The French out bet the British in online gambling

The French have taken to online gambling like a duck a l'orange to water, according to Europe-wide figures from analysts Nielsen//NetRatings. February's numbers showed that more than 22 per cent of those online spent over an hour betting. This was about three times the average UK online gambler spent having a flutter. ...more

Mozilla tests improved Firefox

Mozilla has begun testing builds of Firefox that include a new spatial navigation feature. This lets users navigate links in Web pages using the cursor keys; links are selected based on their relative visual positions. The feature was initially developed for Minimo, Mozilla's browser for portable devices and may become a default accessibility tool in future Firefox releases. ...more

New security holes identified for Internet Explorer post SP 2

Secunia has highlighted critical security holes on Internet Explorer on Windows computers that have already installed Service Pack 2. The first hole occurs when a user drags an image or video file directly from within an HTML page displayed into the 'local' zone, by dropping it onto the desktop, for example. The second can be exploited by embedding an HTML help control on to a page on a website that will cause an HTML page stored on the target machine to run. ...more

Amazon says sorry for price testing

Amazon.com has apologised for the random 'price test' it was discovered to be runnning, but has denied the 'different prices for different people' scheme was ever based on customer profiles. In a prepared statement, Amazon. ...more

AOL Europe chums up to Lastminute.com

AOL Europe is to integrate Lastminute.com's booking engine within its service. No real details have been revealed, but Reuters reports that sources suggest Lastminute will pay around $1m for the 12-month agreement. ...more