Sony introduces a photo and music library in the pocket

Sony is extending the Vaio range with a new consumer entertainments device. While best known for glossy laptops, it also encompasses desktops and now includes portable media players, in the shape of the Vaio Pocket. Designed to be a music library and portable digital photo store, the Vaio Pocket is built around the 1. ...more

Opera floats to the value of ?11mn

Opera has welcomed the response to its IPO (initial public offering) ahead of the company being listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE). The company sought to issue 12.5 million shares and it claims the IPO was oversubscribed by a factor of twenty. ...more

Worm disguised as iTunes threatens music fans

A new variant of the Opanki worm has emerged that targets music fans by claiming to be Apple's iTunes program. Security company Trend Micro, which issued the alert points out that 'users may be tricked into thinking that this worm is associated with a legitimate product'. The message arrives as an instant messenger chat file with the heading, 'this picture never gets old' and a link to a file called itunes. ...more

British hacker faces US extradition

A British man accused of causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to US military computer systems has been granted bail prior to extradition hearings. Gary McKinnon, 39, an unemployed computer systems administrator from Wood Green in North London was arrested on Tuesday. He appeared in court yesterday following a request by the American authorities that he should be extradited to the United States to face charges of hacking into Pentagon computers. ...more

Intel develops mobile phone chip

The company associated primarily with PC chips is to announce a new chip that contains the circuitry of a PC and a mobile phone. In an attempt to diversify, the new Intel processors feature logic circuits, flash memory and analogue communication circuits on a single piece of silicon, produced by a single manufacturing process. Normally, these types of circuits are produced separately, but now the process has been unified. ...more