iGoogle for personalised homepage

Google has taken a leaf out of Apple's marketing handbook and renamed its Personalised Homepage service as iGoogle. The new moniker had been the company's internal handle for the service, which lets you create a custom Web page comprising search, a calendar, email, news, weather and more. The name 'connotes interactivity, the Internet, and personalisation all at once', according to Sophia Brueckner, an iGoogle software engineer. ...more

Try before you buy

Adobe has released try-out versions of two of its leading graphic design and desktop publishing applications. InDesign 2.0 is a desktop publishing package that provides a wealth of page layout tools as well as tight integration with other Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat. ...more

Adobe buys in extra DRM

Adobe has announced the acquisition of new DRM technologies to increase the document security capabilities of its LiveCycle Policy Server. The FileLine Digital Rights Management division of Navisware has been bought for an undisclosed amount and its technologies will be deployed to persistantly protect documents in PDF, Microsoft Office and CAD formats, independent of how they are stored or delivered inside and outside the firewall. Organisations will be able to control how, when, and by whom the documents can be used while at the same time monitoring an audit log of who accessed the document, and indications of improper usage or disclosure. ...more

Secure CompactFlash agreed

The CompactFlash Association has approved the Secure CompactFlash proposal developed by the Secure CF Work Group at its general meeting in Hawaii. The Secure CompactFlash specification allows for 16 or more content protection methods to be used, with 4Cs Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) being the first content protection system deemed suitable for Secure CF cards. The new secure memory cards will be backwardly compatible with existing media and devices and Secure CF can be implemented on any type of CF card. ...more

Symantec discovers potential worm for Windows SSL vulnerability

Security firms are alarmed at the speed at which a security hole announced by Microsoft has already been exploited by code found in the wild. Symantec says that it has discovered software on the Internet that exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability within Windows Protected Communications Technology (PCT) v. 1. ...more