WebKit opens a Web Inspector palette

The WebKit Open Source Project has added a new Web Inspector palette to developer builds of WebKit, the system framework used by Apple's Safari as well as other browsers and applications. The inspector lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact window. It highlights the node on the page as it is selected in the hierarchy and lets users search for nodes by node name, id and CSS class name. ...more

New ATI X-series graphics first to support PCI Express

ATI Technologies has fired its first broadside in the battle for the PCI Express graphics market with the announcement of its Radeon X-Series family of graphics chips. The company expects product announcement from graphics cards vendors at the end of this month with the official unveiling of the PCI Express bus. The three new chips - the Radeons X300, X600 and X800 - are expected to span the whole market from budget conscious home users to state of the art games machines. ...more

RealNetworks sues Microsoft

RealNetworks is to sue Microsoft Corporation for violations under the US antitrust laws. The company alleges that Microsoft has illegally used its monopoly power to restrict competition, limit consumer choice and attempt to monopolize the growing field of digital media. The complaint alleges that Microsoft has abused its monopoly power, resulting in substantial lost revenue and business. ...more

Intel finally cancels Digital TV screen project

In another development in what is becoming a depressing year for Intel, the company has announced that it has finally abandoned plans to get into the digital TV screen business. The company now says that it has formally cancelled the project and disbanded the team working on it. Earlier this year, Intel had already postponed the commercial roll out of Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technologies which would have held out the promise of a new generation of flat screen televisions. ...more

Poor patching keeps Internet worms at highest threat

Kapersky Labs has published a virus report for 2002, showing top 4 viruses exploit the same flaw in IE. In a year where highly publicised viruses such as BugBear and Opasoft would have led one to suppose that most Web-savvy users were well aware of the threat from the Net, Kapersky Labs' annual report proves that a significant proportion of users are not keeping their software up to date. The top four viruses for 2002 all exploit an IFRAME security hole in Internet Explorer that can be easily fixed simply by applying the latest patch. ...more