Patch Tuesday to be free of critical Windows updates

Microsoft has released preliminary details of next Tuesday's security bulletin. On 12 September, the company will release two bulletins for Windows, the most severe of which is rated as Important, one level below the maximum Critical rating. Microsoft says systems will need to be rebooted for the updates to take effect. ...more

Canon releases USB 2.0 scanner

Canon has released the CanoScan D1250U2 1,200x2,400dpi scanner with fast USB 2.0 connectivity. USB 2. ...more

Richard M. Stallman: GNU's not Linux

SCO's contract dispute with IBM has been accompanied by a smear campaign against the whole GNU/Linux system. But SCO made an obvious mistake when it erroneously quoted me as saying that "Linux is a copy of Unix." Many readers immediately smelled a rat--not only because I did not say that, and not only because the person who said it was talking about published ideas (which are uncopyrightable) rather than code, but because they know I would never compare Linux with Unix. ...more

Keeping the Web stats sane

One for the Webmasters - Sane Solutions has updated its NetTracker software, which tracks and analyses Web site usage. Version 5.0 of the browser-based program is claimed to be of industrial strength, its scalability coping with high traffic e-commerce sites. ...more

City of Bath to host wireless experiment

The City of Bath, more famous for its Roman Spa and Jane Austen than the cutting edge of the information society, is to host a series of experiments to test new city-wide services based on wireless technology. The University of Bath is to conduct a research project which will see the historic city offer a range of technologies that could affect the direction of future wireless applications. Costing $1. ...more