Google Video service sticks to the script

Google, for once, is playing catch up to search engine rival Yahoo! by launching its own Google Video service Google Video is based around an index of the subtitles or transcripts of US television shows although only from a limited number of channels at present. By entering keywords into the search box, Google returns results based on the text of the shows. Thus, entering 'Iraq' as a keyword will, unsurprisingly, return a large number of news shows and a snippet of the transcript where Iraq is mentioned along with a still image of the programme. ...more

Sony's new Cyber-shot digital still cameras

Sony UK has today announced three new models in its Cyber-shot digital still camera range. The three new models, the DSC-P32, DSC-P52 and DSC-P72 are said to offer a 3 megapixel image quality. The cameras are also among the first Sony products to be compatible with Memory Stick PRO, which extends their data capacity up to 1GB. ...more

Microsoft signs up anti-phishing partners

Microsoft has signed up three partners to provide it with a constantly up-to-date picture of the global phishing threat for its online software and services. With Microsoft's ambitions to win on web services it is already in the midst of moving a good chunk of its flagship software online in the form of its Live! Office-based services. And the high levels of browser-hijacking and surfers being sent to malicious websites that inject code via phishing attacks could seriously jeopardise momentum. ...more

JBuilder 6 is brewed

Borland brings to the brew another version of its Java development system. New features in version 6 - and it is only six months since the debut of JBuilder 5 - include support for the 'visual' drag and drop approach while working with Enterprise Java Beans. For those who model with UML (Universal Modelling Language), there are new code visualisation, unit testing and documentation tools. ...more

US Navy orders 260 Xserves

Lockheed Martin has placed an order on behalf of the US Navy for 260 Apple Xserve servers running Linux. As well as being the biggest server sale yet for Apple, worth around $1.9mn, the deal is remarkable for the fact that the machines will not be running the Mac OS X Server software that is normally installed. ...more