Fujifilm gears up for a digicam Christmas

It's certainly camera season at the moment: Fujifilm is releasing three new budget digital cameras this October. The top end offering, the FinePix 2600 Zoom, features a 2megapixel CCD and 3x optical zoom, enhanced by a digital zoom for a maximum 7.5x magnification. ...more

Apple releases security updates for three flavours of X

Apple has released several security updates, covering various generations of OS X and OS X Server. The updates provide a number of security enhancements in several areas and for applications including Mail and Safari. Security Update 2004-01-26 is available via Software Update or from the following links: OS X 10. ...more

Revenues set to rocket for phone games

According to a new study, the mobile gaming market is now worth $1 billion (?545 million) worldwide, and revenues are set to grow to $6bn (?3.3 billion) by 2010. With Korea and Japan accounting for the vast majority of games download revenues today, it is estimated that Western Europe and North America are around two to three years behind the Far East in terms of games handset penetration. ...more

W3C breeds Incubator Activity

Incubator Activity is stirring at the W3C. The World Wide Web Consortium, the body that controls Internet standards, has launched a new initiative to help foster the rapid development of new Web-related concepts and technologies, ready for subsequent standardisation. According to the W3C, the Incubator Activity should offer the 'Web community' a streamlined process for 'discussing and developing interesting and possibly controversial ideas that are not (or not yet) clear candidates for standardisation'. ...more

Federation Against Software Theft wins big settlement

The UK-based Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) as won a cash settlement of almost ?300,000 against a US chemical transportation organisation. The unnamed company was reported to FAST by one of its members, Achiever Business Solutions (ABS), following the discovery of suspected unlicensed use of ABS software. The federation opened communications with the company, on behalf of ABS, once negotiations had broken down. ...more