Apple keeps up the fight for the iPod brand

Apple is continuing to pursue companies that it believes are diluting the iPod brand, having already forced one company to rename its range of stands for the portable music players. UK company iPod:Essentials is the latest outfit to be targeted and is now in the process of renaming itself mp3Essentials following a warning from Apple that it was in breach of the iPod trademark. It is also handing over its ipodessentials. ...more

26-05-2001 Essential news of the week

Brought neatly together and presented on a plate, here is a roundup of some of the week's main news stories from the world of IT. Iomega launches 20GB portable FBI nets Internet fraudsters Mobilexpo 2001 highlight - Trium Eclipse Mobilexpo 2001 Hacker site winds down AMD signs up NEC for new processors IBM breakthrough for disk drive design All new Macs to have OS X Compaq evolves new business range Low power Pentiums draw less than 1 Watt VeriSign keeps hold of .com Don't forget, we welcome your comments. ...more

Channel 4 finds Lost online

The new series of Lost and Desperate Housewives feature in the launch of a Channel 4 video-on-demand (VOD) service. The shows will now be streamed from the Channel 4 website (www.channel4. ...more

Intel extends 64 bit Xeon to the storage arena

Intel has introduced a version of the Xeon server processor with Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) aimed at increasing throughput from larger servers. In particular, the new chip will remove the 4Gbyte memory addressing which is far short of today's storage applications. Aimed at the storage server market, the new Xeon 2. ...more

New Windows vulnerabilities rounded up in Microsoft's February security update

A slew of bulletins has been released by Microsoft in its February security update. There are twelve updates this month - ranging from a vulnerability in SharePoint Services, which could allow cross-site scripting, to a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer - and they span Windows and Office Systems. We'll begin with the Windows bulletins deemed 'critical', which mainly involve vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to execute code on a Windows machine. ...more