London to recycle by mobile

The Mayor of London has welcomed a new service that allows Londoners to get information about their local recycling facilities via their mobile phone. Recycling rates for the capital are only 13.2 per cent at the moment. ...more

Mobile antivirus engine in development

NTT DoCoMo and Network Associates have developed the basis for an antivirus engine optimised for mobile phones, which they hope will be adopted as an international standard. The emergence of ever-more sophisticated phones, capable of delivering advanced data services, coupled with the convergence of devices towards communication over IP, can only mean that mobile phone networks will become more vulnerable to virus attacks, and the handsets more attractive targets. Sal Viveros, Wireless Security Evangelist at Network Associates, said that the appearance of viruses for mobile phone will mirror the first appearance of viruses for computers. ...more

Telewest plans huge infrastructure upgrade

Telewest, best known as a cable TV company, is upgrading its infrastructure to enable it to converge its four main businesses of voice, video, Broadband and business data into a a more streamlined whole based on Gigabit networking technology. The company wants to expand its broadband capacity in order to roll out its upcoming TV-on-demand (TVOD) services. In addition, it needs extra bandwidth to cope with the growth of new broadband services and extend the company's high-bandwidth Ethernet and IP Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) services to more business customers by doubling the number of business hub sites in the network. ...more

Sony shows seven Cyber-shots

Sony has unveiled seven new Cyber-shot digital cameras, ranging from the ultra-slim T20 to the infra-red equipped H7 and H9. The 8.1 megapixel T20 (pictured) offers the highest resolution of any Sony T-series Cyber-shot. ...more

Word suffers highly critical flaw

A buffer-overflow vulnerability has been detected in Microsoft Word, according to a new advisory issued by Secunia. Denial of service attacks are possible due to an input validation error when processing documents. The potential buffer overflow, reports Secunia, can cause the process to crash when the user opens a specially crafted document. ...more