Microsoft creates core Windows team

Microsoft has created what it is calling Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD) within the Windows Platform Group topped with some heavy hitters, to push along the development of Windows. While the company insisted previous announcements about schedules for Longhorn (the next version of the operating system), and security enhancements for current products would not be affected, communications from Microsoft on the subject were infused with the sense that the company is stepping up several gears. So perhaps the company's schedules would have been affected had it failed to renew focus on driving development. ...more

IBM claims WiFi chipset breakthrough

IBM is claiming a breakthrough in wireless technology which, the company says, could lead to a new generation of wireless electronic devices that are able to transmit and receive ten times faster than today's advanced WiFi networks. Based around silicon germanium compound, the chipset is able to send and receive information in a portion of the radio spectrum that is currently unlicensed and can carry a much higher volume of data. The new technology uses the portion of the radio spectrum from roughly 30 to 300 GHz, which is referred to as 'millimeter wave' frequency bands, since the waves in a signal within these bands is measured in millimeters. ...more

ICANN can't get the .uk money in

Debt collection is not a problem you would normally associate with Internet regulation bodies. ICANN, however, is facing a dispute over charges for maintaining regional suffixes on its root servers. These root servers effectively function as the master directories of the Internet, so a listing there is essential for browsers to locate sites using suffixes such as . ...more

First Class email vulnerability identified

A minor vulnerability has been found in the First Class email client. Designated less than critical, he vulnerability is caused due to lack of restrictions on URLs in Internet bookmarks. This can be exploited to supply UNC paths in Internet bookmark files to local or network resources. ...more

My MP3.com, the second time around

The service that launched a thousand lawsuits against MP3.com has re-launched, but this time around no one is getting into any trouble. The re-vamped service is no longer a free-for-all. ...more