$10,000 bug bounty set on Microsoft flaws

iDefense Labs, a subsidiary of VeriSign, is offering a quarterly hacking challenge. The company says it will pay $10,000 for each vulnerability submission that result in the publication of a Microsoft Security Bulletin with a severity rating of critical. One day every month, popularly known as 'patch Tuesday', Microsoft issues a set of security bulletins detailing the vulnerabilities that it has fixed in the previous month and offers a patch for them. ...more

Correction: PC Pro review of Dell Latitude D410

Contrary to our Labs review in the October 2005 issue (#132), the Dell Latitude D410's price of ?1,199 (?1,409 including VAT) does not include delivery. Our apologies for this mistake. The D410's value for money rating drops from five to four, but its overall rating remains at five and it also retains its Labs Winner award. ...more

Mobile companies to set standards for Super 3G

Twenty six of the world's leading companies in the mobile phone business are reported to have come together to set the standard for what is already being called 'Super 3G'. The companies, including Japan's DoCoMo, Vodafone and Siemens, plan to develop a system that will be up to ten times faster than today's 3G services. According to the Japanese business news service Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the plan is to finalise the standard by 2007 with the first commercial services arriving in 2009. ...more

Palm becomes palmOne

Palm, the world's leading PDA maker, is to take a new name. It will be renaming itself palmOne when it finally spins off its Palm OS operating system business as PalmSource later this year. palmOne will comprise the company's three hardware lines - Zire, Tungsten and, when the acquisition of Handspring is completed, Treo - and its software business. ...more

TUC turns to the Web to battle 'unpaid overtime culture'

The TUC has launched a website designed to tackle the UK's unpaid overtime culture. It says that over five million people in the UK are contributing ?23bn in free time to their employers each year. www. ...more