Toshiba rewrites the notebook

Toshiba announces its first DVD-RW notebook The Satellite 5200 notebook series comes in two flavours: the 801, which features the DVD-burning drive, and the 701, which features a CD-RW combo. They are priced at ?2,499 and ?1,999 inc VAT respectively. Both feature Mobile Pentium 4 chips (2. ...more

SeaMonkey 1.0 takes over from Mozilla Internet suite

Less than a year after Mozilla decided to discontinue its eponymous Internet software suite in favour of the standalone Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client, a group of enthusiasts has released version 1.0 of its successor. SeaMonkey picks up where the Mozilla suite left off, combining a Web browser with email and IRC chat clients and a WYSIWYG Web page builder, but based on the latest version of the Gecko rendering engine (as used by Firefox) and incorporating all the intervening security enhancements. ...more

Microsoft plays down virulence of Plug and Play Zotob worm attack

A worm that exploits the new Microsoft MS05-039 'plug and play' security vulnerability is the latest online threat to grab the headlines. In the latest case this is literally true, as media outlets such as CNN, ABC, The Financial Times, and the New York Times have been high profile victims of the attack. Microsoft issued its last monthly security update on 9 August. ...more

BT profits up 56 per cent

BT has announced a profit before taxation of ?502mn for the last financial quarter, a rise of 56 per cent on the corresponding period last year. Earnings per share rose 64 per cent. The company has also succeeded in wiping $4. ...more

Ex-Samsung execs charged with price fixing

A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted two executives from Samsung and one executive from Hynix America as part of a world wide conspiracy to fix DRAM prices, the US Department of Justice has announced. In total, four companies and 16 individuals have been charged with fines totalling more that $731 million resulting from the Department's ongoing antitrust investigation into the DRAM industry. The $731 million in criminal fines is the second highest total obtained by the Department of Justice in a criminal antitrust investigation into a specific industry. ...more