Protection busting Bagle virus strikes

The latest version of the Bagle virus attempts to turn off nearly 300 antivirus processes it finds running on infected computers. Sophos alerted users yesterday to Bagle-AA, which is also known as Bagle-AB and Bagle-Z, advising it had already received many reports. Trend Micro had issued a yellow alert for its customers. ...more

Fujifilm gears up for a digicam Christmas

It's certainly camera season at the moment: Fujifilm is releasing three new budget digital cameras this October. The top end offering, the FinePix 2600 Zoom, features a 2megapixel CCD and 3x optical zoom, enhanced by a digital zoom for a maximum 7.5x magnification. ...more

Ringtones are the new Napster

It seems the craze for downloading illicit ringtones for your mobile phone could be costing the music industry $1 million. While you're getting a laugh out of the latest pop tune alerting you to a mobile phone call, a poor musician is counting the lost pennies in their multi-million mansion and some record executive doesn't know where his next fat cat lunch is coming from. But seriously folks, a new study from Envisional, the UK-based Internet monitoring company, has found that while some Web sites charge for these customised tunes, very rarely do any royalties get back to the record companies that own the copyright. ...more

Apple joins the server big league

Apple has made its first serious foray into the high-end server market with the unveiling of Xserve, a new 1U rack-mounted server system, and the announcement of Xserve RAID. Xserve comprises two basic models, featuring either a single 1Ghz G4 processor or dual 1Ghz G4 processors, each processor supplemented by 256K of level 2 cache and 2Mb of DDR level 3 cache. They are the first servers to employ faster DDR (double data rate) SDRAM, with a maximum capacity of 2Gb. ...more

Showdown looms for chess computer challenge

In the computer chess challenge dubbed 'Brains in Bahrain', the series now stands at 3.5 - 3.5 after the computer Deep Fritz pulled level against the grand master Vladimir Kramnik. ...more