UPDATED: Apple tackles latest OS X security problems

Apple has released the latest security update for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10. ...more

CD sales slump 20 per cent in US

CD sales in the US slumped by 20 per cent in the first three months of the year, with digital sales rising nowhere near enough to compensate. Despite a 54 per cent surge in downloads, according to the figures from Nielsen SoundScan, overall unit sales were down 10 per cent. Even adding ringtones and subscription services makes no difference to the overall picture. ...more

Concept futures

More sickly sweet than Spielberg, NTT DoCoMo's vision of the future, chocabloc with prototype products comes courtesy of a 13-minute film on its Web site. Having launched its 3G FOMA service, the company must be hoping to 'educate people' to put down the voice call and pick up the data service - it starts with FOMA videophones and leads on to holographic images and happy families.. ...more

Chips are up for gambling Aussies

It seems our cousins down under find it hard to fight the lure of cyber casinos. More than 80 per cent of adult Australians gamble, spending twice the amount compared with their American or European peers and losing an average of 3 per cent of their income on games of chance. To combat this rising tide of gambling, the Australian government has decided to ban Internet casinos for a year, with offending sites facing criminal charges and a fine of up to a million Australian dollars (around ?380,000) per day. ...more

IBM launches new low power multi core PPC chips

IBM has announced a new set of PowerPC chips, including dual core and lower power versions, at the Power Everywhere forum in Tokyo. The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX running at between 1.4 and 2. ...more