Vodafone and TomTom team on cellular nav system

Mobile phone signals sent from traffic jams will enable a real-time travel information service, British telecoms group Vodafone and Dutch navigation systems company TomTom said on Friday. The service will be available in the Netherlands in the second half of 2007, using the Dutch Vodafone network. 'I would just be happy to put a smile on customers' faces by helping them get out of the traffic jams they find themselves in on a regular basis,' Guy Laurence, the chief executive of Vodafone Netherlands said in a statement. ...more

SCO website defaced in Thanksgiving attack

Controversial Unix company SCO suffered a series of outages and an embarrassing defacement of its website over the weekend. Over the extended Thanksgiving weekend, the company's www.sco. ...more

Google promotes Google Groups

Google has made its Groups online tool official with a range of new features. One of the main additions is a much closer alignment with Gmail. Not only can you browse messages from groups to which you are signed up in the Gmail web client, but messages within Google Groups itself are organised in the same way, gathering all messages from a conversation into a single thread. ...more

MyDoom virus regroups in new form for attack on Microsoft and RIAA

MyDoom-F infections are gathering pace and recruiting zombie PCs in ever larger numbers to launch DDOS attacks against Microsoft and the websites of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). 'This worm is being sighted in larger numbers, suggesting that not all computers have been properly protected with the latest anti-virus updates,' said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. 'Protection is essential if computer users are to play their part as responsible net citizens - or else computers could become part of the zombie army which will launch the attack on the websites of Microsoft or the RIAA. ...more

IBM readies dual core G5 for faster speeds

IBM is reported to be preparing a dual core version of the PowerPC 970 processor, more commonly known as the G5. eWeek reports that the 970MP will comprise two processing units per chip, each with its own Level 1 cache and storage subsystems including a Level 2 cache. The total amount of cache will be four times greater than is currently available in the dual processor Power Macs. ...more