific.

Prior to Motorola, Mohd Asri was with Nokia Malaysia where he held various senior management positions in the wireless infrastructure business. Before that, he was with Digital Equipment/Compaq Corporation (now known as Hewlett-Packard) responsible for corporate business development and channels management.

Mohd Asri will be based in Kuala Lumpur.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday they have begun a limited public test to allow users of the companies' respective instant messaging programs to trade messages with one another.

The agreement to work together, first announced last October, marks a long-awaited breakthrough among major instant messaging services, which include AOL's pioneering AIM service, Microsoft and Yahoo, along with more recent upstarts including eBay Inc.'s Skype and Google's Google Talk.

Specifically, users of an upgraded version of MSN Messenger, recently rebranded "Windows Live," can trade messages with Yahoo Messenger, creating the world's largest instant messaging community, with 350 million accounts.

These instant messaging, or IM, systems allow users to type messages to others on their "buddy list" via computers and in some cases over mobile phones. Historically, each provider sought to create "walled gardens" that prevented users of one IM system from talking to users of rival systems.

Full Story : Reuters

Microsoft plans to give a hacker conference in Asia an inside look at new security features on Windows Vista later this year, the organizer of the event said Tuesday.

The company's commitment to show off Vista to the hacker and security community is part of a long-term trend aimed at gaining greater feedback from users prior to product debuts. More and more software and hardware vendors are trying to weed out vulnerabilities before products go to market, and they often turn to the underground and above ground security community for advice.

"Companies know that fixing vulnerabilities in already released products is always going to be much more expensive than finding and squashing them during the development stage," said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, organizer of the 6th annual Hack In The Box deep knowledge security conference (HITBSecConf2006) set for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September.

"At the end of the day it also doesn't help an organization's image when critical bugs are found which could have been trivially fixed from the start," he added.

The Hack In The Box conference will host two speakers from Microsoft.

Full Story : PCWorld
Related Link : Hack In The Box,  HITBSecConf2006

Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software.

From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.

The firm will also stop providing security updates for Windows 98 from the same date. Support for the software was originally due to end in 2003, but was extended following customer protests.

Products affected by closing down the support system include Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me (Millennium Edition). Analyst firm IDC believes that more than 70 million users will be hit by the change. The majority of these people are likely to be using the operating system at home, as by now most large businesses have phased out machines running the software.

Many small firms are also believed to be users of the product. Microsoft ended free support for this trio of products in late 2003 but continued to offer paid support and provide critical security updates. This too will now stop.

Full Story : BBC News 

Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to post gains in market share, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, while usage of Internet Explorer has fallen more than 2 percent since May. Opera, meanwhile, has surpassed 1 percent market share worldwide.

Worldwide, Firefox now holds 12.93 percent of the market, up from 11.79 percent in May. The open source browser commands a 15.82 percent usage share in the United States, and a whopping 39.02 percent in Germany. Australians are also big Firefox users, with the browser holding 24.23 percent of the market down under.

Internet Explorer use worldwide has fallen below 80 percent in the United States to 79.78 percent, according to OneStat, although IE still accounts for 83.05 percent of the browser market globally. British Web surfers are the biggest IE users, giving Microsoft's browser 86.23 percent of the market.

Opera, which recently launched version 9.0 of its now-free namesake browser, continues to inch up the rankings. Usage of Opera is 4.69 percent in Australia and over 1 percent in Canada and Germany. Worldwide, Opera accounts for exactly 1 percent of the browser market, OneStat says.

Source: Betanews

LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - The British music industry stepped up its campaign against illegal file-sharing on Monday by demanding that two Internet service providers suspend 59 accounts it believes are being used to swap copyrighted songs.

The British Phonographic Industry trade group called on Cable & Wireless and Tiscali to join a crusade against consumer practices that have undermined music companies in recent years.

"We have said for months that it is unacceptable for ISPs to turn a blind eye to industrial-scale copyright infringement," BPI Chairman Peter Jamieson said in a statement.

"We are providing Tiscali and Cable & Wireless with unequivocal evidence of copyright infringement via their services," he added. "It is now up to them to put their house in order and pull the plug on these people."

A C&W spokeswoman said policies for its ISP Bulldog covered such matters and "would normally mean that any accounts used for illegal file-sharing are closed", though she declined to comment specifically about the evidence or customers cited by BPI. "We will take whatever steps are necessary to put the matter right," she added.

Full Story : Reuters

Scientists have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds, the California Institute of Technology said today. The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

The researchers achieved a speed of 8,609 megabits per second (Mbps) by using 10 simultaneous flows of data over routed paths, the largest aggregate throughput ever accomplished in such a configuration, Caltech said in a news release. "That is 153,000 times that of today's modem and close to 6,000 times that of the common standard for ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) connections."

"The FAST protocol sustained this speed using standard packet size, stably over an extended period on shared networks in the presence of background traffic, making it adaptable for deployment on the world's high-speed production networks," Caltech said.

Full Story : National Geographic

The 'Azzuri' are champions for a fourth time. They held their nerve in a penalty shoot-out to score all five kicks as David Trezeguet missed for France. But this game will be perhaps be remembered for Zinedine Zidane's career ending in disgrace after being dismissed for an off-the-ball incident with Marco Materazzi. He headbutted the Italian defender after a heated discussion on 110 minutes and, after some consultations between officials, was shown the red card.