Mozilla lines itself up for XForms

Mozilla will be the first mainstream browser to fully-support the new XForms standard for online applications, the Mozilla Foundation has announced. A joint project with IBM and Novell will work to dispel the two principal concerns about the new technology, that it is too complicated for Web authors and difficult for vendors to implement. XForms 1. ...more

ATi thinks media encoding is better in software

Doing MPEG2 encoding in hardware is no longer necessary, according to ATi. Its new app takes advantage of powerful processors to offer this function in software and free up a PCI slot in computers. ATi's software MPEG2 encoder for PCs, the ALL-IN-WONDER Encode, means that the company can combine TV card capabilities on a single AGP graphics card. ...more

Second Lifers hacked

Second life, the virtual online world, has produced a potential headache for its users' first lives. It has emerged that all 650,000 users of the service may have had their personal information compromised by an intruder using a zero day exploit though some unspecified third party software used on the Second Life Servers. The company is recommending that all of its subscribers change their passwords immediately to safeguard their data. ...more

Sasser worm takes the world's PCs by stealth

PC users throughout the world are being warned about the threat of Sasser worms which are spreading rapidly. The fear is that the worm, which appeared over the weekend, may be given fresh impetus as much of the world goes back to work after the May Day holidays. W32/Sasser-D is a network worm which spreads by randomly scanning IP addresses for vulnerable systems. ...more

MusicMatch service hopes to be match for iTunes

Music management software company MusicMatch has launched its MusicMatch Downloads service, which it hopes will enjoy the same success in the PC market that iTunes has with Macs. Already having some 40 million users as a result of MusicMatch software being bundled with a host of digital music players, the company will be hoping that the relatively lenient licensing rules will tempt a good portion of these to sign up. Like Apple's iTunes, MusicMatch Downloads offers single song purchases for 99 cents from tracks offered by all five major and more than 30 independent record labels. ...more