Nikon launches new digital cameras

Camera manufacturer Nikon has announced a new addition to its CoolPix digital camera range. The CoolPix 995 supersedes the 990 and is a 3.34 megapixel digital still camera with an image resolution of 2048 x 1536 and a 4x zoom. ...more

Pessimistic outlook for online government

'Huge obstacles to overcome' before all services go online At The Internet Goes Public conference today in London, Steven Marsh, director of security at the Office of the e-Envoy, admitted that there were huge obstacles to overcome if the government is to meet its goal of getting all its services online by 2005. He said that above the risks of not meeting the 2005 target, there were worries that services would not be used and that there would be excessive cost in deploying them. Although 70 per cent of services are online today, he was concerned that only the easiest to implement had so far been tackled. ...more

Verisign to keep .net

Verisign will retain control of the .net registry for another six years. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - the body that co-ordinates the organisation of the Internet - made the ruling at the end of last week. ...more

Weekend release for OS X 10.1

Apple is expected to announce later today that OS X 10.1 will be available this weekend, just in time to meet the company's self-imposed September deadline, according to sources in the US. Though 10. ...more

SunnComm changes its DRM ways

Chastised copyright-protection technology company SunnComm has made public its efforts to fix security concerns over its MediaMax software. The company's announcement is in response to an open letter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation calling on it to be more transparent and to ensure consumers' rights and security are not considered the collateral damage associated with protecting copyright content. As such, SunnComm has stated that all future versions of its MediaMax software will only install if the user accepts the end user licence agreement presented when a music CD with this software is inserted into a computer. ...more