Online car-dealing in a jam

Online car-dealer Jamjar.com has asked European Commissioners to lobby to abandon legislation that allows car manufacturers to make their own rules regarding the selling and repairing vehicles. Currently, the Car Block Exemption lets manufacturers demand that dealers sell only their products, restrict certain cars to be sold in a defined area. ...more

New worms top January virus charts

The Avril and Yaha worms oust Klez and Bugbear to steal the prevalence crown for January. The Avril Lavigne email worm was first discovered early in the month, but quickly tunnelled up the charts to the top two spots, with variants A and B accounting for 29.2 per cent of reported incidents. ...more

Security expert warns of repeat DNS server attacks

The same kind of denial of service attacks that hit the Internet's root servers in February could be played out on an organisation's infrastructure with devastating effects, warns a security expert. In February, hackers took aim at the root servers of the Internet in a distributed denial of service attack that lasted hours. The offensive was thought to be one of the biggest seen in four years. ...more

Belkin quadruples wireless throughput

Belkin has introduced a new range of wireless networking products which it claims are up to four times faster than standard 802.11g equipment. The Pre-N router and client adapters use Airgo Networks' MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) smart antennae technology to increase both the speed and range of wireless signals, whilst remaining compatible with the 802. ...more

24-02-2001 Essential news of the week

Brought neatly together and presented on a plate, here is a roundup of some of the week's main news stories from the world of IT. Oftel makes BT pay for local loop fiasco iMacs harness flower power Comment: Internet experts face anti-terrorist threat Eidos WAPS it out Famous Scottish comedian bites at dog Napster's $1bn sweetener Egg ditches current account plans Letsbuyit.com vows repair and renewal Microsoft moves into mobile phones Blair launches government portal Apple recalls G4 PowerBooks Don't forget, we welcome your comments. ...more