Brace yourself for more Blue Men

The "Bunny People" may have been ludicrous, but the "Blue Men" are just plain daft. We are talking Intel advertising, and a new $300m Pentium 4 campaign is about to be launched. Yes, the worldwide campaign to trumpet the new processor, which kicks off this coming Monday, features more visual antics from the Blue Man theatre troupe. ...more

Mozilla 1.7 moves out of beta

The Mozilla Organisation has announced the Release Candidate 1 version of its eponymous, standards-based combined Web browser and email and chat client. Mozila 1.7 is described as the next stable version, and will form the basis for new versions of the Firefox and Camino browsers and Thunderbird email client. ...more

AMD bumps up speeds for latest dual-core Opterons

The Opteron server processor is the workhorse that is powering AMD's battle for market share with Intel, and three new dual-core models have been announced. A 64-bit, x86-based processor, the dual-core versions contain two cores within a single die, rather than two separate processors working together. According to AMD, they offer significant performance gains while operating in the same power and thermal infrastructure as the single-core equivalents. ...more

Punters gagging for wireless versions of consumer electronics

Consumers are gagging for wireless versions of DVD players, plasma screens and other consumer electronic products, and would be prepared to pay extra for this feature, according to Netgear. The company, which unsurprisingly makes wireless products, polled 1,000 punters coming out of Habitat and found 51 per cent would pay at least 10 per cent more to be rid of the spaghetti of cables between various electronic boxes. 20 per cent felt that the more complex a product, the more likely things would go wrong. ...more

Flaw found in OS X disk image handler

A vulnerability in disk image handling could compromise the security of a Mac OS X system, Secunia reports. The security firm says that the vulnerability is caused by to an error in com.apple. ...more