UPDATED: Bluetooth flaw found in laptops

Toshiba has released a fix for the Bluetooth flaw discovered by the Trifinite group. The fixed version of the Bluetooth stack is now available from the company's website. Bluetooth security research group Trifinite has released details of a flaw in the Toshiba stack used in the Bluetooth kit installed in laptops from Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Asus and others. ...more

HP backs Open Source with research technology

HP has thrown its weight behind the Open Source movement, making an important part of its R&D available to the world of collaborative development. Emerging from its Cooltown research project, Coolbase will support the building of e-services, whether for embedded or personal systems, as part of HP's vision for pervasive computing. "Cooltown" is a place where, in HP's words, "e-services meet the physical world, where humans are mobile, devices and services are federated and context-aware, and everything has a web presence". ...more

Security fixes for Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird

The Mozilla Organisation has implemented fixes foir several outstanding security flaws in three of its products: the Mozilla Internet software suite, the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email client. The security bugs addressed comprise: null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file); lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload document.write; importing false CA certificate leading to error -8182 (perm DoS), especially exploitable by email; and new libpng buffer overflow vulnerabilities. ...more

Worldwide mobile phone shipments increase 16 per cent

The last three months have seen worldwide handset shipments increase more than 16 per cent over the same period in 2002, according to analysts IDC. It is reported - in Worldwide Handset QView - that 107.6 million units were shifted in the first quarter of 2003. ...more

Gartner predicts PC market price war

Gartner is predicting a price war in the PC market, with the launch of Vista doing little to help vendors' bottom lines. Gartner's current figures already display the downwards pressure on pricing. As 2006 draws to a close, the analyst firm expects global shipments to finish up 10. ...more