Mozilla patches Firefox security vulnerabilities

Mozilla has released patches for critical security vulnerabilities discovered in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. Firefox 1.5. ...more

iPod leads way in portable player boom

The digital audio player market is now worth $4.5 billion, according to research analysts In-Stat, and almost a third of the sales have gone Apple's way. Describing it as an 'exploding' market - with sales revenue jumping 200 per cent in just one year - In-Stat anticipates the number of hard disk- and Flash-based players to total 104 million units by 2009. ...more

UK games chart: FIFA 07 gets second wind

There's a new number in this week's ELSPA UK games chart, but it's a familiar face: EA's FIFA 07(DS, GBA, GC, Mob, PC, PS2, PSP, Xb, Xb360). The reason for its second-half resurgence? It seems supermarket discounts have boosted sales (a price of ?30 still fitting it within ELSPA's 'full price' criteria). EA's street racing game Need For Speed: Carbon (DS, GBA, GC, PS2, PSP, Wii, Xb360, Xb, PC, PS3) stays at number two, with Microsoft's Gears of War, for the Xbox 360, slipping down to number three. ...more

Blu-ray titles on p2p networks ahead of official launch

A number of high profile Blu-ray movie titles have been copied and made available on p2p networks ahead of their official release date of 22 May. According to Blu-ray.com - an unofficial fan site - the films, which include the first two parts of the Pirates of the Caribbean triptych, are being freely distributed despite assurances that the high-definition format's copy protection had been secured following similar cracks earlier this year. ...more

Apple misses analyst targets but Flash deals improve earnings

Apple's revenues grew 34 per cent over the past year, the company's latest financial results have revealed. For the three months to 1 April 2006, revenues totalled $4.36bn, yielding a profit of $410mn, a 41 per cent increase in earnings compared with the same quarter last year. ...more