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  • 29 March 2007

  • News: Web fraud costs UK victims £875 each year

    Internet fraud victims lost an average of £875 in the past 12 months, according to a safety campaign fronted by the UK government, and sponsored by eBay, Microsoft, HSBC and BT, among others.

  • News: Boot Camp enables first Vista-based Macs

    Apple has released its latest Boot Camp 1.2 beta, delivering support for 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. Boot Camp is Apple software that lets users run Windows in a separate partition on their Intel-based Mac.

  • News: Citizendium opens up on Wikipedia-killer

    Larry Sanger's answer to Wikipedia is a new online encyclopedia called Citizendium, which was launched to the public on Tuesday. Sanger, Citizendium's editor-in-chief and co-founder of Wikipedia, recently spoke to PC Advisor’s sister title Computerworld about the launch and why this time around he’s tweaking the ‘ignore all the rules philosophy’ he backed when building Wikipedia.

  • News: Vista fix repairs Apple iTunes & iPod bug

    Microsoft has released several fixes for Windows Vista bugs, including one involving the ubiquitous iPod music player that Apple didn't fix in an iTunes update three weeks ago.

  • News: New Opera browsers target IE & Firefox

    Opera Software released two technologies to beta testing, one to give web browser users a more convenient way to access their most visited sites, and another that shows off the next version of the Opera Mobile browser for Windows Mobile devices.

  • News: Super-efficient Core 2 chips coming this year

    Intel has promised to produce its next-generation ‘Penryn’ processors by the end of 2007, using greater power efficiency to push improved Core 2 and Xeon chips to speeds over 3GHz.

  • News: Yahoo Mail to get new apps & plug-ins

    Yahoo is opening up its web mail platform to external developers, so that they can create plug-ins, utilities and applications for the popular Yahoo Mail service.

  • News: Acer investigates HP patent claims

    Fast-growing PC vendor Acer is investigating allegations that its products infringe on patents held by rival HP.

  • News: PS3 upgrade as Sony plans 80GB version

    Sony to fight back against Microsoft's Xbox upgrade with a higher-capacity PlayStation 3, according to documents uncovered in the US

  • News: Social workers to get PDAs & laptops

    The UK government has announced £13m funding to boost mobile working by children's social workers.

  • News: VoIP firm Vonage on the brink?

    Vonage's lacklustre IPO (initial public offering) and ongoing patent troubles are leading some financial analysts to speculate about the company's long-term viability.

  • 28 March 2007

  • News: Sony claims Blu-ray has HD sewn up

    Sony is to launch a consumer Blu-ray player in Europe this summer, claiming the same device was an overwhelming success in Japan, where it was launched last year. Sales figures it cited today suggest that rival high-definition format HD-DVD has been marginalised, with Blu-ray accounting for more than 95 percent of the player/recorder market in Japan, the test market for HD devices.

  • News: Google Pack adds free security tools

    Google has added Symantec’s Norton Security Scan and PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor Starter Edition to the free Google pack download.

  • News: Police fret over hackers' secret IM network

    Hackers have built their own encrypted IM (instant-messaging) program to shield themselves from police trying to spy on their communication.

  • News: Sony expands UK digital SLR range

    Sony announced at the Sony Media Experience 2007 event in Rhodes yesterday that it will add two more digital SLR cameras to its lineup, both of which will be branded Alpha and will "sit alongside" the company's existing A100 model launched last July.

  • News: Critical bugs in StarOffice & OpenOffice

    Bugs in Sun Microsystems's StarOffice and OpenOffice.org's OpenOffice application suites allow attackers to snatch control of a computer by serving up malicious documents or URLs, the two organisations have revealed.

  • News: LG & Google in mobile phone deal

    LG Electronics plans to launch at least 10 mobile phones this year with preinstalled software and services from Google, the two companies announced today.

  • News: Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage

    Yahoo will give users of its free web-based email service access to unlimited storage capacity starting in May, according to a post on a company blog.

  • News: Higher-spec Xbox 360 launching next month

    Microsoft reveals plans to release an upgraded version of its Xbox 360 console next month, and intends to undercut the PS3, at least the US

  • News: PS3 breaks UK sales record

    Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) sold more than 165,000 units in the UK in the first two days on sale – more than both the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 during their respective launch weekends.

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