MySpace tables $250 million deal for Photobucket - report

MySpace has reached a preliminary deal to acquire Photobucket, the world's top photo-sharing site, for around $250 million in cash, a source familiar with the deal said on Monday. Photobucket functions like a kind of Swiss bank for depositing and transmitting photos, helping Web users post their photos on other social networking sites, instead of trying to keep the users locked up on its own site. Besides MySpace, Photobucket is popular on sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga. ...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

02-02-2001 Essential news of the week

Brought neatly together and presented on a plate, here is a roundup of some of the week's main news stories from the world of IT. Tesco makes British biggest online shoppers Microsoft shuts Windows 95 An envoy to the land of e Gameboy Advance fever grips Japan Another attempt to crack the glass books Free Internet phone calls Intel follows in Crusoe's footsteps Dreamcast goes back in the box The price of high-bandwidth services Don't forget, we welcome your comments. Just click on a story and go for the 'Comments' link on the right-hand side of the screen. ...more

Bagle-A virus runs rings round the Net

A new virus - Bagle-A - is running rings round the Net, but will self-destruct on 28 January Bagle-A was first discovered yesterday. But MessageLabs says it has already received 45,000 reports of the worm, the first of which came from Germany, but the majority of those following emanating from Australia. Trend Micro issued an alert for Bagle-A, with its first reports arriving from the States, but having also seen large numbers from Japan, Australia and Germany. ...more

From deep in the forest comes the Intel concept PC

Paving the way from the darkest depths of Intel's R&D comes the "Deep Forest Concept PC". It's a small - but perfectly powerful - prototype developed jointly with Hewlett-Packard, and Intel hopes that it will be a path for PC makers to follow. Housing a Pentium 4 processor and featuring a small footprint measuring about the size of a lunchbox (approximately 10"x 13"x 4"), it's designed   to handle demanding multimedia and next-generation e-business applications. ...more