Microsoft to fix .wmf Windows flaw

Microsoft says it has come up with a fix for the vulnerability exposed in the graphics rendering engine between Christmas and the New Year. As we reported yesterday a new strain of virus has appeared which means that a specially designed Windows Metafile (wmf) could be used to gain access to a machine and take control. The situation is worsened by the fact that source code for the exploit has been published on the Internet and that the virus changes itself when it replicates, making it harder for it to be detected by traditional signature-based security software. ...more

Laptop makers gear up for double-speed PC cards

Laptop makers are gearing up for the launch of the next-generation PC card this month. Known as ExpressCard, the new card is still managed by the PCMCIA body but is half the size of the current PC Cards and uses less power. They are 75mm long and either 34mm or 54mm in width, but with PCIExpress and USB 2. ...more

W3C moves towards new Cascading Style Sheets standard

W3C has published a working draft of the specification for the next revision of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard for website layout and design. CSS 2.1 adds support for media-specific style sheets so that authors can tailor the presentation of their documents for visual Web browsers, aural devices, printers, braille devices, handheld devices and so on. ...more

Price Check: DVD burners

We were quite impressed when we last looked at DVD burner prices back in September that they had broken through the ?100 barrier. Six months later.. ...more

News Corp 'displeased' by Google-YouTube deal - WSJ

It seems that News Corp is not best pleased with the way Google snapped up YouTube. According to the Wall Street Journal the company has complained that the search engine did not give the Murdoch organisation an 'opportunity to participate in the sale process' before going ahead. News Corp was already concerned that MySpace was bleeding too much traffic to YouTube and not enough was going to MySpace Video. ...more