Virgin enters iPod territory in US

Virgin has joined the lengthening list of companies trying to grab some of iPod's share of the digital music player market. Its Virgin Electronics arm has unveiled the literally-named 'player 5GB' in the US to complement the Virgin Digital online store that opened last month. The hard-drive based player sells for $249. ...more

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

Apple releases iPod shuffle reset utility

Apple has released a reset utility that addresses four potential problems with first-generation 512MB and 1GB iPod shuffles. The software fixes the following: with the iPod shuffle switched on, pressing the Play button will cause amber and green LEDs to flash for a few seconds, and the unit will not play any music, nor can you sync music to it from iTunes; on a Windows PC, iPod shuffle will appear in My Computer as a 'Removable Disk', but the iPod shuffle volume will not mount correctly; on a Mac, the unit will only be recognised in Apple System Profiler under Hardware>USB and will not appear or mount in the Finder; when attempting to restore, the unit may not be recognised at all and if it is (possibly after several minutes), the restore may fail with an error dialog 'Firmware update failure. Disk write error' or another error - it may take three restore attempts before the error appears. ...more

VideoSeven launches armada of LCD monitors and projectors

VideoSeven has launched 16 new LCD displays, projectors and TVs. The new product launch sees the German brand split its LCD range into 'Value', 'Professional' and 'Entertainment'. Starting with LCD displays, the three lines span 15-, 17 and 19-inch displays. ...more

Novell boxes iPod-friendly SUSE 9.3

Novell has finally boxed up SUSE 9.3 ready for use. It describes the latest version as the 'richest' ever release. ...more