BT's nationwide broadband TV to launch next year

BT is pioneering the TV over broadband space with a set-top box developed with Philips that will deliver all currently freely available digital terrestrial channels, movies on demand, Catchup TV - allowing viewers to watch any of the past week's television on-demand through a broadband connection. The box also boasts PVR functionality, enabling the recording of broadcasts - although paid-for on-demand content will no doubt be encrypted. It also supports HD broadcasts. ...more

Second Lifers hacked

Second life, the virtual online world, has produced a potential headache for its users' first lives. It has emerged that all 650,000 users of the service may have had their personal information compromised by an intruder using a zero day exploit though some unspecified third party software used on the Second Life Servers. The company is recommending that all of its subscribers change their passwords immediately to safeguard their data. ...more

Web malware explodes

According to IBM research, the amount of malware targeting web browsers exploded in 2006 compared to previous years. The study, carried out by IBM's Internet Security Systems X-Force research team, found that Web-targeted attacks and scripting vulnerabilities saw a massive increase. There were 7,247 vulnerabilities disclosed, and 88 per cent of these were remotely exploitable by hackers. ...more

HP and Dell to ship PCs with Sun's Java

HP's desktops and notebooks are to carry Sun's latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Agreement has been reached with Sun about pre-installing the software that allows Java apps to be executed natively. The deal is expected to come into effect after the summer. ...more

RedDSL cuts costs to broadband gaming

New ISP on the block cuts rate barely a week after launch Launched on 7 October, RedDSL has today announced a price cut to its ADSL service, from ?29.99 (inc VAT) down to ?26.99 (inc VAT). ...more