InDesign sets the pace

InDesign, Adobe's young rival to the DTP behemoth that is QuarkXpress, comes of age today with the release of version 2 and an impressive 800 plus new features. Perhaps the most striking thing about Adobe's development of InDesign is how in a short period of time it has matched and even surpassed the feature selection of its rival. Even before version 2. ...more

Microsoft warns of Windows 2000 hole

An unchecked buffer in Windows 2000 leaves servers open to exploit. Microsoft has warned of an unchecked buffer in Windows 2000 servers running IIS (Internet Information Server). An attacker could expoit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted WebDAV request that would call the component containing the unchecked buffer. ...more

Microsoft bids to overturn record EU fine

Microsoft is to go to the European Courts this week in a bid to overturn the record fine and conditions imposed by the EU after it found that the company had engaged in anti-competitive practices. Following the decision Microsoft was fined a record half a billion euros and told to open the Windows APIs to rival server manufacturers such as Sun Microsystems and remove Media Player from copies of Windows XP shipped in Europe. In a statement a Microsoft spokesman said 'As we indicated in March, when the European Union issued its decision, Microsoft will appeal the ruling. ...more

Googling banned says Google

Search engine Google has set its lawyers onto publishers who use the term 'to google' and other uses of the name as a verb - even though it is now in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. The company has sent out a flurry of cease and desist letters to media companies including heavyweights such as the Washington Post barring the use of Googling and has helpfully provided a list of appropriate and inappropriate uses of its name in a bid to prevent the so-called 'genericidation' of the name. While a first reaction might to be to advise Google to lighten up and be delighted that 'googling' had entered the language as a synonym for searching, the company's trademark lawyers have been fretting for that very reason. ...more

Another worm burrows Mac OS X's way

A second OS X worm has been identified that exploits an old Bluetooth vulnerability to spread from one Mac to another. Inqtana.A is a 'proof of concept' and harmless worm that relies on a vulnerability in both Panther and Tiger that Apple patched last June. ...more