Nine in ten surfers keep up-to-date virus protection

In our recent poll, 92 per cent of site users had installed regularly updated antivirus software. With reports from Sophos claiming that the Klez worm has been in the top ten most infectious worms for more than a year, we can safely say that our readers are doing their bit to make the Internet a safer place by shutting out nasty viruses with up-to-date protection. Many of our readers say installing antivirus software is the result of bitter experience. ...more

Intel takes $600 million hit on Wireless Group

Chip giant is to write down $600 million from its Wireless Communications and Computing Group from its fourth quarter results. The 'goodwill impairment charge', as it is called, is because the company estimates that long term growth is not expected to be as bullish as previously estimated. The write down is despite the fact that Intel has put a huge amount of marketing effort into boosting WiFi this year following the launch of the Centrino technologies in March. ...more

Apple updates firmware for Boot Camp

Apple has released firmware updates for all three of its Intel Macs: the MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac mini. The firmware updates enable the machines to run the public beta of Boot Camp, Apple's new software for running Windows XP on a Mac. The updates are available from www. ...more

Microsoft offers peek at new games development tools

Microsoft has introduced a new suite of tools aimed at games developers. Known as the XNA Studio, the tools offer a version of the widely used C# programming language and a development environment. The environment, known as XNA Framework is a custom implementation of the Microsoft . ...more

Internet Explorer 7 goes public with Beta 2

Microsoft has publicly released the second beta of Internet Explorer 7. Available for download from www.microsoft. ...more