Skype adds voicemail service to its IP telephony

Net telephony giant Skype has updated its eponymous application to include voicemail and other new features. For about ?10 a year, Skype users can leave voicemails up to 10 minutes long for any other Skype user, even if they are not subscribed to the voicemail service. Voicemail has been in beta along with Skype's SkypeIn - giving Skype users a standard phone number that can be called from landlines or mobiles - since April. ...more

A new release at nVIDIA's Personal Cinema

nVIDIA's latest home entertainment card boasts breakout box to hook up the living room At CES, nVIDIA has announced its latest Personal Cinema graphics solution, complete with external breakout box with all the ports you'd need to receive TV signals from set-top boxes, DVD players and so on, in addition to a bevvy of ports to output content to a TV or video player. Based around a GeForce4 MX 440 graphics card, the Personal Cinema also gives users PVR (personal video recorder) capabilities with the ability to record direct to DVD or CD without saving to a hard drive first. There's a software suite that includes the NVDVD media player, which supports all standard Windows-based audio and video formats, and software from Ulead for video editing and DVD burning. ...more

Kaspersky Labs snaps up Reliable Anti Virus team

Anti virus specialists Kaspersky Labs has hired the Unix/Linux specialists from Reliable Anti Virus (RAV), the company bought by Microsoft back in June. Microsoft bought RAV in order to integrate its technology into future versions of Windows. However, the RAV product line included software for a number of other operating systems including Linux and Unix which Microsoft didn't want. ...more

Google tops brand beauty poll

Is the Google brand stronger than the Apple brand? According to the latest readers' poll by brandchannel.com, indeed it is. With Google re-taking the crown and with Apple in the runner-up spot, Skype completes the top three brands. ...more

FBI arrest Zombie pusher

The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old man from Los Angeles for profiting from adverts pushed to compromised computers on a zombie network. Jeanson James Ancheta attacked computers to gain remote access in order to create a zombie network. He was then paid for installing adware on the network and sending spam through it. ...more