eBay intros Skype service and Wiki

Auction site eBay has unveiled the first collaborations with Skype following the $2.6 billion acquisition of the VoIP pioneer last year. eBay is also clambering aboard the 'social networking' bandwagon with two new products - eBay Blogs and the eBay Wiki. ...more

Quark keynote addresses industry problems

Quark's keynote address at the Seybold conference in San Francisco focused on ways of dealing with the current downturn in the publishing industry. Jurgen Kurtz, vice president of product management, reminded his audience that the publishing industry is having to cope with advertising revenues down as much as 70 per cent, meaning that companies are being forced to cut staffing levels in order to keep costs down and re-purpose as much content as possible. QuarkXPress, he said, is the ideal tool for re-purposing content and the forthcoming version 5 is very much focused on making this process as automatic and simple as possible. ...more

New HP Integrity servers bring the high-end Unix systems to SMBs

Alongside the launch of a new version of HP-UX, computer maker HP has launched two new products in its Integrity high-availability server range - a variant of the BladeSystem c-Class technology launched late last year and a new rack-mountable 2U conventional server.l as The two products use Intel Itanium 2 processors in both single and dual-core configurations. Both make use of new cooling fans based on jet engine technology to deliver improved cooling, as well as being power-efficient. ...more

Criminal gangs threaten online bookies with denial of service attacks

Criminal gangs are trying to blackmail online bookmakers in advance of the Grand National in April, according to the Financial Times. The gangs are threatening DDoS attacks on online web sites servers making it impossible for visitors to contact them to make bets. According to KPMG the British Internet gambling market was worth ?2. ...more

Firefox 1.0 released

The Mozilla Organisation has released the first full version of Firefox, on the back of more than eight million download of the preview release. In the space of two months the browser has gone from an also-ran to provide the first challenger in many years to the hegemony of Internet Explorer. According to the latest WebSideStory figures, IE's share of worldwide browser usage has dropped from around 96 per cent to 92 per cent. ...more