New Media New Charity

In terms of charity, we British are not as generous with our donations as we sometimes like to think, being left well behind in the giving-stakes by our more charitable American cousins, for example. But new research suggests this may change. We often run stories that show the Net in its darker and stranger form, so we are more than happy to balance the picture with a more positive report of online behaviour - the emergence through the Internet of "young and well-informed" donors. ...more

Opera suffers security vuln, offers fix

A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the Opera Web browser. Secunia Advisory SA16907 warns that the Opera Command Line URL Shell Command Injection flaw could be exploited to compromise a user's system. For example it could be used to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into following a malicious link in an external application which uses Opera as the default browser. ...more

Minute MuVo2 player boasts massive 1.5GB storage

Barely the size of a matchbox and weighing far less than a bag of sugar, Creative's new MuVo2 has a veritable double garage of 1.5GB, or 25 hours' worth, of room in which to store your music. Built around a 1. ...more

Camino 1.0 finally appears

It has been a long time in the making, but the open source Web browser for the Mac, Camino 1.0, has finally been released. Based on the same standards-oriented rendering engine as Firefox, Camino has been built specifically for the Mac and as a result is designed to be tightly integrated with OS X. ...more

Nokia turns to Safari for smartphone browser

Nokia is building a Web browser for its Series 60 smartphones which is based upon Apple's open source Safari technologies. Apple made the code for its WebKit, WebCore and JavaScript Core open source last week. The technologies underpin Apple's Safari Web browser and its Dashboard software as well as several browsers and applications from other developers. ...more