Mozilla seeks Web designer

The Mozilla Organisation is seeking a designer or designers to create a new logo and website for its upcoming Mozillion campaign. The campaign will attempt to raise $1mn via online contributions to help ensure that the organisation - responsible for the Mozilla, Firefox and Camino browsers, the Thunderbird email client and several other projects - can continue. Designers who are willing to work for nothing but the kudos can apply by creating a mock site comprising a home page and one internal page. ...more

Ebookers takes on First Resort for package holidays

Popular travel site Ebookers.com has said it will team up with The First Resort to provide package holidays on the site. The First Resort is one of many cheap and cheerful holiday sites that offers all-in deals to beach resorts as well as city breaks. ...more

Four new security threats in the wild

Sophos is reporting yet more variants of the Sober, Bagle and NetSky viruses, as well as Lovegate worms - all of which are already infecting Internet users. Sober-E is the most profligate of the weekend's virus haul, according to the UK security company. The mass-mailing worm uses short texts in the message, subject and attachment filenames. ...more

Toshiba announces portable charger for mobile devices

Toshiba is unveiling a new fuel cell that charges mobile devices, such as phones and PDAs, without needing a mains electricity supply. The Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) For Power On The Move builds on technology that Toshiba has already developed for charging laptops, but has reduced the size of some components to make it more suitable for use with handheld devices. The new DMFC provides an average output of 1W per hour for around 20 hours on a single 25cc fuel cell. ...more

Friends Reunited geared for telly debut

ITV is turning the Friends Reunited website that it bought last year into a TV show. For television, the site will be turned into a show called The School Run, where old schoolmates will be reunited to compete in a trivia quiz. It will be shown on the new ITV Play channel, a Freeview channel that will be broadcast on the Internet from next month, and later on cable and satellite. ...more