Western Digital unveils 80Gb of external storage

Got around ?350 and the need for simply bags of external storage? Then Western Digital's 80Gb external drive could be what you need. The 7,200rpm drive is three times faster than previous external models, benefiting from a new UDMA 66 1394 bridge card. It's FireWire compatible, which is good for Mac-owners, and there's the PCI adaptor card for desktops and a CardBus PC Card for notebooks. ...more

Boo.com comes back from the dead

Doomed fashion site Boo.com may be making a comeback, just before Halloween. The site, which came to grief in June this year, was bought by US clothes portal Fashionmall. ...more

Storm worm variant blows against blogs and forums

The Storm worm has returned in a new guise. The worm, which managed to cause a global virus outbreak earlier in the year is now targeting users who blog or post to forums. The new variant is propagating itself via links from blogs and forum posts directing users to a malicious website that downloads code onto a user's machine which compromises the computer and turns it into part of a botnet. ...more

Record industry renews assault on filesharers

The US record industry has launched yet another attack in its offensive against serial file shares. The Recording Industry Association has begun another 765 John Doe lawsuits in an attempt to further reduce the number of files available on peer-to-peer networks. The John Doe suits are the first step in the legal process and enable RIAA lawyers to subpoena ISPs for the names and addresses of individual file sharers, based on their IP addresses and dates and times online. ...more

Apple brokers deal to make three quarters of US cars iPod-ready

Apple has announced it has teamed up with Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Mazda to deliver iPod integration with the stereo systems in the majority of their car models. As a result, more than 70 per cent of 2007-model cars in the US will now have iPod integration options. Ford and General Motors will feature iPod integration in the majority of their 2007 models in the US beginning later this year, while Mazda's entire global 2007 lineup of cars and SUVs will offer iPod connectivity. ...more