Oracle fails to get in the right spirit

It's the season of goodwill to all men, but Oracle doesn't seem to have noticed as it gleefully tries to poke fun at Microsoft's expense... ...more

SoftDVD MAX 6 gives you DVD for ?20

MGI has released the latest version of its software DVD player, with SoftDVD MAX 6, featuring a number of neat extras. MGI Navigator lets you zoom and pan in and around your movie and bookmark favourite sections for later playback. You can also take movie stills as screengrabs and watch a film in either wide-screen or letterbox dimensions. ...more

Spammers hire infected PCs by the hour

The pull of the US dollar is felt strongly in Eastern Europe, where virus writers are minting it by selling airtime on networks of infected computers to spammers - by the hour. MessageLabs' Chief Technology Officer Mark Sunner told us that increasingly close ties between virus writers and spammers is creating a cottage industry. 'Virus writers are now selling airtime on botnet networks,' he said. ...more

Xeon processors clocks past 3GHz milestone

The Xeon - Intel's offering for servers and workstations - has clocked its way past the 3GHz mark. New 3.06GHz and 3GHz versions of the processor are now available. ...more

Flaw found in OS X disk image handler

A vulnerability in disk image handling could compromise the security of a Mac OS X system, Secunia reports. The security firm says that the vulnerability is caused by to an error in com.apple. ...more