LA Times pulls wikitorial experiment

It sounded like a great idea. Why not let the readers write the newspaper? However, when the Los Angeles Times punted out the idea of 'wikitorial', the results were not quite what it hoped for. After just a week, the newspaper has withdrawn the wikitorial section from its website after being bombarded with what it terms 'inappropriate content'. ...more

Kaspersky launches Linux gateway antivirus

Kaspersky has updated its virus filtering email system for Linux and Unix. The Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway 5.5 checks incoming email for malicious code - detecting infected, suspicious or damaged messages - and also provides content filtering to help combat spam. ...more

Universal Music downloads $52mn from online sales

Universal Music has revealed that it made $52mn from downloads sales in the first quarter of 2005. The world's biggest record label, with 25 per cent of the global market, saw downloads contribute four per cent of its total revenue. Jean-Bernard L?vy, the new CEO of Universal's owner, Vivendi, anticipates this rising to 20 per cent 'in a few years'. ...more

Orange ripe for summer 3G launch with data card

Orange will launch its 3G network on 19 July, covering 66 per cent of the UK population. However, its first phones, from SonyEricsson and LG, will not be available until later this year. In the meantime PC laptop owners will be able to plug-in to the network, using Orange's 3G Mobile Office Card. ...more

Apple servers upgraded to dual 800s

Apple's Mac OS X Server hardware configurations have been upgraded, with two dual-800MHz models added to the existing 733 option. The two new servers, effectively modified Power Mac G4s, have two 800MHz processors, each with 256K of level 2 cache and 2MB of level 3 cache, and 256MB RAM. Differentiating the two are a 80GB Ultra ATA hard drive in one - the 'Faster' model and two 36GB Ultra160 SCSI drives in the other, the 'Fastest'. ...more