Jaguar shipping in UK

Jaguar - Mac OS X 10.2 - has started shipping on new Macs in the UK, more than a week before its official 24 August release. The new Power Macs, announced on Tuesday, are shipping with OS X 10. ...more

French Senate strips out controversial DRM clause

The French Senate has stripped the country's new copyright law proposals of a clause that would force companies to open up DRM copy-protection technologies. The Senate's Commission of Cultural Affairs has removed a clause that would have required DRM operators to provide competitors with information needed for interoperability with their DRM technology. The clause had been condemned by Apple, with the backing of the US Department of Commerce. ...more

VersionTracker streamlines ugrades

TechTracker, which runs the popular software update site VersionTracker.com, has released its new personalisation tool TechTracker Pro. This software allows users to customise VersionTracker's Mac update information to match their own applications and interests. ...more

OS X is world's most secure operating system, report concludes

Mac OS X and BSD Unix have been named as the world's safest and most secure online computing environments after a year-long study by enterprise security specialists mi2g. In what is describes as 'the most comprehensive study ever undertaken', mi2g's Intelligence Unit analysed over 235,000 security breaches against permanently online systems and found that Mac OS X or BSD (on which OS X is partly based) accounted for just 4.82 per cent of all successful attacks. ...more

New high-end PowerShots from Canon

The S30 and S40 are the two additions to the PowerShot range, courtesy of Canon. Offering 3 and 4 megapixel CCDs respectively, the units house a new DSP and improved RGB filter as well as a 3x optical zoom and a RAW image capture mode. The cameras have SLR functionality, with 13 shooting modes and three AF modes. ...more