Music site Boxman collapses

Online CD retailer Boxman may be going into voluntary liquidation after failing to secure funding to the tune of ?20m. The pan-European music site was one of the first and has been around for a momentous three years - a lifetime in Net terms. But it seems Boxman has been a victim of the tech stock depression. ...more

Price Check: PDAs

The personal digital assistant is coming under fierce pricing pressure in the run up to Christmas. Time to check out what's worth buying to organise your festive tasks. For ?43. ...more

IBM aims to reduce lifetime cost of PC

Computing giant IBM has a new name and a new strategy for capturing market share in the PC business. Currently, the PC inventor's market share languishes in third place behind Dell and Hewlett Packard with less than half their worldwide sales. IBM admits that companies like Dell have been better at selling computers at a lower cost and making it easier to buy and has vowed to catch up in these areas. ...more

NISCC warns of email attacks on 300 key UK systems

The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) issued a report today warning that almost 300 key UK Government departments and major commercial organisations are being targeted by a highly sophisticated wave of email-borne attacks. The NISCC says that while the attacks have been in existence for sometime, lately there appears to have been a significant surge in the numbers of email involved. The attacks take the form of Trojans attached to emails, often with spoofed sender addresses and content designed to either tempt the victim into opening an attachment or visiting a malicious website in order to trigger the installation of malicious code. ...more

Apple updates Java support

Apple has updated the Java software in OS X. This software enables Mac users to develop and run applications and applets written in the Java programming language. The Java 1. ...more