Lenovo 'sceptical' about Vista

On the day the world discovered the launch date of Vista, Lenovo's vice president of notebook marketing, Marc Godin, suggested take-up of the new OS among businesses would be even slower than the switch to Windows XP. 'I'd love to see a large enterprise tell me why they need Aero Glass,' he said, referring to the advanced graphics capabilities of Vista. 'I'm really sceptical. ...more

Overflow vuln found in iTunes and QuickTime

Apple has announced a vulnerability affecting iTunes and QuickTime that could lead to code being run on the system. The integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affects both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of QuickTime Player 7.0. ...more

EMI withdraws from DRM-free downloading talks

EMI has withdrawn from talks about the possibility of selling DRM-free music downloads, after online store operators baulked at the advance payments that the record company was demanding, according to Bloomberg. The business news service says that EMI was asking for the payment to compensate it for the 'risk' of releasing unrestricted MP3s. It claims that operators including Apple, Microsoft and Real Networks had countered with a lower offer, but this was rejected. ...more

Google refreshes its digital picture management software

Google has released a new version of the digital picture management software it bought last year. The free Picasa 2 download now offers new editing and management tools and CD burning. Amongst the new editing tools are 12 new filters, colour and light adjustment and removal of that bane of any amateur photographer's life - red eye. ...more

Security hole in Sendmail

A security hole has been discovered in versions of Sendmail prior to 8.12.10. ...more