Intel denies offices 'raided' in Japan

Japanese officials from its Fair Trade Commission (FTC) have visited Intel's offices in Japan. It is believed to be part of an investigation of anti-competitive behaviour in the processor market. The offices in question are in Tsukuba, near Tokyo, reports Reuters, which also quotes a government source as saying: 'They [Intel] have worked to prevent other processor makers from supplying personal computer manufacturers,' Intel has denied its offices were 'raided', however. ...more

Osama bin-Laden video footage proves infectious

An Internet worm, purporting to offer video footage of a speech by Osama bin-Laden, has been discovered infecting Net-connected computers. The Famus-F worm appears to be using the re-election of George Bush to play on the world's curiosity as to how this will be received by targets of his 'War on terror'. The worm arrives as a bilingual English and Spanish email, with the subject line 'More terrorism this year'. ...more

Tech giants club together to fight child exploitation

Tech giants have clubbed together with the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to form a Technology Coalition to combat child exploitation. AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online will work with the NCMEC to build tools for law enforcement agencies, use their expertise and technology to create solutions to detect and prevent the distribution of child porn, and share information and carry out research into the methods used by those exploiting children in this way. A conference to initially organise the coalition will be held next month and funding is kicked off with the members scrabbling around the backs of their sofas to pool just $1m to the effort. ...more

Apple fixes iTunes Windows bugs

Apple has released an updated version of iTunes for Windows that fixes a number of bugs in the original version. The update 'addresses an incompatibility with Windows 2000 and older third-party CD burning software, and improves support for non-standard mp3 files'. Apple has also made a change to the default preferences setting, so 'Keep iTunes Music folder organized' preference is now turned off. ...more

HP launches Itanium blade server

HP is offering a double first with its new Integrity BL60p blade server. The new server is not only the first HP blade to run Unix, but also the first to run on the Intel Itanium 2 processor. Running HP-UX 11i, HP's own version of Unix, the BL60p is said to promise seamless integration with those organisations whose infrastructure is Unix based. ...more