EFF warns against plans to strengthen mobile security

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has spoken out against a proposal by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to beef up mobile phone security. The civil liberties body argues the proposals offer little to end users and only serve to support commercial companies' desires to lock down phones, software and content. Seth Schoen, staff technologist at the EFF said: 'We should be working to make cell phones more like PCs rather than making PCs more like restricted cell phones. ...more

Apple confirms end of line for single processor Power Macs

Apple has confirmed that it has stopped manufacturing single processor Power Macs, although some remain in retail channels, including the online UK Apple Store. No reason for the decision has been given. Once the inventory has been sold, the cheapest Power Mac will be the dual 2GHz model for ?1,349, ?350 more expensive then the now defunct model. ...more

Telcos call for EU-wide review of regulations

Telecommunications operators have called upon the European Commission to implement an EU-wide review of the way it regulates the industry. Telcos are concerned that the current rules will not ensure sufficient returns on their investments and have opened the industry up to start-up companies to grab a share of markets. They are particularly worried about revenues from content delivered and sold over their networks. ...more

Bounty offered over sex.com

Just when you thought that the case surrounding the ownership of the sex.com domain name was over, another bizarre twist presents itself. If you've not been following the case, you might not be aware of the story so far. ...more

Intel signs up to join Eclipse consortium

Intel has announced that it has become a supporting member of Eclipse, which is a consortium of software development tool vendors building an 'open platform' for integrating third-party tools. Developers optimising applications for the Pentium 4, Xeon or Itanium processors will be able to use plug-ins to integrate Intel compilers and the VTune Performance Analyzers into the Eclipse development environment. Eclipse describes itself as 'a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular'. ...more