Powerful parental controls in prospect for Leopard

Apple is lining up powerful new parental controls in next year's release of OS X 10.5 Leopard, evidenced by screenshots from the latest developer build. The grabs show a new Parental Controls preference pane that provides four areas in which access to the Mac, websites, email and chat can be restricted by the system's administrator. ...more

Advertisers wary of Gmail, Google introduces graphical ads

Advertisers want to buy space on Google's nascent Gmail service. They just do not want to pay as much for them as they do for the current Adwords programme. These not-exactly-unsurprising results come from a survey by Internet consultancy Mosaic Media. ...more

Search engines want your phone

The battle to colonise the mobile space for search is hotting up. Both Yahoo! and Google have announced plans to extend their presence in the UK. Following the launch of a similar personalised mobile service in the US at the beginning of the year, Google UK has followed suit and is now offering a number of its existing services through XHTML enabled mobile phones. ...more

In the wake of Donk-D, comes the Randex worms

Following in the recent wake of Donk-D comes reports of more network worms, according to anti-virus specialist Sophos. Like the Donk worm, the Randex variants are network worms with backdoor capabilities. Potentially, this allows a remote attacker to control an infected computer. ...more

BPI banks on British desire for legal music

A BPI survey has revealed 2.5m people in the UK are burning 126m CDs every year. BPI executive chairman Peter Jamieson said, 'This survey provides a unique insight into the greatest growth opportunity for the music industry since the launch of the compact disc. ...more