Apple unveils 'twice as fast' iMac

Apple has taken the wraps off the first desktop Mac to be powered by an Intel processor. The new iMac runs on a Core Duo chip said to be twice as fast as the PowerPC G5 that it replaces. It includes the new iLife '06 suite of applications, which with its Universal Binary code is optimised to run natively on the new hardware. ...more

Crash your browser in five easy steps

Web security site Secunia has discovered a bug in versions of IE 5.0 and above for Windows XP which can crash the browser in just five lines of HTML code. A demonstration of the code can be seen here. ...more

Apple snubbed over free OS X offer to developing countries

Steve Jobs offered to provide free copies of OS X to a project that aims to supply $100 laptops to developing countries, but was turned down. The One Laptop Per Child charity instead opted for Red Hat Linux running on AMD processors, saying that they wanted the users to be able to tinker with the OS. 'We declined because it's not open source,' explained Dr Seymour Papert, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...more

Sophos claims to have detected first OS X worm

Security specialist Sophos has reported what it says is the first OS X worm. The OSX/Leap-A worm spreads via the iChat instant messaging application, forwarding itself as a file called 'latestpics.tgz' (masquerading as screenshots of OS X 10. ...more

Broadband connections rise 250 per cent in 12 months

The number of broadband connections across the UK has risen by 250 per cent over the past year, according to new figures from industry-regulator Oftel. Oftel's latest Internet and Broadband brief shows that there are more than 1.77m broadband subscribers - 960,000 via cable modem and 810,000 via ADSL, compared to around half a million 12 months ago. ...more