NEC launches the Versa P520 notebook

NEC has launched the Versa P520. It is a 15.1in notebook that - NEC claims - delivers the performance of a workstation to mobile business users. ...more

Microsoft announces DRM milestones

Microsoft aims to make audio, video and eBooks more secure after the company announced that it has passed two key Digital Rights Management (DRM) milestones. The first milestone relates to the DRM system used with Microsoft's Windows Media technology. The company has said that over 7. ...more

Camino 1.0 finally appears

It has been a long time in the making, but the open source Web browser for the Mac, Camino 1.0, has finally been released. Based on the same standards-oriented rendering engine as Firefox, Camino has been built specifically for the Mac and as a result is designed to be tightly integrated with OS X. ...more

BT to buy PlusNet for ?67m

BT has made a cash offer for the UK ISP Plusnet The deal, based on a cash offer of 210p per share, will add 200,000 broadband subscribers to BT's own broadband customer base. The offer has been unanimously recommended by the PlusNet directors. PlusNet revealed it was being wooed by a potential buyer more than a month ago, prompting its stock to surge some 30 per cent towards the 200p range. ...more

FBI lured to Birmingham for crime conference

The FBI is to attend a conference on cybercrime in Birmingham next week. The two-day conference has been arranged by the National Crime Squad (NCS) and will bring together representatives from 20 countries. The aim is to thrash out problems to do with electronic extortion with security forces and industry experts. ...more