Apple releases AirPort update

Apple has released an update to its software for Macs connected to AirPort wireless networks. This maintenance update follows the firmware update released earlier this week, and recommended for all customers with French AirPort Extreme base stations or if your AirPort Extreme base station stops responding after being on a busy Ethernet Network. AirPort 3. ...more

Apple scoops half-a-billion dollar profit

Apple narrowly failed to hit the one million mark for laptop sales, despite shifting a record number of Macs in the last financial quarter. Sales of 986,000 MacBooks plus 624,000 desktop Macs underpinned revenues of $4.8 billion and a $546 million profit, increases of 31 per cent and 27 per cent respectively on the same quarter last year. ...more

Russian security company claims new flaw in Windows XP SP 2

A Russian security company claims it has discovered a security hole in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Service Pack two was issued to cover up a multitude of security sins and added new features such as an improved firewall and a technology called Data Execution Protection (DEP). This latter checks code being fed from data pages into the system. ...more

Internet Explorer suffers .HTA critical flaw

There is another security hole in Internet Explorer to be aware of. Reported by one Jeffrey van der Stad, the vulnerability in Internet Explorer is caused by a problem in handling .HTA files (HTML Applications). ...more

Apple's 30th Birthday [part 4] - The prodigal son returns

In July 1997 Steve Jobs, who had returned to the company five months earlier, was appointed interim CEO following the termination of Gil Amelio's stewardship. When kicked out of Apple in 1985, Jobs had formed a new computer company, NeXT. Though never a huge commercial success, it proved popular with programmers - Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, wrote the first Web browser on a NeXT machine, for example. ...more