TimeWarner threatens to set the lawyers on YouTube

The CEO of TimeWarner is threatening to sue YouTube for 'breach of copyright', according to newspaper reports. Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner told The Guardian, 'You can assume we're in negotiations with YouTube and that those negotiations will be kicked up to the Google level in the hope that we can get to some acceptable position.' The threat follows similar warnings from News Corp. ...more

Secure Shell found to be not so secure

A number of vendors' versions of the Secure Shell transport layer are open to attack, a company has found. The SSH transport layer is the source of a whole range of security options which are supposed to protect networks from attack. Among the options SSH provides are strong encryption, cryptographic host authentication, and integrity protection. ...more

Australian faces four years in jail for ?3mn email scam

A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to at least four years behind bars for his part in an email scam that netted him AU$ 5mn (?2.94mn). Nick Marinellis, from Sydney, was allegedly the Australian head of the so-called Nigerian or West African scam, where email was spammed out suggesting the recipient had unclaimed lottery winnings, inheritance and business opportunities they could claim if they sent off a sum to cover administration. ...more

Sun invests in Java

Eighty thousand dollars up for grabs in a Java coding challenge, and $3m of funding for Open Source Java compatibility funding... ...more

Dell Centrinos in on Inspirons and Latitudes

Dell has launched new Inspiron and Latitude notebooks with Centrino technology. Dell's Inspiron 500M starts at ?1,113 including VAT and delivery, and offers the choice of either Intel's 802/11b wireless solution, or Dell's 802.11b/g TrueMobile wireless offering. ...more