European Court strikes down passenger information deal

Airlines may find themselves caught in a data sharing dispute that has blown up between the US and EU authorities. The European Court of Justice has ruled that an agreement between the EU and the US to hand over personal data of airline passengers en route to the US is illegal. The deal is part of the global war on terrorism and was demanded by the United States as part of a general tightening of security following the aircraft attacks in the US on September 11th 2001. ...more

And also today (08-Feb-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Revenues in recommendations Amazon.com plans to let publishers nominate books for recommendation on its site, rather than its own editors being solely responsible for the process. ...more

Updated: Backdoor trojans make their presence felt

A virus never sleeps. And it seems they don't stop mutating and breeding, too, as there are two new threats to computer users: BDSinit-A and Webber-C. Strictly speaking, they are back-door trojans rather than 'viruses', but they both allow a remote attacker to control your system. ...more

NEC transcends traditional PC processors

NEC has exhibited a laptop PC containing a 600MHz Crusoe processor, Transmeta's much-hyped mobile chip. The slimline (1in) LaVie MX mini notebook has a claimed battery life of 11 hours, as well as features including a 10.4in screen, 20Gb hard disk and 128Mb RAM. ...more

Evo, the second wave

Compaq has launched a second wave of Evo products, its computing line aimed at the business end of the market. As well as Evo Desktop PCs (the D300 and D500), there are new notebooks in the Evo range (the N200 and N600c). All the models come bundled with network management tools, such as Altiris eXpress for configuring software releases. ...more