Pocket PC ads under FTC scrutiny

Microsoft is again on the wrong side of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is looking into its recent advertising campaign for the Pocket PC platform. The print campaign that began in April last year outlined a number of Pocket PC functions, including accessing the Net. The adverts asked "Can your Palm Do That?", but the correct answer was "No, and neither can Pocket PC". ...more

TiVo applies for patent on personalised TV recorders

US company TiVo has applied for a patent on personalised TV recorders that will identify which person in the household is watching and modify its settings accordingly. The technology will pick out the closest RF tag embedded in clothing or jewellery and from the information received will tailor content such as currently broadcasting and recorded television programmes and music playlists. The patent application refers to both digital video recorders and MP3 players. ...more

Ericsson's hand forced to reveal big loss

And it foresees weak demand in the mobile network market for the coming year. The company yesterday reported a pre-tax loss for the third quarter of almost $550m, and was pessimistic for future conditions in 2002. The release of its results was brought forward from today after the company suspected the figures has been leaked to the media. ...more

Brit on trial for website scams

A 23-year-old man stood trial yesterday, alleged to have netted ?1.6m from bogus website registration scams, reports the Times. The court heard that for five years, Peter Francis-Macrae operated spam email and junk mail-based deceptions to either fool victims into believing he was registering the upcoming . ...more

Overflow vuln found in iTunes and QuickTime

Apple has announced a vulnerability affecting iTunes and QuickTime that could lead to code being run on the system. The integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affects both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of QuickTime Player 7.0. ...more