DoS attack blamed for Internet outage

A denial of service attack on security website Zonelabs has been blamed for major disruption of the Internet over the past couple of days. According to an anonymous NTL employee's posting on www.frogger. ...more

Dell makes first push for Blu-ray

Dell has announced its first notebook computer with a Blu-ray drive, cementing its long-established support for the optical disc format in preference to HD DVD. Blu-ray is an option on the new XPS M1710 notebook and provides support for playback of the limited but slowly growing number of Blu-ray movie titles. It also allows data burning on both 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray (BD) discs. ...more

Dell launches 624MHz Axim handheld

Dell today launched a new Pocket PC PDA at its annual EMEA Product Showcase in Cannes, France, with wireless connectivity and Intel's new PXA270 processor. The Axim X30 features the latest version of Microsoft's OS for handhelds - Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition for Pocket PC - and is available in three configurations. Two of these include both Bluetooth and 802. ...more

Apple profits dance to the tune of the iPod

The music division of Apple helped the company to triple its second quarter earnings according to figures released yesterday. Apple said it made a total of $61 million compared with just $19 million over the same period last year. Revenues increased 30 percent to $2. ...more

US Authors' Guild sues Google

The US Authors' Guild suing Google over copyright infringement. In a class action with the biographer of Abraham Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States, the guild alleges that the search engine is 'massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers'. Google Print is a service whereby searchers can find information about a book, read extracts and buy it. ...more