And also today (16-August-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Men flirt, women work According to a new survey, carried out by the marketing company edesigns.co. ...more

Symantec blocks 'malicious' AOL

Security firm Symantec was rushing to reassure irate AOL users at the end of last week after the Intrusion Detection signature that was loaded with the latest update prevented people from logging into the ISP. The problem arose with the regular 15 March LiveUpdate and affected both Norton AntiVirus itself or, as a part of Norton SystemWorks, Norton Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall. As a result, traffic coming from AOL was deemed to be malicious and prevented users from connecting to the service. ...more

Sony goes organic with new TVs

Sony aims to be first in a new market of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) televisions offering ultra-thin displays Several companies are investing in OLED technology because it can produce bright, colorful images and does not require a backlight as do liquid crystal displays (LCDs), allowing for a thinner panel. OLED panels are also said to be energy-efficient and good at reproducing fast-moving images. At a display forum in Tokyo, customers, suppliers and even rival TV makers turned their backs on 50-inch and bigger TVs to throng before Sony's tiny 11-inch OLED TVs. ...more

Band outwit Napster Users

It doesn't take much to catch out the freeloaders of this world and Canadian group Barenaked Ladies have proved that this is the same on the Internet. In an action that could be described as a 'poke-in-the-eye', the band has flooded Napster, the popular music-swapping community, with copies of their new single. The catch is that the song isn't the new single, but a rather clever advertisement. ...more

Firefox market share tops 20 per cent in Germany

Germany leads Europe for Firefox adoption, according to new figures from French market research company, Xiti Monitor. More than one-in-five German surfers (21.4 per cent) use the open source browser, almost 10 per cent higher than the next largest adopter France (12. ...more