New BT service allows copyright owners to set digital music rights in minutes

Musicians and copyright owners are to be given unprecedented control of their digital music. BT and media technology company Blueprint have combined to provide a new way in which owners can work directly with online music services. Under the Open Royalty Gateway component of the deal, copyright owners can use Windows Media Player to set the rules by which their music is offered to the retail channel. ...more

Sainsburys to sell Skype vouchers

Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has become the first European grocery chain to offer Skype eVouchers through a network of 500 stores throughout the UK. The Skype eVouchers can be bought and used the same way that pre-pay 'top-up' vouchers work with mobile phones. Sainsburys' customers can buy the vouchers at the checkout desk as with a mobile top-up card. ...more

Hackers turn to search engine sponsored links

According to security researchers, cyber criminals are using Google Adwords to infect unsuspecting users. According to security software developer Exploit Prevention Labs's team of researchers, malware is being distributed under the guise of adverts for legitimate, trusted organisations. Instead of connecting to these legitimate sites, users are redirected to malicious sites that attempt to install exploits and other malware. ...more

Security researchers probe Proactive Worm Containment

A way of tagging worms and containing them before they damage computer systems has been devised by researchers. The research was carried out by Peng Liu, associate professor of information services and technology and director of the Cyber Security Lab at Penn State University. The technology, dubbed Proactive Worm Containment (PWC), doesn't rely on signature databases but looks at a packet's rate or frequency of connections and the diversity of connections to other networks - which, the researcher said, allowed PWC to react far more quickly than other technologies. ...more

Apple adds stability to Xsan network storage software

Apple has released updates for its Xsan network storage software. Both the Xsan 1.1 for OS X 10. ...more