Latest broadband dates announced

BT Wholesale has announced another batch of broadband ready-for-service dates, with 30 exchanges scheduled to be ADSL-enabled. ...more

JavaScript flaw returns to threaten Internet Explorer

Microsoft is warning customers that it knows of malicious software being used to exploit a security hole in Internet Explorer, which is as yet unpatched. Stephen Toulouse from Microsoft's Security Response Center posted on the company blog that 'I wanted to go ahead and let you know some breaking information. We've been made aware that there has been some malicious software exploiting the recently publicly disclosed Internet Explorer vulnerability . ...more

Microsoft patches Internet Explorer

Microsoft has released Security Bulletin MS03-020, concerning security issues with its Internet Explorer. With a 'Severity Rating of 'critical', the update relates to IE 5.1, 5. ...more

Music downloads to count towards record industry gongs

Downloads will now count towards the commemorative discs awarded to artists to recognise high sales, the UK record industry's main body announced today. Discs are presented for both single and album sales as follows: singles - silver 200,000, gold 400,000, platinum 600,000; albums - silver 60,000, gold 100,000, platinum 300,00. The BPI said that music DVDs will also be included: titles shipping 25,000 copies or more will be eligible for a gold award, with a platinum award for 50,000 sales. ...more

HP board members sanctioned 'tracer email'

Released documents reveal how executives of Hewlett Packard agreed to a plan to unmask a board level mole by leaking information to a journalist. The plan, apparently suggested by a former journalist, was to gain the trust of CNet writer Dawn Kawamoto in the hope that she would lead them to the source of confidential company information. Some of the information presented by the Committee sounds more like a bad script from Mission Impossible rather than the business of a major corporation. ...more