Mozilla 1.6 released

The Mozilla Organisation has released the latest version of its eponymous Web browser, and although it's not overly laden with new features, there's enough to keep users interested. For those who are interested, much of what is new is listed in the release notes. Mozilla 1. ...more

Printers leak privacy info on every page

An Internet civil rights body has discovered that many printers add an arrangement of yellow dots to each page printed that can allow the authorities to identify the time and date of printing and serial number of the device. 'We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer,' said Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The group looked at printers from many big name brands, such as Xerox, Canon, Epson, Dell and HP, and found that the printers printed these codes onto every page. ...more

Music publishers and online providers bond to smooth download business

Companies and organisations involved in digital music have come together to form a new standards body, the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX). All the big players have signed up for the new body. The likes of EMI Music, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and music rights societies from the US, UK and Spain represent the music industry, while Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks represent the data services side of the equation when it comes to delivering digital music. ...more

Seagate ships 400Gb drive

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology is now shipping what it claims is the world's largest capacity hard drive holding a whopping 400Gb. The Barracuda 7200.8 is fitted with either 8MB or 16MB cache sizes, a 7,200-rpm spin speed, and an 8. ...more

Blackberry to get Google Talk and Google Local

Google's instant-messaging and mapping client for mobile will soon be supported on the BlackBerry wireless platform. The popular handheld device is to get the Google Talk and Google Local services. 'Instant messaging and local content are two increasingly important areas of focus for mobile applications and we are very pleased to work with Google in extending these two popular Google services to BlackBerry users,' said Mark Guibert, VP of Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion, the makers of the Blackberry. ...more