Jef Raskin, the man behind the development of the Macintosh computer and "drag n' drop" has died peacefully, aged 61, from pancreatic cancer. Details of his death - and life - were released on the web in Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh computer, dies at 61. He worked for Apple ...

 

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A planned update to the Google AdWords/AdSense publishing system did not apparently go to plan, with the AdSense arm of the publishing giant offline an extra 4 hours than expected. It was reported that Google would be updating it's AdWords interface, as reported at SEW in Google Changing AdWords Interface. ...

 

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Trendmicro has become the third security vendor to be warned by Internet Security Systems that its code could execute malicious programs, rather than remove them. As reported in Take three: Antivirus apps could spread infection, this follows on earlier discoveries that Symantec and F-Secure software was also vulernable to ...

 

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In a move expected to accelerate the development of PHP, IBM will now be putting its corporate wight behind the open source programming language. In an statement expected later today, IBM will announce that they've teamed up with Zend Technologies to create a bundle called ZendCore, which will support IBM's ...

 

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The Mozilla Foundation have released Firefox 1.0.1. As reported by CNet in Mozilla releases Firefox security update, this is especially to fix: a vulnerability in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), a standard for handling special character sets in domain names that could let an attacker spoof Web sites on non-Microsoft ...

 

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Secunia has issued a moderately critical security advisory on popular database managment tool phpmyadmin. The advisory phpMyAdmin Local File Inclusion and Cross-Site Scripting warns that the most serious flaws could lead to arbitrary program execution if PHP safe mode is off and external transformations are activated. Users of phpmyadmin are advised ...

 

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Chief executive Kevin Rollins has denied speculation that Dell will be offering PC's based on the AMD chipset anytime soon. Intel has suffered various problems over the last year, including delays, cancellations, and recall of products after design and manufacturing glitches. Added to this is the fact that AMD is now ...

 

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The UK government has launched a new security service intended to allow wide access of security alerts for the UK general public. IT Security Awareness for Everyone declares that ITsafe will provide: 1. A website that gives advice on keeping your computer safe, including a glossary in plain ...

 

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A new exploit has been found on the phpbb 2.x software, which has been rated as "moderately critical". As reported in the Secunia security advisory phpBB Avatar Functions Information Disclosure and Deletion: The vulnerabilities are caused due to some unspecified errors in the avatar handling functions and may be exploited to ...

 

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A range of organisatons aiming to represent the SEO industry are currently in the process of becoming official bodies. SMA-UK - the Search Marketing Association of the United Kingdom, set up by industry names such as Mike Grehan, Barry Lloyd, and Ammon Johns, has announced in SMA-UK countdown to ...

 

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A Rackspace representative today confirmed that a prior reported issue of Yahoo! being unable to index sites on certain Rackspace servers had now been resolved. The problem was first reported in Rackspace hates Yahoo? Or Vice Versa? in which it was discovered that Yahoo! spiders were unable to index sites ...

 

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Red Hat have acknowledged that in its push for mainstream markets, it has likely left behind crucial developer support - an issue it is now trying to correct. Its problems center specifically on the restrictive development of the Fedora core for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and how developers were left ...

 

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The date for the liberalisation of the postal market has been brought forward to 1st January 2006. This is 15 months earlier than expected, and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) is especially concerned that the earlier date will force the Royal Mail to rush to cut jobs to increase apparent efficiency. After ...

 

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According to the Forum of Private Business (FPB), the UK government still owes around 40 companies ��40 million in unpaid bills from the foot and mouth clean up four years ago. However, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has claimed that all bills are paid, and that ...

 

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Jelsoft have released an updated version of their popular vBulletin 3 software, after a security flaw was discovered in the settings. The security risk is only an issue on a somewhat obscure setting is used in versions prior to 3.0.7, which most users are likely to have disabled by default anyway. This ...

 

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The Halifax has reported that, for the first time ever, the average house price has broken through ��100,000 across every single UK county. In Houses 'breach ��100,000 UK-wide', the BBC picks up the report and details some of the fastest growing pirce areas - all of which now lie outside ...

 

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Apple are facing legal action in the USA after vendors claimed that old computers are being supplied as new, and that warranty periods were being tracked from time of shipping, rather than time of purchase. Reported by the Register in Customers, resellers bite Apple back, it details that the action ...

 

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The UK broadband market is growing strong, and the next move involves taking broadband customers from 1-2 MBps, to 8 MBps (Mega Bits per second). However, there are increasing signs that rather than price on the speed on the connection, ISP's are more likely to charge according to how much material ...

 

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IBM has earmarked $100 million to fund a variety of technical, research and marketing initiatives to boost Linux use. The initiative's are especially intended to help increase use of its open source Workplace software. In 2001 IBM invested $300m into a 3-year Linux program, which included producing Linux versions of most of ...

 

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Google launched it's third incarnation of its popular Google Toolbar, and although it's loaded with new features, it's raised a number of eyebrows - and even concerns - around the internet. The features are concisely listed on Google's toolbar features page - while in A New Version (Beta) ...

 

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