Fatal flaws in Operation Ore - the full story

In 2005, PC Pro revealed how computer evidence used against 7,272 people in the UK accused of being paedophiles had been founded on falsehoods. The misleading evidence, which claimed that every user of a Texas porn portal had to click on a banner advertising child porn to access illegal websites, was withdrawn last summer. 'It's specifically not alleged that [the accused] would have. ...more

HP backs Open Source with research technology

HP has thrown its weight behind the Open Source movement, making an important part of its R&D available to the world of collaborative development. Emerging from its Cooltown research project, Coolbase will support the building of e-services, whether for embedded or personal systems, as part of HP's vision for pervasive computing. "Cooltown" is a place where, in HP's words, "e-services meet the physical world, where humans are mobile, devices and services are federated and context-aware, and everything has a web presence". ...more

Microsoft launches beefier Vista beta

The latest version of Windows Vista, the next generation operation system from Redmond, has been released. Described as 'feature complete', the main elements of note in this release are improved deployment functionality and desktop management features. There's also the Windows Sidebar and Gadgets (customizable mini-applications designed to provide information at a glance, much like the Widgets in OS X) and the Welcome Center (a new start-up feature to simplify setup tasks, such as adding user accounts, transferring files and settings). ...more

Thunderbird updated and patched

Mozilla has released an update for its Thunderbird email client. Thunderbird 1.0. ...more

Fred Anderson claims Jobs misled him over stock options

Apple's former chief financial officer Fred Anderson has claimed that Steve Jobs was aware that the company had backdated stock options and said that the Apple CEO had given his approval. Anderson's lawyer, Jerome Roth, said that his client had been told by Jobs that the options dates had been approved by the company's board. 'He was told by Mr. ...more