Wellington - Hackers who attacked Microsoft New Zealand's news website left it with a cream pie on founder Bill Gates' face, Wellington's Dominion Post newspaper reported Wednesday on its website.

Visitors to www. msn. co. nz on Tuesday found a blacked-out page with the words "Microsoft New Zealand hacked by Peace Crew," over a photo of a pie-decked Gates, the report said.

The paper quoted a source as saying the hackers attacked a server belonging to web-hosting company Domainz, which redirected traffic to a fake website.

The reports are hot and around that Nokia is planning to update its popular Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone to compete more effectively with the rivals, such as Apple's iPhone, LG Arena, or Samsung's i8910 (Omnia HD) mobile phones.

One of the leading software companies in the world - Oracle Corporation surprised the entire tech world on Monday by declaring that it will acquire the Silicon Valley technology company, Sun Microsystems. The Redwood City, California based Oracle announced that it will purchase Santa Clara, California based Sun Microsystems, Inc. for $7.4 billion in cash.

Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services. It is best known for its Java language, which is one of the computer industry's best known brands for over the past 13 years.

Sprint and Palm are surely very positive about the success of the Palm Pre, and their optimism certainly is not baseless. The Palm Pre is yet to be released, but some of the developers of applications for the phone have already started singing serenades for the Palm Pre.

NetworkWorld has interviewed several app developers working on the Palm Pre's operating system, called webOS and the companion software development kit, Mojo. NetworkWorld has found that some developers are really excited about the phone, but some iota of developers are not at all interested in developing for the Palm Pre and webOS.

Washington, Apr. 21 : Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon''s 300 billion dollar Joint Strike Fighter project - the Defense Department''s costliest weapons program ever - according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.

According to Fox News, the latest intrusions provide new evidence that a battle is heating up between the U. S. and potential adversaries over the data networks that tie the world together.

The marketshare leader in virtualization software – VMware, Inc. is set to unveil its next generation hypervisor, ESX Server 4.0 and the associated tools today. The Palo Alto, California based VMware has claimed that ESX Server 4.0 is a hypervisor that virtualizes compute, storage, and network resources on x64 servers.

According to VMware, ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor has slew of features that help virtual machines to do a number of neat things, like transport around networks of machines or back each other up.