Gates memo: security is the new priority

Has Bill Gates finally been woken by recent security alarms? In what resembles a wake-up call over security issues, Bill Gates has urged his company to give greater priority to the security of the software it produces. In a memo sent to all Microsoft employees - which was released to the media yesterday - he urged them to 'choose security' when considering adding new features or resolving security issues. With the subject title of 'Trustworthy Computing', Gates says that 'it has become clear that ensuring . ...more

Six Apart scales up Movable Type blogging

Six Apart has unveiled the next version of its Movable Type blogging software. And taken a swipe at better-known software providers in the process. The beta version of Movable Type (MT) 4, provides a 'reinvented' user interface with a dashboard overview of all of your blogs; support for publishing standalone pages and managing file assets and images; new community features; and a redesigned component architecture designed to make it faster and more scalable. ...more

IPTV companies club on single standards push

Companies that provide TV over the Internet (IPTV) joined forces on Monday to set a single global standard so that systems can work together. The Open IPTV Forum is backed by companies including Ericsson, Matsushita's Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens AG, Sony, AT&T, Telecom Italia and France Telecom. Not on the starting list are Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft, the market leaders and alliance partners in IPTV networks and software. ...more

Mozilla updates the Thunderbird email client

The Mozilla Organisation has released an update for its fully-features email client, Thunderbird. In addition to a lengthy list of bug fixes, the update provides several new features, including: the ability to have several email addresses going into the same account; Secure Password Authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for POP3 and SMTP; a new Palm Sync address book conduit; and an improved Spell Checker. All the changes are listed in the release notes. ...more

New Eudora takes on spam

Qualcomm has released a new version of its Eudora email software including a new, intelligent anti-spam component. SpamWatch comprises several tools designed to work 'right out of the box'. Spam is placed in a junk mail box and given a numeric ranking - its 'junk score' - where a higher number indicates e-mail with a greater number of criteria defining that mail as spam. ...more