Firefox 1.01 released

The Mozilla Organisation has updated its Firefox Web browser, improving stability and security. Amongst the security enhancements are displaying the hostname in the title bar when the address bar is hidden. The change is hoped to reduce the scope for spoofing web sites. ...more

China fines Yahoo! over unlicensed music sites

A Beijing court has ordered Yahoo! China to delete links to free websites offering music-downloads and to pay about 200,000 yuan (?12,922) for facilitating distribution of unlicensed songs by other sites, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. But in the ruling published on a Chinese website linked to the Court, Beijing's No. 2 Intermediate Court said Yahoo! China should bear some responsibility for the copyright infringement, although the music was downloaded from servers of third-party websites. ...more

Yahoo!, Symantec team up to take on Microsoft

Symantec has introduced its much trailed online security software suite targeting home users. The surprise is that Symantec has chosen to do so in partnership with online portal Yahoo! Named, somewhat prosaicly, 'Norton Internet Security provided by Yahoo!', the new suite of online tools is aimed at countering Microsoft's recent OneCare Live security suite. As with OneCare Live, the suite comprises firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware as well as offering anti-spam tools to provide detection and blockage of keyboard loggers, personal data theft, viruses and unwanted adware. ...more

Mobilexpo 2001 highlight - Samsung

Electronics giant Samsung were showing off three next-generation phones at the Mobilexpo 2001 show in Birmingham in the shape of the TV phone, the combined watch phone and the camera phone. The Samsung SCH-M220 (pictured) allows users to make phone calls and watch TV programmes on the move. It features a 1. ...more

Grand Theft Auto makes grab for Sega games

Take-Two Interactive Software, the people behind the Grand Theft Auto game series, has acquired Sega's sports game development studios. In a $24mn deal it has taken over Visual Concepts Entertainment and Kush Games, reports Reuters. According to the news agency, the cash deal includes the rights to the 2K sports video game brand. ...more