BT at it with AT&T - so no change there, then

BT is deep in talks about its plans for restructuring. This weekend the Sunday papers were full of speculating articles about the two companies merging. The Financial Times reported that the two companies would bring together their consumer divisions into a single unit, and that the wireless and business services divisions would follow the same route. ...more

Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0, the new version of its open source email client. The release comes less than a week after Release Candidate 1, which established the final feature set. ...more

DFI claims readiness for X38 chipset and AM2+

DFI claims that it will now be able to have boards available at the launch of both the forthcoming Intel X38 chipset (board pictured), which is expected in August, and AMD's Socket AM2+ , which has no ETA as yet. DFI admits this year hasn't been great for the company, despite winning the much-coveted PC Pro Best Motherboard Manufacturer award. Product Marketing Manger Andrew Ou Yang, however, was quick to explain the troubles of the last year. ...more

Disney says yes to DVD price probe

Disney is the first film studio to agree to the European Commission enquiry into DVD prices. As we reported yesterday, the EC is concerned that European DVD prices are artificially high and that regional coding is stopping Europeans from buying cheaper DVDs abroad. Disney isn't the largest of the studios targeted by the EC. ...more

Pretty Poor Privacy

Researchers in Germany have discovered a major security vulnerability in Network Associates' Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption software. The flaw allows unauthorised third parties to decode encrypted e-mail messages, and stems from the way that PGP handles public certificates. It is possible for a hacker to modify a PGP user's public certificate to add an additional decryption key (ADK), and then use that key to gain access to the encrypted data. ...more