Fast launches mobile search tool

Norwegian search developer Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has come up with what it claims is the world's first search product for mobile devices. FAST says that mSearch will offer commonly searched for mobile content such as music, games, ring tones, and images as well as content from the mobile Web, providing users with more relevant personal search for their mobile devices such as localised search. Ali I. ...more

OS X is world's most secure operating system, report concludes

Mac OS X and BSD Unix have been named as the world's safest and most secure online computing environments after a year-long study by enterprise security specialists mi2g. In what is describes as 'the most comprehensive study ever undertaken', mi2g's Intelligence Unit analysed over 235,000 security breaches against permanently online systems and found that Mac OS X or BSD (on which OS X is partly based) accounted for just 4.82 per cent of all successful attacks. ...more

Mozilla 1.5 goes beta

The Mozilla organisation has released a beta version of its eponymous Web browser, email client and IRC chat software. The accompanying release notes for both this version and the previous alpha version detail the changes, most of which concern the email and chat components, though users will be pleased to note that, 'Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and Web compatibility'. Needless to say, Mozilla was already one of the fastest and most standard-compliant browsers. ...more

Lenovo and Apple top reliability poll

Brand name laptops win reliability survey but Dell and Gateway have cause for concernA study of over 20,000 support calls has shown that Apple and Lenovo make the most reliable laptops. Computer support agency Rescuecom studied the call data from its centres and cross referenced it against the market share of brands in different US locations. The results on a weighted index showed Lenovo the winner at +243, Apple at +201 then HP at +12, Dell at +4 and Gateway at -12. ...more

Windows Vista goes Home

Five years in the making, the much-delayed Windows Vista and Office 2007 for consumers has arrived. A series of global events has been lead by Bill Gates speaking in London, at the British Library, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a New York City Best Buy store. Business versions of the operating system and productivity software were released in November. ...more