PalmSource sends defiant message to Microsoft

Today in London, PalmSource - the company behind the Palm operating system - took advantage of the release of Palm OS 5 (use link to other story) to unveil its vision for the PDA. If PalmSource is right, within ten years Microsoft's Pocket PC may be a dim, distant memory, with the market flooded by a huge variety of devices based on the Palm OS. Talking about the way the computing market moved from mainframes to personal computers, David Nagel, CEO of PalmSource, said, 'We think there may be another transition. ...more

UK games chart: No new tricks needed for FIFA Street

There's a new entry in the top three in this week's ELSPA UK games chart. EA's FIFA Street football continues to lead the way ahead of Sony's Gran Turismo, but Ubi Soft's multi-format action game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory jumps straight in below them. The main climber this week - up fourteen places to number seven - is The Punisher, THQ's action game based on the Marvel comic book of the same name. ...more

CinemaNow joins the download-to-DVD rush

CinemaNow has launched download-to-DVD movies, following Movielink which announced a similar service earlier this week. The new service lets CinemaNow's US customers download copy protected (DRM-restricted) movies and other video content and burn it to DVD for playback in a standard DVD player. At launch, content will be available from Buena Vista, Lionsgate, MGM, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, EagleVision and Sundance Channel. ...more

P2P networks to work to weed out pornography

Peer to Peer network operators are to work with law enforcement agencies to target paedophiles swapping child pornography on their networks. The move comes as the US congress is becoming increasingly concerned that P2P networks are become more a popular method of spreading such material. Peer to Peer network operators are to work with law enforcement agencies to target paedophiles swapping child pornography on their networks. ...more

Sendmail suffers security hole

A flaw has been discovered in the open source Sendmail Server software, the most commonly used mail transfer agent (MTA) on the Internet, commonly employed by large organisations to route and deliver email. Sendmail.org has already issued an update, in the form of Sendmail 8. ...more