More details emerge on Blaster worm suspect

Further details have emerged about the suspected author of a Blaster worm variant, who was arrested at the end of last week. The eighteen year old involved is one Jeffrey Lee Parson from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Apparently working under an online identity of 'Teekid', the teenager is charged with intentionally causing damage to a computer. ...more

Apple develops iPod Photo

Apple has launched the iPod Photo, a new version of its portable music player which stores and displays photos as well as music. The iPod Photo is the first iPod to come with a colour screen and can store up to 25,000 digital photos alongside a music library. The iPod photo can be connected to a TV to display photo slide shows, and synchs with iPhoto in the same way as current iPods synch with iTunes. ...more

Mozilla stamps out bug

Developers of the open source browser Mozilla have closed a security hole that would allow the program to run remote executables. The bug affects not only the Windows versions of Mozilla but also the separate Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client. Versions for the Mac and Linux are unaffected. ...more

Cost of redundancies and the Kodak Java dispute weigh down Sun

Sun Microsystems pulled ahead of analyst expectations in its latest quarterly results, but overall revenues were shy of targets. Analysts had predicted revenues to average $2.71bn for the quarter ending 26 September, but Sun pulled up short of that to the tune of $2. ...more

Talks tabled to put protected CDs on iPods

Record labels are in talks with Apple to find a way of making copy-protected CDs compatible with iTunes and iPods. Major labels have recently released albums from a number of high-profile artists that include software to prevent them being ripped on a PC. As a result it has come in for scathing criticism from iPod owning fans of the Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews among others. ...more