OLED screens brighten Sony handhelds

Sony may be puling its Clie handhelds out of the US and Europe, but that doesn't mean the company has lost all faith in the handheld market. The latest Palm-powered Clie PEG-VZ90 will feature the first of Sony's Organic LED screens (OLED) - as it drives the technology into mass production. An OLED display differs from conventional TFTs in that it uses an organic layer that emits light when voltage is applied. ...more

Intel recalls 1.13GHz Pentium III

Intel has recalled its flagship processor, the 1.13GHz Pentium III, confirming that the chip suffers from a glitch that can cause systems to crash. The announcement follows reports on a number of Web sites that systems powered by Intel's latest chip had crashed when performing certain operations. ...more

Website reveals Windows 2000 and XP SP1 DoS vulnerability

A potential vulnerability in Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows XP Service Pack 1 has been publicly revealed by the French Security Incident Response Team. The organisation has drawn the ire of Microsoft by publishing details of a proof-of-concept exploit that targets the vulnerability. According to the author, a specially crafted request to upnp_getdevicelist can cause services. ...more

Legal music sharing service launching in the UK

Several UK independent record labels have given the go ahead to a new service that allows subscribers to legally swap music files. The PlayLouder MSP service creates a 'walled garden' of users, who will be able to exchange licensed music files amongst themselves using standard file sharing clients such as Kazaa. PlayLouder itself will be just one peer, feeding new music files into the network. ...more

Teenage virus author gets probation for two years

A teenage virus author has been put on probation for two years after being convicted of writing Magold-A. The teenager, from Hungary and who goes under the nickname Laszlo K, was caught after it was discovered he had used his personal email addresses to send out some of the initial infected emails. He was first sentenced to a year behind bars yesterday, but this was later softened to two years' probation and a fine of roughly ?1,300. ...more