Grammy Apple

Apple will receive a Technical Grammy at the Recording Academy's 44th annual music awards on 26 February. The award recognises Apple's 'inventiveness and versatility,' said Recording Academy president Michael Greene. He commended Apple - and fellow winner Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesiser - for 'products of their inspiration' that, 'introduced electronic technology into the public consciousness, put the power of creation into the hand of the individual and revolutionised the recording industry. ...more

Sun fears Eclipse may threaten Java's future existence

Sun has published an open letter to the Eclipse Consortium, outlining its concerns over the future of the Open Source tool environment, as it severs it IBM umbilical cord and gains independence as of today. The letter essentially outlines Sun's desire to see its NetBeans Java platform accepted by Eclipse, despite the organisation's requirement that participants adopt the Eclipse environment. 'Any entry criteria requiring that Sun abandon the NetBeans open source platform directly conflicts with the concept of choice and diversity, the very bases that gave Eclipse its beginning. ...more

China promises to become world's largest Net user

China is set to become the world's largest Net user within two years, outsurfing the US. According to figures for 2006 released by the China Internet Networks Information Centre (CNNIC), the People's Republic now boasts 137 million Internet users, up 23.4 per cent year on year. ...more

Poor patching keeps Internet worms at highest threat

Kapersky Labs has published a virus report for 2002, showing top 4 viruses exploit the same flaw in IE. In a year where highly publicised viruses such as BugBear and Opasoft would have led one to suppose that most Web-savvy users were well aware of the threat from the Net, Kapersky Labs' annual report proves that a significant proportion of users are not keeping their software up to date. The top four viruses for 2002 all exploit an IFRAME security hole in Internet Explorer that can be easily fixed simply by applying the latest patch. ...more

The PC Pro weekly news round-up

Computex 2007 dominates the news this week, along with Microsoft signing up companies for Linux-related patent protection plans. From Taiwan we reported on Intel developments - the $200 Asus laptop making waves, the arrival of the 3-Series chipset, and the chip giant claiming 45nm Core 2 Duo processors are ready to enter production. We also reported on a range of tiny Via-powered UMPCs, next-gen motherboards from Foxconn and the brain-controlled PC device. ...more