Berners-Lee blasts US Copyright Office

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has taken issue with the US Copyright Office over its insistence that certain online forms can only be submitted using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In an open letter from the W3C which seeks to establish standards for web usage, Lee says that restricting submissions to a single browser is not only against the whole spirit in which the world wide web is established, it is also against the spirit of Federal Information policy. At issue is a new 'pre-registration' system for establishing copyrights. ...more

Gaming goes wireless

Linksys has released a wireless networking adapter for Ethernet-enabled PlayStations, Xboxes and GameCubes. The Wireless-B Game Adapter (WGA11B) plugs into a console's Ethernet port and can provide both wireless access to the Internet or, if two consoles are enables, wireless gaming between them. The adapter is based on the 802. ...more

Dell's PDA hits UK shelves

Dell has officially launched its Axim X5 handheld in the UK and across Europe. The Pocket PC-based handheld is available in two configurations and is aggressively priced. The minimum spec model, with colour screen and 32Mb SDRAM has an RRP of ?169, while more RAM and ROM will cost you ?229. ...more

International phishing gang seized by the Bulgarians

Bulgarian authorities claim to have arrested a gang involved in an international phishing operation. The Bulgarian law-enforcement National Services to Combat Organized Crime (NSCOC) agency said it arrested eight people during raids last week in three Bulgarian cities in connection with financial fraud and identity-theft scams carried out over the Internet. The gang allegedly used spoofed emails that were designed to look as if they were from MSN customer services as well as web pages mocked up to look like MSN content to dupe their victims. ...more

Maya claims Oscar

Alias|Wavefront, developer of the Maya video editing and animation software, has been awarded an Oscar for scientific and technical achievement. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards are a prelude to the main Oscar ceremony and are recognised as the highest acknowledgement of achievement in the industry. Maya is widely used in Hollywood and has been used on a number of Visual Effects Oscar winning movies. ...more