Mozilla extends Firefox 1.5 support

Mozilla has extended support for Firefox 1.5 until mid-May. It had previously said that it would issue no further updates after today. ...more

OS X trojan can wipe Home directory, not a virus says Apple

An OS X trojan horse masquerading as a Microsoft Office 2004 installer can wipe your Home folder, security company Intego has announced. The AS.MW2004. ...more

Bush administration gets tough on downloaders

The US Justice Department has proposed new legislation that could put music or movie shares in gaol. The law would criminalise the unauthorised copying of copyrighted material and would also enable prosecutions of people who try, but fail, to make copies of intellectual property including music, movies and software. It would also allow the seizure of assets acquired with the profits from sales of copied content. ...more

Intel: WLAN, WiMAX can co-exist

WiMAX (world interoperability for microwave access), also known as IEEE 802.16, a wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) technology, will complement WLAN in the future, rather than squeeze it out of the market, according to Lin Long-song, president and general manager of the Intel Innovation Center in Taiwan, at a press conference on 20 August. The IEEE 802. ...more

Concern about Intel Springdale licensing rising among chipset designers

The technology licensing issue in the chipset industry is surfacing again with Intel's introduction of its new Hyper-Threading Technology and the 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) standard for the upcoming Springdale platform. It is believed that Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) will be most hard-hit among the three chipset designers if all of them fail to obtain the license. ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories), which earlier announced its re-concentration on the PC chipset business in 2003, is expected to be significantly affected as well. ...more