Microsoft targets the phishers

Microsoft says it plans a legal onslaught on the phishers. Microsoft says it is undertaking a massive legal campaign against the phishers. The company has revealed that by the end of June 2006 it will have started legal actions in more than 100 cases throughout the European, Middle East and Africa against people alleged to behind online fraud. ...more

Adobe betas Soundbooth

Adobe has released a public beta of a new audio recording, creation and editing application. Soundbooth is designed to provide easy-to-use tools for efficient audio production. Video and interactive Web designers can record new dialogue tracks, sound effects or other audio assets or transform existing audio files with tools that cut, copy, paste, fade, stretch, and add effects. ...more

Putting E Ink to Paper 2.0

Dutch company Philips has signed a deal to develop a revolutionary new display with electronic ink company, E Ink. What's electronic ink - or E Ink - I hear you ask? The concept is relatively simple. Within the ink there are millions of tiny microcapsules, each one containing white particles suspended in dark dye and when an electric field is applied to the liquid, the microcapsules become visible. ...more

Apple to begin selling TV shows in Europe 'this spring'

Apple will begin selling television series in Europe this spring, according to Luxembourg's economics minister. Jeannot Krecke told a French news agency that Apple has been in talks with Luxembourg authorities for several months. 'Apple is going to extend its electronic retail activities in Luxembourg by launching this coming spring its iTunes video platform for the sale of videos in Europe,' Krecke told Agence France Presse. ...more

Broadband hopes raised for rural Scotland

The Scottish Executive has told an MP for one of the country's Highland regions that it is looking to bring broadband access to the few rural areas where it remains out of reach. Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, Nicol Stephen told John Thurso, the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross member of Parliament, that it is hoping to begin extending fast broadband access as early as this year, working into 2007. 'Over the past year, we have been collecting data about potential problem areas and have recently appointed independent consultants to assist us in our policy approach to the reach problem,' Stephen told Thurso. ...more