Cash-rich startup takes aim at US rivals.

Swedish encryption startup Cryptzone is putting some of the money it has spent the last year raising from investors to good use, announcing an overhaul for its enterprise-friendly crypto suite, Secured eFile.

London trio slowly come back.

Three London hospitals hit by a worm two weeks ago are now almost back online.

This year's fashionable attack strikes again.

TV network CBS has become the latest big name to have it website used to host malware, a security company has reported.

But is size the real issue?

Plextor has launched a new family of tiny external hard drives, one of the smallest designs available in a conventional capacity.

Compliance with DoD guidelines all round.

In 2005, the US government mandated all of its agencies to meet the next-generation Internet protocol requirements for any computing and networking equipment they acquire.

The Linux Foundation formed a Linux IPv6 workgroup, headed by Venkata Jagana, chief architect of networking within IBM's Linux Technology Center, to address this major undertaking and enable Linux-based...

Giving staff mobiles will be cheaper than installing VoIP.

The economic downturn means that businesses will spend less on fixed-line voice budgets, as enterprises look to mobile phones as a cheaper communications alternative, according to telecoms analyst group Analysys Mason.

Police look at whether UK law was broken.

Uk prosecutors are investigating whether BT illegally tested online advertising system Phorm without users' consent.

Chat securely, says Cellcrypt.

UK outfit <a href="http://www.cellcrypt.com/" target="_blank">Cellcrypt</a> has updated its voice-over-IP (VoIP) call security software for mobile phones to support Windows Mobile hardware for the first time.

Botnet 'plan B' fails as Estonians pull plug.

An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the notorious spam-spewing Srizbi botnet, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts.

Chew that, Intel..!

Micron technology is planning a high-end solid-state disk (SSD) drive that could achieve 1GBytes/sec throughput, according to a Micron executive.

Like 'software cocaine', say addicts...

Many used PCs are being purchased because people want to get their hands on a copy of Windows XP, according to industry analysts and hardware suppliers.

Roaming charges face aggressive cap.

European telecommunications ministers gave their backing on Thursday to a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS messages and browsing the Internet using mobile phones while abroad.

No more hide and seek for data.

Embarcadero Technologies is adding visual representations of where data resides and how it has changed, to its ER/Studio data modelling tool, which is scheduled to be released next week.

Spammers regaining control of zombie computers.

Security vendors are warning that the zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life.

YouTube viewers breathe sigh of relief.

Seagate has fixed a bug affecting some Seagate Barracuda hard drives which caused applications to hang.

Pandas eye tasty new machine.

Asustek Computer is to show off the ultimate biodegradable chassis for a laptop when it debuts a machine with a casing made of bamboo, at Taiwan's IT Month exhibition this weekend.

Get out the chocolate tea set...

A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their prodigious ability to infect PCs - many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them.

And 2009 is not looking good either.

The economic downturn has hit sales of mobile phones in the third quarter, with cash strapped users holding onto their handsets for longer, and Gartner is warning that worse is to come.

Secondhand computers failing to find homes

Most used PCs are failing to find a new owner, despite the high worldwide demand for such computers.

Blames small but vocal minority for complaints

Parallels CEO has defended the recent upgrade of his company's Mac virtualisation software and complained that a small but vocal batch of users was responsible for the negative feedback that the product has received. Serguei Beloussov said that Parallels Desktop for Mac 4.0 was a "quality product" and said that negative comments from users had been overblown because the firm didn't edit its support forums.

Wisdom of crowds - network style

Researchers at Chicago's Northwestern University have developed a system that calls on users' experience to provide warnings on Internet traffic problems. The system would give a heads up about slow response times, even where there is no central management system.

Host of benefits in Fedora 10.

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project has released Fedora 10, the latest version of its Linux operating system, with what the company claimed was a wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualisation management, networking, boot time and security.

Host of benefits in Fedora 10.

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project has released Fedora 10, the latest version of its Linux operating system, with what the company claimed was a wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualisation management, networking, boot time and security.

Company looks to get grip on remaining bugs.

Mozilla is to add a third beta to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1. The move will enable the company to get a better handle on remaining bugs and give several new features, including a faster JavaScript engine and a private browsing mode, more testing time, the company's browser director said yesterday.

Screen-display guru bids to boost laptop power.

Pixel Qi, a start-up run by display screen technology developer Mary Lou Jepsen, is looking to make laptop PCs so energy efficient they'll be able to run on a standard laptop battery for 20 to 40 hours before needing a recharge.

Fallout from McColo continues.

Security researchers are locked in dispute about the levels of spam following the shutdown of spam hoster, McColo, two weeks ago.

CA looks to hit new generation of nastiness.

Online attacks will be dominated by smarter malware aimed at users ranging from gamers to the elderly. That's according to IT management software company CA which has released its CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2009.

Look after the Internet root.

Experts and vendors are urging the US government to rapidly deploy security mechanisms at the top level of the DNS hierarchy, which is known as the root zone.

No Christmas party this year.

Cisco is reportedly shutting down during the year-end holiday season to save money, the first time it has done so in its history.

But Sribzi botnet is history, say vendors.

Two weeks after a hosting firm's shutdown saw global spam volumes plummet, some researchers continue to claim that junk mail rates remain dramatically down, while others say spam has already bounced back.

Like a green Ferrari.

Supercomputers from IBM are more energy efficient than supercomputing iron from rival vendors, according to latest research from The Green500.org.

The credit card crunch.

Symantec is warning of a hugely profitable, online underground economy for stolen goods and fraud, where credit card and bank account details are sold and exchanged, following a year-long study.

Web analysis firm repeats warning.

Nemertes Research has once again warned that demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed capacity by 2012.

Web analysis firm repeats warning.

Nemertes Research has once again warned that demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed capacity by 2012.

Thumb drives get blame again.

Department of Defense computers have been hit with an old worm that the DoD won't discuss other than to say it is taking steps to mitigate its effects.

Symantec sees attacks, McAfee shrugs shoulders.

Symantec is warning of a sharp jump in online attacks that appear to be targeting a recently patched bug in Windows, an analysis that rival security companies have disputed.

Produces independent tests.

Networking vendor D-Link has published tests that appear to back up the startling power-saving claims the company has been making for its range of 'green' switches.

But cuts help ease the pain.

The economic downturn has claimed another victim after Dell recorded falls in both profits and revenues, as the PC maker struggles to cope with the IT spending slowdown and less demand for its products.

RIM gets more competition.

Nokia and IBM have reached an agreement that will see Notes appearing on certain Nokia handsets, a move that will give the Finnish handset giant a boost in its battle with Research in Motion's BlackBerry.

Intel pulls out and start-ups merge.

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