Domain management goes online

Nominet has brought the business of keeping domains up to date for the 21st century. Domain holders can now update their details via a web interface. From now on, people who register a domain will be sent a letter with a web address and security code. ...more

Broadband support gets airborne

The search for an answer to the last-mile broadband riddle has taken to the skies after a US company moved closer to enabling high-speed connections via unmanned solar-powered aeroplanes. SkyTower claims to have achieved a world first by successfully testing a commercial telecom application using a relay 65,000 feet in the air. In tests this summer, the solar-powered planes allowed engineers to surf the Web using laptops with a wireless link. ...more

Apple drops TIL, KidSafe

Apple's online services continue to be restructured and the two latest casualties are the Technical Info Library (TIL) and KidSafe, part of the iTools suite. The TIL has now been absorbed into the new "Knowledge Base" system and you would be entitled to think that this would lead to improvements in the way the information is served. However, the general feeling is that the new system is less useful than the old, with up-to-date information harder to come by. ...more

NTL swallows Virgin.net

NTL has acquired the 51 per cent of shares in Virgin.net that it did not own to become the sole owner of the ISP. Best known for its cable broadband and TV, NTL has made no secret of its intentions to expand into the ADSL arena. ...more

iTunes update fixes security flaw

Apple latest iTunes update fixes a potential security vulnerability that could allow a malicious hacker to gain system access. Secunia reports that the vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of .m3u and . ...more