IBM releases new 1.7GHz PCs

IBM has announced 17 PCs based on Intel's new 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor. The new models include five IntelliStation M Pro workstations and 12 NetVista A60 (pictured) business and A60i home desktop systems. ...more

Cabir authors create first Windows Mobile virus

A notorious group of virus writers have targeted another mobile operating system with the first virus for Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. Moscow-based anti-virus experts Kaspersky Labs says it has analysed a virus called Duts that infects the Windows Mobile operating system used in PDAs and mobile phones. The company says it believes the virus to be written by Ratter, the pseudonym of a member of the virus-writing group 29A who were also behind last month's Cabir - the first mobile phone virus on the Symbian platform, which spread via Bluetooth wireless links. ...more

Nokia scrapes back mobile market as phone sales boom

Booming worldwide sales of mobile phones helped Nokia to lift its market share slightly in the second quarter of 2004 according to the latest figures released by Gartner. Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 35 per cent in the second quarter of this year to over 156.4 million handsets worldwide. ...more

Nokia stock rises on Cisco links

Nokia shares were up sharply this morning after a UK newspaper suggested that the phone maker is being eyed by Cisco. Sunday Business claimed that the network and communications hardware giant is on the lookout for a wireless infrastructure company, with the Finnish outfit identified as the most likely target. The paper said that Cisco, faced with the increasing convergence of fixed line and wireless services, needs technology to create intelligent wireless applications, technology that Nokia could provide. ...more

BSkyB suspends Net content after Microsoft patches DRM

BSkyB has suspended film downloads and Web access to sports clips until Microsoft patches a breach in the DRM technology designed to prevent unauthorised copying of the content. Sky said that the services would remain offline until the flaw had been fixed. 'We took this step as a precaution after Microsoft said it was working on an update to its Digital Rights Management software, which is used to protect content on Sky by broadband against unauthorised copying or distribution,' a spokesman for the satellite TV and broadband provider said. ...more