Mistral and the Broadband predicament

At Internet World 2001, broadband was as ever a hot topic. Business ISP Mistral revealed the resuts of its recently commissioned MORI survey on business attitudes towards broadband, showing a staggering 80 per cent fail to see any benefit of the technology. The survey polled 200 Managing and Financial Directors (as opposed to heads of IT departments) of SMEs with annual turnovers of between ?1m and ?100m. ...more

Star Wars: Galaxies - beta bytes

Hands up if you want to beta test Star Wars: Galaxies... ...more

Secure CompactFlash agreed

The CompactFlash Association has approved the Secure CompactFlash proposal developed by the Secure CF Work Group at its general meeting in Hawaii. The Secure CompactFlash specification allows for 16 or more content protection methods to be used, with 4Cs Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) being the first content protection system deemed suitable for Secure CF cards. The new secure memory cards will be backwardly compatible with existing media and devices and Secure CF can be implemented on any type of CF card. ...more

Security flaw discovered in QuickTime installation

Security firm eEye has discovered a flaw in the default installation of QuickTime. The company notified Apple 14 days ago and its practice is not to reveal details of the flaw until it has been fixed, confining itself to the following description: 'A vulnerability in default installations of the affected software that allows malicious code to be executed with little user interaction.' Further information is available in eEye Upcoming Advisory EEYEB-20040218. ...more

Tesco brags about PS2 stocks

The company that brought us a series of very irritating commercials starring Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks, puffs up its chest and crows about a shipment of PlayStation 2s. If you haven't got your name down for one of these all-singing, all-dancing consoles and you are intent on getting hold of one for the kids this Christmas, then you might want to break out the sleeping bag and a thermos flask of hot, sweet tea because it is going to be a long, cold night. The supermarket, which seems to be trying desperately to break into the consumer electronics market, has announced that it has managed to import 2,500 of the units into the country. ...more