Companies quit anti-spyware consortium

Two leading anti-spyware companies have quit the Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors (COAST) putting the future of the industry body in doubt. The companies - Webroot and Aluria - are said to be unhappy with the direction of the consortium and its policy of opening the door to companies which themselves allegedly develop adware and spyware. The final straw for the pair is said to be the recent admittance last month of 180solutions - a search marketing company which develops search assistant software that points users to advertisers' websites. ...more

Thus cuts its business broadband prices

Thus plc, which operates the Demon services, announced today that it has cut the cost of its business services to SMEs. It is passing reductions in BT's monthly wholesale ADSL charges on to its Demon branded ISP business customers. Demon Express Plus will be reduced from a monthly fee of ?75 to ?45 and Demon Express Pro from ?150 to ?79. ...more

New Palm, more memory

If you've been holding back buying yourself a new organiser, then the latest Palm product might just catch your interest. The new Palm M105 is based upon the budget M100 design but this time the company has increased memory fourfold to 8Mb, which is more than enough to store even the most popular person's contact book. The M105 also comes with the Palm Mobile Internet Kit that allows users to access the Internet and check their mail using a compatible mobile phone. ...more

Osama bin-Laden video footage proves infectious

An Internet worm, purporting to offer video footage of a speech by Osama bin-Laden, has been discovered infecting Net-connected computers. The Famus-F worm appears to be using the re-election of George Bush to play on the world's curiosity as to how this will be received by targets of his 'War on terror'. The worm arrives as a bilingual English and Spanish email, with the subject line 'More terrorism this year'. ...more

Adobe reports record revenues

Adobe has reported record revenues of $423.3mn for the last financial quarter, with year-on-year growth of 43 per cent. The revenues exceeded expectations and as a result quarterly profit was also a record. ...more