Skulls variant threatens Nokia phones

A new variant of the Skulls virus for Nokia phones using the Symbian-based Series 60 platform has been discovered. Skulls-D is being touted around the Net as a Macromedia Flash Player with the filename Flash_1[1].1_Full_DotSiS. ...more

Subscription software?

IBM's Global Services unit has launched its Linux Virtual Services to the world. This is its managed hosting facilities where customers can pay for capacity on-demand to run their Linux applications. For the equivalent of $300 per month for each 'service unit', IBM plans to sell the services on the strength that customers only pay for what they need, rather than shelling out for hardware, software and management services capable of coping with any peak condition imaginable. ...more

Tumbleweed loses PC Pro Recommended award

PC Pro has stripped Tumbleweed of its Recommended award for its MailGate NAS appliance (reviewed in the November 2004 issue). We were informed at the time of review that the MailGate would be on sale from ?1,000, but it's come to light that the system was never on sale for this price. Tumbleweed claims this was due to an upgrade to the specification, but the price is now approaching ?4,000. ...more

CES 2007: Blu-ray Association declares premature victory

The Blu-ray Disc Association announced at its CES press conference that it is already victorious in the high-definition format war. Lining up Hollywood film executives from Sony, Warner and Fox Pictures, chair of the US Promotions committee, Andy Parsons, cited the format's alleged "content advantage". With 25 companies now having released Blu-ray products and around 170 film and audio titles announced, Blu-ray media sales outstripped rival HD DVD discs for the first time in December. ...more

Another anti-virus test defeats Microsoft Live OneCare

According to a new set of tests, Microsoft's anti-malware product, Live OneCare has again trailed in tests against rival products. The software was only one of 17 products that failed to come up to scratch in a run-off conducted by Austrian anti-virus testing company AV Comparatives. Live OneCare only managed to detect 82. ...more