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  • 11 April 2007

  • News: Microsoft investigates Office 2007 flaws

    Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word 2007, and other software. Hackers have not yet exploited the Word 2007 flaws, however.

  • News: Google to run worldwide developer day

    Google is trying to encourage more developers to use its web services software platform by running a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on 31 May.

  • News: Apple 'did not prevent Apple TV hacks'

    Apple has denied reports that it's enabled a "backdoor" into the Apple TV which enables the company to prevent unsupported hacks.

  • News: Apple iPhone emulator available online

    Before Apple's iPhone even hits the shelves, Pocket PC users can now get the look and feel of the iPhone.

  • News: Microsoft changes 'Vista Capable' branding

    Microsoft's website now sports a revised, more specific description of what the "Windows Vista Capable" logo means. The change occurred only days after Microsoft was sued over its 2006 marketing program, and follows weeks of grumbling from users.

  • News: Google launches 'genocide map'

    Google yesterday joined up with the US Holocaust Memorial to unveil an online-mapping initiative aimed at educating users about genocide.

  • News: Smartphones under attack in 2007

    McAfee predicts that 2007 will be the year when online criminals truly begin aiming their work at smartphones. McAfee's Sage journal - a round-up of the company's ongoing security research - says this is because increasing numbers of PC-like handheld devices are finding their way into the hands of an increasing number of enterprise users.

  • News: McAfee predicts cybercrime meltdown

    Research from McAfee's Avert Labs predicts a nightmare future of more sophisticated cybercrime and the development of further technological means to carry out external attacks.

  • News: Laptop PC sales continue to soar

    User uptake of mobile PCs continues to grow. Laptop PC shipments at the world's two largest contract notebook computer makers rocketed during March, according to the Taiwanese companies involved.

  • News: Microsoft releases critical Windows fixes

    Microsoft yesterday released its regularly scheduled batch of security patches. This month's Patch Tuesday includes three fixes for critical flaws in Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system).

  • 10 April 2007

  • News: Positive Windows Vista uptake revealed

    Nearly 25 percent of PC Advisor pollsters upgraded to Windows Vista, just two months after the operating system’s UK consumer release.

  • Opinion: How much would you pay for a PS3?

    Sony's PlayStation 3 pricing policy has long been grist to PC Advisor's internet rumour mill, but it's an issue that just won't go away.

  • Opinion: Tokyo flooded as Second Life suffers climate change

    Second Life is increasingly being used by major brands and advertising agencies to promote their products – allowing Second Lifers to buy virtual Nike trainers from Niketown in Second Life, lattés in their 'local' Starbucks and to have a beer or two in Heineken-branded bars in the virtual world.

  • News: Windows flaw targeted by 2000+ websites

    More than 2,000 unique websites have been rigged to exploit the animated cursor security flaw in Microsoft's software, according to security vendor Websense.

  • News: Cheap PS3 offers continue

    UK retailers are offering cut-price PlayStation 3s (PS3s) just a month after the console launched.

  • Opinion: Bullet-proof iPod saved my life – the truth

    Everyone knows it’s a must-have for music fans, but now it's being put forward as an essential life-saving accessory for soldiers. Apple’s iPod apparently saved the life of an American soldier serving in Iraq, if pictures posted on Flickr are anything to be believed.

  • Opinion: Bullet-proof iPod saved my life – the truth

    Everyone knows it’s a must-have for music fans, but now it's being put forward as an essential life-saving accessory for soldiers. Apple’s iPod apparently saved the life of an American soldier serving in Iraq, if pictures posted on Flickr are anything to be believed.

  • News: Copycat Google threatened by Sohu

    Sohu.com has threatened to sue Google for violating its intellectual property rights, and renewed a demand for the company to stop downloads of a Chinese software tool based, in part, on one of its own databases.

  • News: Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2.0 RC1

    Mozilla has posted release candidate code for the newest version of its email client, Thunderbird 2.0, which emphasises message organisation and support for Windows Vista (see our first look at Thunderbird 2.0 here).

  • Opinion: An old way to waste time

    A UK poll claims that Scottish people are the biggest time wasters when using the web. More than 60 per cent of surfing Scots admit to aimlessly browsing or 'Wilfing' ("What was I looking for?") when online.

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