Orange steals number two spot from BT Cellnet

Orange could well be the UK number two mobile phone operator after adding 830,000 customers in the second quarter. The French-owned company has probably edged ahead of BT Cellnet to become second only to Vodafone, with 11.9 million UK customers. ...more

Trend Micro updates phone defences

Trend Micro has launched a second version of its Mobile Security software for Nokia's Series 60 Platform. Trend Micro Mobile Security 2.0 is a Symbian Signed (industry endorsed) application that is designed to offer enhanced antivirus and SMS spam protection for Nokia's Series 60-based platform for smartphones. ...more

Apple turns to embedded verse to warn off hackers

Apple has turned to light verse to help deter hackers. The company has embedded a stanza of poetry within the version of OS X built to run on Intel-based machines, which are the target of hackers looking to illegally 'port' the Apple platform to non-Apple PCs. The embedded poem reads: 'Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he'd do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined. ...more

Firefox breaks 50 million download barrier

The Mozilla foundation is claiming that Firefox, the open source browser, has passed the 50 million download mark since version 1.0 was released in November of last year According to the Mozilla foundation, this number is purely downloads and doesn't include upgrades to the recently released version 1.03. ...more

CES 2007: Warner Bros trumpets support for Total HD

Warner Bros. Entertainment says that top retailers in the States have agreed to stock its proposed new video disc, which is compatible with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD players. The likes of Amazon, Best Buy, and Circuit City Stores will support the discs, studio executives said on Tuesday. ...more