Six pirates arrested in Merseyside counterfeit haul

Trading standards officers seized counterfeit games and films worth ?800,000, including titles such as 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' and 'FIFA 2005'. Six people were arrested in the raids on Merseyside made last Wednesday. The swoop at the Aintree computer fair and involved Sefton Trading Standards, Merseyside Police and FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft). ...more

Dell swings new Axims into play

Dell has rolled out three new additions to its Axim PDA range. The Axim 50 range comprises entry- and mid-level Axim 50 models and the Axim 50v which boasts a larger 3.7in screen supporting full VGA resolution and bundled game, plus greater graphics power in the form of the 16MB Intel 2700 accelerator. ...more

Bill Gates world's number one target of spam

Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day according to Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer. `There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world,` Ballmer said at a Microsoft event in Singapore `Bill Gates because he is Bill Gates. Bill literally receives four million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam. ...more

AMD unveils an Opteron fit for a supercomputer

As expected AMD has filled out its Opteron processor line with a new addition. Last week, AMD shuffled its processor pricing - AMD cuts prices for mobile computing - and the Opteron range was affected. It was being prepared for a new arrival in the 200 series: the Model 246, which is priced at $794, based on 1,000-unit quantities. ...more

Browsers hit by dialog box spoofing security flaw

Several Web browsers are afflicted with a dialog box security vulnerability which can be exploited by malicious web sites to spoof dialog boxes. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera are affected by the flaw, where inactive windows can launch dialog boxes so they appear to be displayed by a website in another window or tab. This can be exploited by a malicious site to show a dialog box, which seems to originate from a trusted site. ...more