2009 June | Billiard Coach - Mike Fieldhammer

Nine Ball Making a Comeback?

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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Not really. Sad that a computer virus gets it in the news better than pro tournaments.

From: http://blogs.channelinsider.com/secure_channel/content/malware_worms_viruses/nine_ball_in_the_hype_cycle.html

If someone is talking about Nine Ball to you today, it’s likely not about a game of billiards. Nine Ball is the latest worm compromising Websites and infecting unsuspecting PCs with a Trojan. Detected less than a week ago by researchers at Websense, the new worm has already compromised more than 40,000 Websites worldwide.

Sounds serious, eh? Perhaps. But there are conflicting reports over the severity of Nine Ball.

Some security vendors, such as Websense and Trend Micro, are warning about the mass injector attack that will lure and redirect unsuspecting Web users to a malicious site and download a Trojan and spyware on their machines. Websense and Trend Micro equate the Nine Ball threat to that of Gumblar and Conficker.

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Brunswick sells Valley-Dynamo division

Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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http://www.ybw.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20090414144655ibinews.html

Brunswick sells Valley-Dynamo unit

By IBI Magazine

Brunswick Corp has sold the assets of its Valley-Dynamo operating unit to a limited partnership based in Texas. The unit manufactures coin-operated billiards, pool tables and air-hockey tables.

“We had earlier identified Valley-Dynamo as a non-core asset, which we intended to sell,” said Daniel Kubera, Brunswick spokesperson, in an email.

Brunswick acquired Valley-Dynamo for US$34.5m in 2003. Two years ago, it moved the company’s manufacturing operations from Dallas, Texas to Reynosa, Mexico.

Kubera said the assets were acquired by a limited partnership controlled by Kelye Stites, owner of Champion Shuffleboard Ltd and other businesses in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

(14 May 2009)