Flash memory iPod rumours surface again

Rumours that Apple is preparing to enter the market for MP3 players using flash memory have surfaced again. AppleInsider reports that Yasuo Morimoto, senior executive vice-president at Toshiba, told the China Daily that Toshiba will begin selling flash memory to Apple in early 2005. Introducing a flash-based iPod - 'iPod micro' perhaps - would enable Apple to compete for a share of a market that is five times as big as the hard-drive market by unit sales and double its size by revenue. ...more

Yahoo! tackles spam with DomainKeys

After a year or so of debate Yahoo! has finally decided to tackling the problems of spam and phishing by pressing ahead with the DomainKeys on its Yahoo! Mail. The DomainKeys technology developed by Yahoo! on the principle of encryption of authentication between mail servers. Owners of mail servers transmit 'public' and 'private' key that identifies them. ...more

Blu-ray.com: 'AACS has failed'

A leading advocate of the Blu-ray high-definition optical disc format has strongly criticised the organisation responsible for the AACS technology designed to prevent unauthorised copying of both Blu-ray discs and those encoded in the rival HD DVD format. 'Josh', who runs the Blu-ray.com website, said that the decision by the AACS LA [Advanced Access Content System Licensing Authority] to send 'cease and desist' letters to websites that posted or linked to an encryption key for HD DVD discs has been entirely counter-productive. ...more

Sun unveils Sun ONE Instant Messaging 6.0

Instant messaging for enterprises, courtesy of Sun Microsystems. As well as chat and conferences, the enterprise-scale software supports the use of alerts, news, polls and file transfers. New features in version 6. ...more

Linspire updates laptop-friendly Linux system

Linspire has announced version 5.0 of its Linux operating system. Like the latest batch of releases, 5. ...more