Spreading FireWire: 1394 to run over UWB
The 1394 Trade Association has announced that it will cooperate with the MBOA (Multiband OFDM Alliance) on specifications for wireless 1394 running over the MBOA's...
Piracy and the IT Industry: What's the Impact?
The U.S. government's Trade Representative has called digital piracy a "global scourge." While music and movie piracy is in the news almost daily, in reality...
Sony announces new PSX models for Japan
Sony has announced two new models which will arrive in early December, boasting new software features and minor updates to the hardware. New versions of...
Image flaw exposes Windows PCs
Computer users could be open to attack from malicious hackers because of the way that Windows displays some images. Microsoft has issued a warning about...
Yahoo buys Musicmatch for $160 million
Yahoo will acquire the digital music software and services provider Musicmatch in a cash deal valued at $160 million, the companies announced Tuesday.
Musicmatch, based...
Brazil 'home to 80 per cent of world's hackers'
Federal police in Brazil have declared that eight out of 10 hackers are living in the South American country.
The Brazilian capital Brasilia is hosting...
XP SP2 Escapes Critical Windows Security Flaw
Just visiting a website could be enough to give you a virus.
Microsoft has published a patch for a major security flaw in its software's...
DivXNetworks partners with Plextor
DivXNetworks and Plextor announced that the Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U Personal Video Recorder (PVR) with built-in TV tuner is the first official DivX Certified Personal Video...
JPEG handling flaw threatens PCs, Microsoft warns
A security flaw in the way many Microsoft applications process JPEG images could allow an attacker to gain control over a computer running the software,...
2004 E-CrimeWatch Survey Summary Findings
The 2004 E-Crime Watch survey was conducted by CSO magazine in cooperation with the United States Secret Service & Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institutes...
