Board of Letsbuyit.com resigns

The board of co-operative buying site Letsbuyit.com resigned Wednesday, leading to fears that the innovative shopping site will be forced to close. The Dutch site, which operates in 14 European countries, is facing insolvency proceedings and is currently being run by court-appointed administrators Paul R. ...more

Microsoft releases beta 3 of IE7

Microsoft has posted Beta 3 of Internet Explorer on its website. The new version which supersedes the last Beta posted back in April is being touted as stable enough for anyone to download and play with. Beta brings the standalone version into line with that shipped with the Vista build, No. ...more

Yahoo! unveils new weapon against spammers and phishers

Yahoo! has unveiled its DomainKey email authentication system and has submitted it to the Internet Engineering Task Force to be accepted as a standard. The system, which was announced in December of last year is intended to tackle the twin problems of spoofing and phishing. As spammers have become subject to laws, the anger of recipients, and more sophisticated anti-spam tools they have increasingly sought to hide their original source by 'spoofing' or forging the often innocent email addresses in the 'From' line. ...more

QuickTime 5 released

Apple has released QuickTime 5, the latest version of its movie, sound and VR technology. QuickTime 5 adds a number of new features: 360? VR rendering; the ability to deliver custom interfaces - or 'skins' - with media; MPEG-1 capability, enhanced DV codec for faster video rendering; support for Flash 4; and a new music synthesiser. Details and download - for both Windows and Mac OS - can be found at the QuickTime 5 Web page. ...more

The year in search 2005 [part 1]

2005 was always going to be a busy year for the search engine business, but we had no idea quite how busy. Barely a week passed without some new announcement or initiative from one of the big search engines. This year the market shaped up to be a fight between the big three - Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. ...more