Free Software makes play for online role playing games

MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online role-playing games, are big business. With businesses such as Reuters opening 'offices' in Second Life, and digital property changing hands for tens of thousands of dollars, there's money in them there virtual hills. World of Warcraft, Second Life, Lineage - MORPG, or massively multiplayer online role-playing games, are big business. ...more

SIM card to credit card

Edinburgh-based software company Aspects Software has secured ?12m in funding to develop secure SIM cards allowing mobile users to pay for things using their handsets. The SecureSIM card is a product of mobEcom, a subsidiary of Aspects Software, and boasts a security level meeting the European standard ITSEC E6(H), which brings it in line with other credit, debit and charge products such as MasterCard and American Express. Users will not only be able to buy products at the touch of a button, but also pay their own phone bills and put credit on the handset they are using. ...more

A third of US homes without Net access - report

A little under one third of US households do not have Internet access and have no plans to get it, with most of the holdouts having little use for it, according to a survey released on Friday. Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 per cent of U.S. ...more

Intel hears the 64bit call

According to a report on Reuters, an Intel chief has been making encouraging noises about desktop support for 64-bit processing. Paul Ottelini, Intel's president and COO, is quoted as saying 'You can be fairly confident that when there is software from an application and operating system standpoint that we'll be there.' This was in reply to a Wall Street questioning over the company's approach to 64-bit computing. ...more

Rapid MyDoom, Bagle and Netsky variants do battle to control your computer

New variants of MyDoom, Bagle and Netsky arrive in quick succession as the battle to control infected computers heats up. Sophos has issued alerts this morning for MyDoom-G and H, Bagle-J and K and Netsky F. The worms are fighting for the control of infected computers which the virus writers can use for their nefarious activities. ...more