Microsoft's Office Live moniker under threat

Following the news that it was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in patent infringement damages to Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft has been hit with another legal whammy, this time regarding its Office Live offerings. Online media company Office Live has announced that it is suing Microsoft for federal trademark infringement of its moniker. ...more

A Trojan full of Trojans

Sophos has alerted its users to a new Trojan virus that appears as an 'administrative email'. Troj/Peido-B arrives as an administrative email with an error.hta attachment and contains the text 'THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE'. ...more

Thunderbird 0.4 RC1 released

The Mozilla Organisation has made the first release candidate of its open source email client available to download. Thunderbird 0.4 incorporates several new or improved features including: new icons for the mailing list, subscribe, search addresses and offline dialogues; results in the search Addresses dialog now only show a subset of the available columns by default instead of showing all the address book columns; an IMAP fix to prevent the software hanging when selecting the Inbox while new mail is being downloaded; find in message now always forces focus on the message pane so you no longer have to do it yourself; and the correct saving of attachments with non-ASCII file names. ...more

Zen Internet cuts prices

Zen Internet is cutting the price of its broadband offerings with free activation across all its services. The cut follow's BT's recent reduction of the ADSL wholesale price, despite predictions that this would not be passed on to end users. The new prices are as follows: ZenADSL Home (512Kbps) ?23. ...more

Intel lines up partners for Viiv digital content

Intel has fleshed out some of the services that can be expected for its Viiv platform, for home-based access to multimedia entertainment. Companies such as BSkyB, TiVo, Napster and Tiscali are among those that have signed up to Intel's technology, which will work with Microsoft's Media Center, but also add extra connectivity options. The hardware that the chip-giant provides - under the Viiv platform logo - will effectively be the digital technology that controls access to the digital content. ...more