Laptop display prices in decline

The price of flat panel displays used in laptops is falling and will continue to do so, according to new figures. While notebook sales rallied earlier this year, the price of displays rose sharply, and in May this year were around 55 per cent up on September 2001's low. This added between $90 and $110 to the cost of manufacturing a laptop. ...more

Price check: Keyfob Flash drives

They are the modern day floppy and a boon for those on the move. Keyfob Flash drives are the best way around for swapping data across several computers. And with prices always falling, we thought it was time for a price check. ...more

Cookies crumble and affect IE security

The security company Secunia has highlighted a warning about Internet Explorer: it reports on a 'cross-domain cookie injection' vulnerability, which was discovered by Westpoint. While it may sound dramatic, the threat is not rated as critical. Effectively, a cookie attribute for domain information can be maliciously manipulated. ...more

Demand for UK ICT staff continues to fall

Demand for ICT staff in the UK continued to fall in the last quarter of 2002 with a 40 per cent drop in vacancies. So says the quarterly round up of statistics in the British ICT labour market from e-skills UK organisation. Employment levels in ICT remained flat in the last quarter of 2002, although unemployment among ICT personnel (5. ...more

SCO builds BSD case with GNU/Linux users

SCO has outlined its grievances with BSD code and says it plans to take this up with end users, rather than focus on determining who was responsible for allowing the code to slip into the Linux kernel. During a recent teleconference, CEO Darl McBride touched on other alleged infringement fronts on which SCO's legal firms would be deployed, forcing commercial users to stump up SCO's Unix IP licence. 'We have a situation with other settlement agreements with respect to the BSD case from a few years ago where we do have a legal settlement, we're in strong shape to go out and start enforcing these now and this is really what David [Boies] and his team are going to be expanding their focus around,' he said. ...more