Bill says don't open this email

A new Windows worm which appears to come from Bill@Microsoft.com is loose. The virus W32/Sobig-C is a mass mailing worm. ...more

Microsoft shrugs off IT downturn

World recessions, IT downturns and sluggish PC sales are obviously not enough to constrain the financial success of Microsoft. The results announced last evening were broadly in line with Microsoft's forecast. Fourth quarter revenues of $6. ...more

Kingston cranks up its memory modules - at a price

Kingston Technology has claimed a world's first with a range of 500MHz DDR chips known as HyperX. The new range is aimed squarely at the gaming and overclocking communities. The company is also releasing a range of DDR 466MHz (PC3700) HyperX memory modules. ...more

Tim Berners-Lee pursues Semantic Web at Southampton University

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, is to spread his talents beyond the MIT by taking on a professorship at Southampton University. Berners-Lee will use the position to concentrate on his work on the next generation of the web, known as the Semantic Web: a way of using meta data to give added layers of meaning to online information. It is seen as the long-term solution for making the vast amount of data on the Internet more manageable. ...more

ICANN releases automatic domain checking toolkit

ICANN has released a new toolkit for website designers and software application developers that automatically adds support for new top-level domains (TLDs), including those created since 2001 and any new ones that may be introduced in the future. The organisation, which oversees the domain name system of Internet addresses notes that in addition to the original .com and . ...more