Price check: TFT monitors

In September, when last we looked, a 15in TFT monitor would set you back ?187. Today, the cheapest we saw was at Dixons in the form of a Proview CY-465 with built-in speakers for ?169.99. ...more

F-Secure patches against critical flaw

Finnish security vendor F-Secure has released a patch to counter a critical flaw in its software for Windows and Linux. The company says that systems left unpatched are open to exploitation by the use of specially tweaked archive files (Zip and Rar formats) which can be used to create a buffer overflow and allow an attacker to run code remotely on the affected system. In addition, the files designed to exploit the flaw can be modified so that they are not scanned by security software potentially duping users into believing they are not at risk. ...more

Microsoft emails reveal Tiger envy

A series of emails between Microsoft developers in June 2004 has revealed how impressed they were by the new Tiger operating system that Apple had just previewed. The emails focus primarily on Tiger's Spotlight search feature, and how far it was in advance of similar functionality in Microsoft's Vista/Longhorn OS. 'Tonight I got on corpnet, hooked up Mail. ...more

Adjust your keyboard: multi-lingual domain names on the horizon

From 10 November multi-lingual Internet domain names will become a possibility. Tucows, Register.com and 22 other companies have been authorised, under the auspices of VeriSign Global Registry Services, to begin taking registrations of addresses containing foreign characters. ...more

European publishers back suing Google

European publishers have backed moves by a French news agency to sue Google for copyright infringement. Agence France Presses is suing Google for at least $17.5m because the search engine allows AFP copyright pictures headlines and stories to appear on its Google News service. ...more