WinAmp vulnerability highlighted for handling of playlists

Another hole in the once popular WinAmp has been discovered. The latest breach, following separate discoveries in August and April, remains unpatched and could lead to an attacker accessing the system remotely and running code. Brett Moore, of Security-Assessment. ...more

Intel bullish on third quarter revenues

Chip giant Intel has announced that it expects revenues for the third quarter of this year to be in the range of $7.6bn to $7.8bn. ...more

Panrix performs name-change reappearing act

Panrix Electronics is no longer in administration, nor is it Panrix Electronics any longer, but Panrix Technology. Speaking with owner Gulberg Panesar today, he told us the company "was out of administration.. ...more

AOL takes aim at IM abuse

AOL has joined an initiative aimed at preventing abuse of instant messaging technologies. The developer of AIM has signed up to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), a body looking into ways of preventing messaging abuse problems, including spam, viruses, forgery, fraud and other malicious attacks. Members include ISPs, telecoms carriers and other software developers, though not AOL's main IM rivals, Microsoft and Yahoo!. ...more

RealNetworks plays new Rhapsody with SanDisk

RealNetworks is playing a new Rhapsody with the help of SanDisk. The digital media company is updating its US music service, one of the rivals to iTunes, and also unveiling a tie-in with a Rhapsody DNA-based MP3 players from SanDisk, the Sansa e200R Rhapsody player. The partnership between the two companies was first announced back in September with the pre-loading of Rhapsody music, in the US, onto certain SanDisk players. ...more