PowerBook powers up to 800MHz

Apple has revamped its PowerBook line-up, adding two new 800MHz models and incorporating an enhanced 1280x854 15.2 inch display. At the entry level is a 667MHz PowerBook with 256MB RAM, a 30GB hard disk and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive, selling for ?2,149 (ex. ...more

Javascript disclosure vulnerability claims Netscape

Netscape has been added to the list of browsers suffering the javascript engine information disclosure vulnerability. The flaw was revealed earlier this week and also affects Firefox, Camino and Mozilla. Described as moderately critical, the vulnerability could be exploited to access potentially sensitive information. ...more

Internet sees new Web revival

The Web is back, according to Internet monitoring company Netcraft. In its study of numbers of websites online during the last six months, it has noted phenomenal growth 'approaching the torrid growth rate of 2000'. From May to June Netcraft counted nearly 65 million active sites, an increase of 1. ...more

SUSE frees Linux 9.0 for download

SUSE is to make SUSE Linux 9.0 available for free via its FTP server. Following hard on the heels of Red Hat announcing that it was dropping support for its basic version of its Linux operating system distribution, SUSE has decided it will now pick up the reigns. ...more

File-sharing Brits push music industry losses north of ?1bn

File-sharing has cost the UK music industry ?1.1bn over the past three years, according to the industry's main trade group, the BPI. The BPI said that independent research by TNS Worldpanel estimates that in 2005, p2p sharing resulted in lost sales worth ?414mn, an increase on ?278mn in 2003 and ?376mn in 2004. ...more