Microsoft targets the phishers

Microsoft says it plans a legal onslaught on the phishers. Microsoft says it is undertaking a massive legal campaign against the phishers. The company has revealed that by the end of June 2006 it will have started legal actions in more than 100 cases throughout the European, Middle East and Africa against people alleged to behind online fraud. ...more

Adobe unveils Photoshop 6

Adobe has finally take the wraps off Photoshop 6. The long-awaited upgrade includes a raft of new features, tools and usability enhancements that will reaffirm Photoshop's position as the image manipulation package of choice. Key additions include the integration of vector-drawing support, enabling the creation of editable, resolution-independent vector shapes and text and output to PDF files. ...more

IT Forum 2005: Office 12 Technical Beta released

Slightly earlier than expected, the next generation of Microsoft's office Suite has gone into a technical beta release, available only to nominated Microsoft customers and partners. Codenamed Office 12, the new functionality of the productivity suite was highlighted in the keynote of Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division. As we reported on Tuesday, Microsoft had scheduled a closely controlled release, with a broad public beta planned for the spring of 2006 (you can register to be notified of its availability at www. ...more

VoiceXML talks to the Web

When it comes to communicating with companies, telephone automated systems are not the most popular of things. Well, they could be about to take another, Web-enabled form.. ...more

IDF Fall 2006: Intel confirms November quad-core release

At the first full day of the Intel Developer Forum Fall 2006, Intel has completely taken the wraps off its first quad-core chip and announced availability in November. The chip, previously codenamed Kentsfield, is now officially called the Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Being composed of two separate dual-core dies in one physical package, the new offering will run at 2. ...more