Dreamweaver updated

Macromedia has released a 4.01 update to Dreamweaver. The update solves several problems relating to FTP, EUC encoding, Context Sensitivity, Netscape 6, JavaScript API and SourceSafe and WebDAV integration. ...more

Hacker gets access to largest reported loss in business history

We wouldn't normally write about the North American telco JDS Uniphase, but throw in massive business losses and a hacker gaining privileged early access to the horrific figures and you have an attention-grabbing story. The US/Canadian company has reported what is believed to be one of the biggest losses in business history - writing off $44.8bn from the value of companies it had acquired in recent years. ...more

Napster boasts world's largest catalogue of digital tracks

With both HMV and Virgin throwing their weight behind the relaunch of their online music services - HMV Digital and Virgin Digital.com, respectively - Napster is keen to remind people of its place in the music download market. The once-illegitimate file-swapping service has publicly updated its UK business stats. ...more

FireWire body gives nod to aerial cable-based home networks

The 1394 Trade Association, which oversees the FireWire standard, has demonstrated how the technology can be used to create home networks over existing coax cables. Together with the the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA), the association showed how the technology, known as 1394 over coax via UWB, can use existing home coax (aerial cables) to connect HDTVs, personal video recorders, DVD players, multimedia PCs, set-top boxes and network attached storage devices and others. James Snider, executive director of the 1394 Trade Association, said that FireWire's guaranteed quality of service content protection mechanisms are maintained without any need to modify existing coax infrastructure with throughput exceeding the capabilities of other technologies. ...more

Mean Fiddler.com buys back venues

UK music company, Mean Fiddler.com has bought back its "bricks and mortar" assets in an attempt to strengthen its brand, from chairman Vince Power, in a deal worth ?32m. The assets include London venues such as the Astoria, Jazz Caf?, Mean Fiddler and the Garage, as well as the Fleadh and Reading festivals. ...more