Nokia beefs up security for new Series 60 smartphone software

Nokia has announced the 3rd Edition of its Series 60 smartphone software. The new version promises improved multimedia functions and better security. In keeping with the trend towards adding ever more functions for the consumer, the 3rd Edition offers a new music player, USB mass memory storage and high-quality multimedia rendering. ...more

Duron ups the ante to 1.2Ghz

AMD has released a budget Duron desktop CPU clocked at 1.2Ghz. This brings it up to speed, and price, with Intel's fastest budget chip: the 1. ...more

Java gets into the Swing of Windows XP

Sun has updated its platform-neutral Java system, with the release of Java 2 Standard Edition v1.4.2 (J2SE). ...more

Firefox opens wallets to fund newspaper ads

Donations from Firefox users have already paid for a full-page advert in the New York Times, with 10 days left to hand over your cash. Spread Firefox, a website dedicated to evangelising the Web browser, set a target of 2,500 donations of $30 each ($10 for students) and within hours that was reached, after the site was slashdotted. As an incentive to give, donors' names will be listed in the ad. ...more

Critical security vulnerability found in Skype

A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in various flavours of the Skype IP telephony software. A boundary error exists when handling Skype-specific URI types such as 'callto://' and 'skype://'. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution when the user clicks on a specially-crafted Skype-specific URL. ...more