Text messaging breaks 900m barrier

New figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA) indicate that quite a few of you must have got an SMS-compatible mobile phone for Christmas. According to the figures, British mobile phone users sent a startling 900m text messages during the month of January. This figure shows a 200m increase on December's 700m messages and it looks as if the craze for SMS text messaging isn't going to slow down. ...more

Cisco's OS source code 'stolen'

A Russian security site securitylab.ru is claiming that someone has stolen the source code of the CISCO IOS 12.3, 12. ...more

Spring IDF 2006: USB goes wireless

Wireless USB (WUSB) got one step closer to your PC, as Intel announced the ratification of Certified Wireless USB by the USB Implementers Forum (USB_IF). As well as nailing the standard, Intel also announced a certification program to ensure compatibility between devices. WUSB will offer throughputs of 480Mbit/sec at 3m and 110Mbit/sec at 10m, outstripping its competition, Bluetooth. ...more

G8 signals renewed attack on Internet child abuse

The world's richest countries have vowed to redouble efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children by Internet pornographers. Interior and justice ministers from the G8 nations - Germany, USA, Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia promised to step up efforts to stamp out child porn during the first working session of a conference on Web crime in Munich, Germany. 'We categorically denounce those who sexually exploit children by producing images of their sexual abuse and by distributing or collecting such images,' they said in the joint declaration. ...more

UK to pioneer download-to-own movies

Film fans will soon be able to download and keep DVD quality movies quite legally. Universal Pictures, one of the big Hollywood movie studios, says it will introduce the download service in the UK from next month and expects it to spread rapidly around the world shortly afterwards. Until now, movies have only been legally available as pay-per-view streamed video or for a limited time. ...more