Software vendors denounced for poor security

The SANS Institute today issued a call to arms for corporates fed up with insecure software. As the institute delivered its annual top 20 security threats list, Alan Paller, Director at SANS delivered a biting speech denouncing the software industry's lack of responsibility for security within the products they build and called on corporate customers to use their financial clout to force vendors to preconfigure applications before agreeing a purchase. 'Fix it when you have the pounds in your hand, not afterwards,' he told an audience of security experts at a conference at the Department of Trade and Industry this morning. ...more

Surf the Net from the skies

British Airways is testing a system that will allow its passengers to surf the Net from the comfort of their seats. The airline wants to be the first company to offer in-flight Internet and e-mail access and, thanks to advances in telecommunications, such a system could be in place by 2002. Aimed primarily at business users, the passenger will be able to connect their laptop computers to telephone sockets in the back of plane seats. ...more

Arm puts the Swerve in 3D mobile gaming

UK processor design company Arm is boosting 3D gameplay on mobile phones. The company has announced that Sinjisoft has licensed Swerve Client technology - jointly developed by ARM and Superscape - for use in its GNEX software (a popular gaming system in Korea). Swerve Client will provide the 3D graphics engine to enable colour 3D gaming on handsets. ...more

The Mafia - 21st century style

It seems that most crimes these days have an electronic variant, but now old-style criminals are jumping on the bandwagon. Most recently, the Mafia have put down their guns and picked up their laptops. Italian police recently cracked a Mafia-led attempt to steal two trillion lire (that's about ?300 million) via an online bank fraud. ...more

Fujitsu unveils 'world's smallest' convertible UMPC

Fujitsu has unveiled what it claims is the 'world's smallest' tablet-convertible UMPC. The 580g 'business' device looks like a normal laptop with a full keyboard, but also swivels into the tablet configuration. The device is only 26. ...more