MS introduces @hotmail.co.uk accounts

British users of Hotmail accounts now have a better chance to get that email address they always wanted. Microsoft is introducing the @hotmail.co. ...more

AOL buys $22 million of Google shares - worth up to $1.2 billion

Time Warner might be looking a bit more kindly upon its AOL subsidiary today. The company has just exercised its options to buy 7.4 million Google shares, or three per cent of the company, for $22 million. ...more

FileMaker 8 Pro goes native for PDF and Excel authoring

FileMaker has unveiled a new version of its eponymous database application for Mac OSX and Windows. Key components of FileMaker 8 Pro include native PDF and Excel authoring. Also available is FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced (an upgrade to the product previously known as FileMaker Developer) while the Server, Server Advanced and Mobile incarnations will be released later this year. ...more

VIRUS: password-pocketing Trojan in the wild

Eyeveg-A is a network worm with a Trojan component and an eye for your cached passwords. The new virus is already in the wild, according to antivirus experts Sophos. It attempts to gather any cached passwords and other system information and send them off to a remote location. ...more

Oracle announces first database for Linux clusters

Another day at Oracle OpenWorld, another product announcement. Oracle claims its Oracle8i Parallel Server is the first clustered database server for the Linux OS. Targeted at e-businesses coping with an "always on" Internet environment, Oracle8i Parallel Server on Linux will support up to a 4-node, 8-way cluster. ...more