Intel pushes the Celeron to 1.3Ghz

Intel's new 1.3Ghz Celeron follows the 1.2 edition with its Tualatin core and 256Kb of cache. ...more

Red Hat hit by security-update email scam

Red Hat is warning users that an email purporting to be a security update may contain malicious code. The email - which began appearing last Friday - uses a security@redhat.com address in the from field and the subject line 'RedHat: "Buffer Overflow in 'ls' and 'mkdir'". ...more

New Google tools aim to sharpen up News coverage

Google has introduced a Sitemap protocol and new webmaster tools for Google News in order to improve both the 'freshness' of its coverage and to enable webmaster to determine precisely what content they want to appear on the news aggregation service. News Sitemaps tell Google exactly which articles to crawl for inclusion in Google News. The News Sitemaps XML definition lets webmasters specify a publication date and time for each article and to set keywords for each article that determine placement of the articles into the relevant sections on Google News. ...more

Google doubles size of Web index

Google has doubled the size of its index of the Web. The search engine can now trawl through eight billion pages to find the information you request. Bill Coughran, vice president, Engineering, notes in the Google Blog that the real benefit of this enlargement 'lies with the queries that generate fewer results'. ...more

Samsung MP3 player features slide-out speaker

Samsung has announced its new K5 (YP-K5) mp3 player, which features a slide-out speaker. The K5 looks the standard candy stick with a colour OLED screen at the top and a multi-directional keypad beneath. Samsung's neat trick is the speaker, which slides out and flips up. ...more