DTI broadens wireless broadband options

The DTI is forging ahead with its vision for a Broadband Britain, announcing the deregulation of more areas of the radio spectrum. The new rules will open up the 5GHz and 58GHz parts of the radio spectrum to commercial networks and other users from 12 February. E-Commerce Minister Stephen Timms said: 'Broadband is surging ahead in the UK, and this initiative will make it more widely available. ...more

Trojan WMVs download a dictionary of spyware

Microsoft's rights management technology is already being sussed out by hackers, and the result is a pair of wmv files that instead of downloading licences to validate them, download a dictionary of spyware. PandaLabs says it has picked up copies of WmvDownloader.A and WmvDownloader. ...more

World's largest computing grid goes live

The world's largest permanent computing grid has gone online, giving scientists access to the processing power of 6,000 computers at 78 locations, including 1,000 at 12 sites across the UK. The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) is designed to be big enough to handle the 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data that will be generated each year by the large hadron collider at CERN, Europe's particle physics laboratory In Geneva, Switzerland. By 2007, LCG will be able to generate the processing power of the equivalent of 100,000 of the fastest computers, creating a 'virtual supercomputer' that can be expanded as required. ...more

YouTube geared for mobile launch next year

The video-sharing giant is building a service to allow users into the site direct from their phones and PDAs. YouTube, the popular online video sharing site, said yesterday that it hopes to launch a service for wireless devices within a year. Chad Hurley, YouTube chief executive and co-founder, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company. ...more

Intel sees flat market

Chip giant Intel saw its net income more than double in the Q2 2003 compared to the equivalent quarter in 2002 when the IT market was approaching rock bottom. The company has announced profits of $896 million compared to $446 million in 2002. Much of the increased profit compared to the 2002 figures were due to last year's write downs of areas like online services totalling $218 million. ...more