PDA market in downward spiral reports IDC

palmOne is at the head of a downward spiral of the PDA market according to research group IDC. IDC's figures showed a 8.7 per cent slump year on year for the third quarter of 2004 - the third successive quarter of year on year decline. ...more

Yahoo!, Cisco to promote DomainKeys as a standard

Cisco and Yahoo have submitted their anti-spam technology DomainKeys to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval as a standard. DomainKeys technology was developed by Yahoo! and is based on the concept of authentication between mail servers. Owners of mail servers transmit encrypted 'public' and 'private' key that identifies them to each other. ...more

Napster claims half a million subscribers

The former bad boy of peer to peer networking, Napster says that it has doubled the number of subscribers to its legal service in the past 12 months. The total number of subscribers now stands at over half a million. The company says that it also has some 50,000 college students in the US who receive a 'free' service as part of their tuition fees. ...more

UK claims new silicon speed record

British scientists are claiming a new world record for the fastest silicon chip on record. By adding fluorine to a simple silicon bipolar transistor, commonly used in mobile phones and other wireless systems, researchers at the University of Southampton claim to have made the transistor run at up to 110GHz. The research team came up with a simple tweak to the chemistry of the standard silicon chip which allows it to perform many times faster. ...more

Security vendors face Microsoft tipping point

Microsoft's announcement last week that it is to include its antivirus engine free within its upcoming Antigen product may mark a turning point in the security industry. Since Microsoft has been consistently in the spotlight over security issues with its products, it has thrown a lot of muscle behind wrestling the problem. So much so, that it is fast becoming the antivirus industry that is the first point of attack for virus writers. ...more