SurfControl warns of IE7 phishing campaign

SurfControl is warning of a phishing campaign capitalising on the launch of Internet Explorer 7 to dupe people into visiting a site that tries to download Trojan code. The message appears to originate from support@microsoft.com and urges recipients to visit a site in order to download Release Candidate 1 of IE 7. ...more

Formac announces designer combo

Formac has unveiled the latest additions to its Designer range of drives, a combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM - similar to that which has proved overwhelmingly successful in Apple's new iBook - and a high-speed CD-RW. Both drives incorporate Formac's proprietary BURN-Proof technology, which controls the flow of data into the unit to prevent the "buffer under run" errors that can lead to many a CD ending up as a coffee cup coaster. It also enables CDs to be burned in the background. ...more

Google snaps up Picasa

Search engine Google has bought up Picasa, a company which sells some highly rated digital photo management software. 'Picasa enables users to easily manage and share digital photographs, and its technologies complement Google's' said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice president of Product Management. Founded in 2001, Picasa already has a relationship with Google's Blogger service to make publishing digital photos easier. ...more

Toshiba brings PCs under the control of mobile phones

Japanese giant Toshiba is staking a claim to the world's first mobile phone software that will allow the remote control of a PC. Dubbed the Ubiquitous Viewer, the program can connect a user to any Windows-based computer and run applications, and add, edit and delete files. It also gives access to email, browser and other resources on the target PC in real time. ...more

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