BlueCore backing for Bluetooth

One of the most influential Bluetooth companies, Cambridge Silicon Radio, gave the under-fire wireless standard a boost today, by announcing a new product that promises to attract even more phone manufacturers to the market. The product itself is called the BlueCore2-ROM. It's a single-chip Bluetooth solution that will add the wireless standard to phones. ...more

Yahoo! crawls the Web from new address

Yahoo! has finished moving its Web crawler to a new domain. Slurp, which indexes pages for Yahoo!'s search engine, will now operate from crawl.yahoo. ...more

Five new flaws from Microsoft

Microsoft has released a security update for Internet Explorer that tackles five new flaws as well as including previous MS patchwork for the browser and email program. The vulnerabilities receive the aggregate stamp of Critical from Microsoft and affect all supported versions of Windows: from 98 and NT 4.0 to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, including 64bit versions. ...more

UK games chart: Colin McRae's driving game rallies back

Superhero movie spin-off The Incredibles swaps places with FIFA 2005, moving up from four to three - this is the main change at the top of this week's ELSPA UK games chart. Need For Speed: Underground 2 (now in its tenth week in the charts) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (in its thirteenth week) show their staying power and stay at the top of the file for another week. And Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 4 completes the top five. ...more

iPod mini audio problems surface

The first signs of dissatisfaction with Apple's iPod mini surfaced over the weekend, with users reporting a crackling noise when any buttons are pressed. A number of mini owners have found that the problem starts to occur after about five weeks, though Apple has been happy to replace affected units. The reports have been made via a thread in the iPodlounge forums; one account, posted by raul, says, 'the life expectancy for the mini is between 35 and 40 days; my new one is doing ok, but now i have that feeling that it will happen again. ...more