CES: Sanyo unveils pocket sized camcorder

Small digital camcorders are typical of the types of toys that bring tech lovers to CES, and those staffing Sanyo's stand can expect a busy four days. The company is showing off the VPC-04 camcorder here and, weighing 5.4 ounces and small enough to fit in your pocket, it's one of the more eye-catching products to be named a CES Innovations 2005 Awards honoree. ...more

EA noses in front in number one Christmas game stakes

Collected your winnings on David Cameron? Still wondering whether to take a punt on a White Christmas? Then how about betting on what the top selling game this Christmas is going to be. ELSPA, which compiles the weekly games chart has teamed up with Ladbrokes to run a book on which is going to be the game that Santa slips into the most stockings this Christmas. Current favourite is Electronic Arts 'Need for Speed: Most Wanted' at evens. ...more

Yahoo! launches tech site

Yahoo has launched a new 'technology' site aimed at people who are baffled by the wealth of gadgets and gizmos on offer. The site tech.yahoo. ...more

Mozilla fixes Firefox bugs

Firefox has been updated to address three outstanding security issues. The update fixes the following vulnerabilities: drag and drop loading of privileged XUL; arbitrary code execution from Firefox sidebar pan; and GIF heap overflow parsing Netscape extension 2. Firefox 1. ...more

Apple finds open source turning sour

Apple's relationship with the open source community has come under renewed attack after reports on the Web that KHTML developers are unhappy with the way the direction that Apple has taken with Safari. KHTML is an open source rendering engine - the software that takes the HTML and Javascript code that makes up Web pages and turns it into something readable on a computer screen. Apple chose it, rather than the Mozilla Gecko engine, when it decided to develop its own browser, namely Safari, which was released in January 2003. ...more