Opera attendances rising in Europe

Opera updates its browser and claims growing European market share over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The Norwegian company Opera has released version 6.01 of its eponymous browser, which is a 'recommended' set of bug fixes and tweaks for the last major point release. ...more

PC World revisits child online safety

PC World has updated its 'Safe Surfing' campaign for online child safety. In conjunction with Parents Online - a Department of Education programme - the store has commissioned new research on the security of youthful Internet browsing. The figures presented by NEMS market research show that 40 per cent of parents never supervise their children when online and 38 per cent take no action - in terms of software or the configuration of a PC - to provide automated protection. ...more

Microsoft tackles phishing with Office 2003 SP2

Microsoft has unveiled Service Pack 2 for Office 2003. Among the improvements, Outlook receives a series of updates to help safeguard against phishing. These include notifying the user of suspicious URLs and automatically disabling those links. ...more

University to set up archive of bust dot com company business plans

Budding entrepreneurs and historians of the future will be able to look back on the madness of the dot com boom. The University of Maryland has received government and private grants to archive the business and marketing plans of those companies launched between 1996 and 2002 that thought having a domain name and venture capital backing meant they could retire at 25. The University of Maryland's Robert H. ...more

Anti-music is killing music

Forget file sharing, record labels have only themselves to blame for faltering CD sales according to CD mastering specialist Bob Speer. Speer claims that the reason that music fans are not buying as many CDs as before is because they are simply too loud. More accurately in the 'race' to make the music as loud as possible, dynamic range has been sacrificed. ...more