And also today (11-Jan-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Amid the flurry of announcements from the Macworld expo in San Francisco, the release of the Mac OS 9.1 upgrade slipped by, relatively unobserved. ...more

Kaspersky moves into antivirus for mobiles

Kaspersky has launched an OEM antivirus platform for mobile phones. Although we are currently at the bottom of the curve for mobile malware, numbers are growing. Finnish company F-Secure said that mobile viruses recently topped 100. ...more

Unsigned act makes history with chart entry

The UK band Koopa has made music chart history by being the first unsigned act to get a hit in the top 40, courtesy of digital downloads. The download-only single Blag Steal & Borrow registered on this Sunday's chart at number 31, netting the Colchester group even more online attention. With the recent change in rules governing the UK charts allowing download-only songs to be included, it had been expected that old favourites - from the likes of Snow Patrol and Gnarls Barkley would re-register in the charts, off the back of general music downloading. ...more

IBM and Adobe lock up PDFs

Acrobat 6.0 keys into IBM security software IBM and Adobe have announced new security features that take advantage of Adobe's Acrobat 6.0 and IBM's encryption utilities. ...more

Europe warned not to follow US into patent court chaos

The US Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has sent a letter to MEPs warning against adopting a system of patent courts similar or worse than its beleaguered US counterpart. Such a court would operate outside of the jurisdiction of the European Commission and would be overseen by the European Patent Office and national patent offices. Even in the US, rulings made in the patent courts of the Federal Circuit can be escalated to the Supreme Court or Congress for appeal. ...more