Singapore clamps down on unauthorised file sharing

Police in Singapore have arrested three people charged with sharing more than 20,000 files. It is the country's first clampdown on unauthorised sharing. An amendment to the country's Copyright Act has made large scale file sharing a criminal offence; this contrast with the US and Europe where the record industry has only has recourse through civil courts. ...more

Patching Office XP

Microsoft releases the second service pack for the Office XP suite. The extensive package of bug releases is apparently designed to increase performance as well as security. However, while various European, Hebrew and Arabic versions have been made avaiable, the English language update has yet to officially appear. ...more

Microsoft Produces PowerPoint 2003 add-on

Just in time for the launch of Office System - with its six editions, eleven applications and four servers - comes the final release of another Office add-on, Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2003. This is a free add-on for adding audio and video to PowerPoint presentations that can be viewed over the Web via a browser. Although there is integration with Windows Media 9 Series technologies, Microsoft claims there is cross-platform support for Mac and Netscape users. ...more

Microsoft to add Data Protection Server to Windows Server family

Microsoft has announced that it is to add a Data Protection Server to its Windows Server System. The product, which the company has slated to launch in the second half of 2005, is the company's first entry into the disk-based backup and recovery market The product is designed to operate with Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003 and Active Directory and is aimed at companies with between five and 49 servers to manage. Once up and running, Microsoft's disk-based solution will monitor each server that logs all changes made to a disk. ...more

Opera touts its Linux browser as STB champ

Opera has announced that its browser combined with the Linux OS provides an platform for set-top boxes that is a quarter of the price of Microsoft offerings. 'The high price of running Microsoft inside set-top boxes is stopping the iTV market from taking off. Microsoft has avoided the issue of the final product's price in their sales pitch,' says Jon S. ...more