Word: bugbears
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...Last month, the company announced price cuts for the iPod mini (to $199 for the 4-GB model) and the iPod photo. Meanwhile, the company that makes the microprocessor brains for the iPod started shipping a new chip last week that consumes less power?meaning that iPod's bugbear, its mediocre battery life, may soon be banished. Advantage Apple. "There's a gap between understanding what users want and being able to provide it," says Susan Kevorkian, a senior research analyst at market-research firm International Data Corp. Apple's main edge, she says, is the iPod's sophisticated software...
...errant e-mails, it now seems, were not due to careless senders but to a clever virus known as Bugbear which can cause confidential e-mails—and lethal attachments—to be dispersed around campus...
...Bugbear caused a stir on campus last June, when it infected machines in University Hall and resulted in several Harvard students receiving e-mails containing confidential memos and information intended only for administrators...
According to Davis, the Bugbear virus may trigger a variety of side effects, ranging from benign to harmful. Some versions of the virus steal sensitive data like passwords and credit card numbers from the infected machine...
Dickerman said she has stopped receiving Bugbear-infected e-mails. “I haven’t received any weird e-mails in the last few days. It looks like the voyeuristic fun and games are over,” she joked...