Microsoft closes Hotmail to Outlook and Outlook Express users

From today, new users of Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express won't be able to view Hotmail emails for free. The company has announced that in future the service will only be available to subscribers of the MSN premium services costing $19.95. ...more

Google makes Google Pack Brit-ish

Google has kindly made its Google Pack officially available for the UK, saving us having to download the .com flavour. Containing such freeware as Adobe Reader, Picasa, Google Screensaver and Firefox, it's a 'a free collection of essential software'. ...more

Yahoo! offers unlimited storage for email

Yahoo! says it will offer unlimited e-mail storage to its quarter of a billion users, starting in May. The world's biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1GB, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail. Microsoft has a 2GB free e-mail storage limit, while Google allocates 2. ...more

Apple stock recovers in results week

In the week that Apple will announce its latest set of quarterly results, the company's stock price rose to its pre-11 September level, closing at $18.01 per share on Friday. Despite the current downturn in the computer market and fears that the events of 11 September may precipitate an economic recession, shares in the leading PC manufacturers have returned to or exceeded the level they were at before the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. ...more

Critical security vulnerability found in Skype

A highly critical security vulnerability has been discovered in various flavours of the Skype IP telephony software. A boundary error exists when handling Skype-specific URI types such as 'callto://' and 'skype://'. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution when the user clicks on a specially-crafted Skype-specific URL. ...more