Centrino officially emerges

Today Intel officially unveils its much trailed Centrino technology, a ground-up redesign of its mobile processor technology As well as wireless networking, the new technology is designed to extend battery life for notebooks and support thinner and lighter notebooks. To read PC Pro reviews of Centrino-based machines from Toshiba and Acer, click here: Toshiba Tecra M1 - 1.6GHz Pentium-M Notebook Acer TravelMate 800 - 1. ...more

Camino man moves to Firefox to boost Mac progress

The Mozilla Foundation has appointed a developer to work on improving the Mac version of Firefox, with spin-offs for the OS X-only Camino browser. Currently Firefox on a Mac comees a poor second against the likes of Safari, suffering from a poor interface and is much slower than either the Windows version or Safari. Josh Aas will focus on code that the two browsers share and on Firefox-specific OS X code. ...more

A message to the vulnerable: patch!

Microsoft issues a critical warning for Outlook Express holes A buffer over-run vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's Outlook Express versions 5.5 and 6. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to run any code on the victim's machine restricted only by the privileges of the victim. ...more

Thunderbird 0.2 released

Mozilla.org has released the latest milestone version of Thunderbird, its standalone email client. Although it's very much a 'pre-alpha' release, Mozilla says it is 'very usable' and claims that, for Windows users, could cut down on the risk of machines being infected by viruses and the like. ...more

Napster sues for copyright

Controversial MP3 service Napster has taken out a copyright suit, against a site selling Napster merchandise. Napsterstore.com has T-shirts and hats with the Napster logo and, ironically, slogans supporting Napster in its fight against the record companies over copyright issues. ...more