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  • 24 January 2006

  • News: Botnet hacker pleads guilty

    A computer hacker responsible for creating armies of computers to launch internet-based attacks and selling those 'botnets' to spammers and other miscreants pleaded guilty yesterday to federal criminal charges in Los Angeles.

  • News: Google News emerges from beta

    Google has added search-based features to its news site, which yesterday emerged from beta testing more than three years after its introduction, according to a company spokeswoman.

  • News: EC grants extension for Microsoft

    Update: the EC has given Microsoft an additional month to comply with a part of its antitrust ruling that requires the firm to provide information allowing competitors' server products to interoperate with its software.

  • News: iMac performance claims a fudge

    Steve Jobs' much publicised claim of a two- to three-times speed increase in the new Intel-based iMac is bunkem, according to the latest benchmark tests.

  • 23 January 2006

  • News: Microsoft to succeed Vista with Vienna

    Microsoft has announced a different codename for the Windows OS that will follow Vista: Vienna.

  • News: Nokia seeks patent for mobile emergency feature

    Women, children, millionaires and just about anyone worried about being assaulted or kidnapped should be interested in a mobile phone emergency feature being developed by Nokia.

  • News: Trojan Horses threaten mobile phones

    Three malicious programs are hitting certain mobile phones, antivirus companies have warned. The Trojan Horses, or programs that are disguised as legitimate applications, spread via Bluetooth or multimedia messages and can affect phones running the Symbian operating system.

  • News: Microsoft offers small-business resources

    Microsoft will begin an eight-country rollout of a new set of online resources and technical support for its small-business customers today, a company executive said on Friday.

  • News: Nyxem worm to emerge on 3 February

    Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly spreading worm that is carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. Nyxem – also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm – is programmed to overwrite all the files on computers it infects on 3 February.

  • News: Nokia, Intel and others back mobile TV standard

    Mobile telecoms heavyweights Nokia, Motorola and Texas Instruments are among the founding members of a group introduced today that backs the DVB-H mobile TV standard in North America. The Mobile DTV Alliance will meet Qualcomm, with its competing Mediaflo technology, head-on.

  • News: Eight arrests over phishing operation

    Authorities in Bulgaria last week arrested eight people who allegedly stole financial information using a variety of fake web pages carrying Microsoft logos, netting the group at least £28,000.

  • News: Adobe software turns 3D images to PDFs

    Adobe is releasing software that will allow designers and engineers to save 3D images as PDF files and share them with anyone who has the free Adobe Acrobat reader, the company has said.

  • News: Tokyo Stock Exchange adds trading capacity

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange added capacity to its trading system over the weekend in the hope of avoiding another embarrassing market shutdown in the coming week.

  • News: Google, Apple most influential brands

    Google regained its title as the world's most influential brand in 2005, displacing Apple for the second time this decade, according to a poll.

  • 22 January 2006

  • News: Tokyo Stock Exchange mulls system upgrade

    An increase in trading capacity at the Tokyo Stock Exchange may happen earlier than planned after problems keeping up with volume forced a shutdown earlier this week, the market operator said.

  • 21 January 2006

  • News: Expert warns of short life for burned CDs

    Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM, has his own view.

  • 20 January 2006

  • News: White House wrestles Google for search records

    The US government is asking a California court to force Google to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding pornography on the internet.

  • News: German court shuts down Wikipedia.de

    A German court has ordered the shutdown of the German-language version of Wikipedia, the multilingual open-access encyclopedia available on the internet, after the family of a deceased hacker filed a lawsuit against Wikimedia for using the man's full name in an entry.

  • News: Sony plans digital SLR launch this year

  • News: WiMax Forum certifies first batch of gear

    The WiMax Forum reached a long-awaited goal yesterday, putting its first four seals of approval on a batch of products that use the new wireless broadband technology.

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