Mozilla 1.6 beta released

The Mozilla Organisation has released the latest beta of its eponymous Internet software suite. The release focuses primarily onfixing bugs in the previous alpha version, though there is one new feature - a cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism - and one restored - the Translate Page functionality is back. Mozilla 1. ...more

mm02 writes off value of 3G investments

What was Gordon Brown's gain has been mm02's loss according to its latest preliminary financial results for the year. The Exchequer, of course was the recipient of revenue from the 3G licence bidding process. The UK telco has now bitten the bullet on the devaluation of its 3G investments and written them down to the tune of ?9. ...more

Oftel about face: Local Loop Unbundling a 'niche area'

In a report in today's FT, Oftel Director General Dave Edmonds said that Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) was only ever a 'niche area' that was contrived to 'produce a competitive threat' to BT to hasten its own broadband rollout. LLU is where rival operators can move their own equipment into BT's exchanges to take traffic on to their own networks. Currently, the likes of Bulldog, Energis and Tiscali all take advantage of LLU where it's available. ...more

ATI releases Mobility FireGL T2

Mobile workstations sound like a contradiction in terms. Such is the power of modern notebooks, however, that some can punch with workstation-class performance. Fulfilling the role of the high-end graphics processor within such machines is the ATI Mobility FireGL T2. ...more

Incidence of Internet worms wriggles higher

Levels of Internet worm viruses rose by one per cent last month according to security experts Sophos. The company believes around one in 18 emails is laden with a virus - around 5.6 per cent. ...more