The OpenOffice.org community has released a beta of version 3.0 of the cross-platform office suite, scheduled for release next September. A native version for Intel Macs is planned, with better integration into the Aqua interface than the previous X11 ports.
Soon, you could be able to authenticate yourself simply by touching a doorknob - yet neither your fingerprints nor the vein pattern in your hand will be scanned. Instead, the doorknob will read a signal sent by a special transmitter
Websense Security Labs have reported a sophisticated targeted phishing - called whaling - attack on named CEOs of large corporations. The email is a quite convincing "subpoena", supposedly from a district court in San Diego, California. Numerous recipients have been
Dive into the melee. Deploy superior firepower. EndureGrand Theft Auto IV may have soaked up 90 per cent of gaming headlines for the past few weeks, but classic first-person shoot-'em-up Doom is set to make a comeback. Version 4 is
Uncrippling the iPodYou don't need Steve Jobs' permission to watch TV on your iPhone any more. And you don't need to pay the cable company twice. A native Orb client for the iPhone and iPod Touch popped up on the
Ready for LinuxFed up of waiting for Asus' desktop Eee PC? Rival Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has stepped in with a mini machine of its own, which it's punting at just £235....
And buyers to be refundedCreative has told buyers of its ALchemy for Audigy sound software that they'll get their money back following its decision to release the next version of the app free of charge....
Unprecedented Ofcom smackdownITV must pay £5.67m in fines for misleading viewers using its premium rate phonelines - the largest fine regulator Ofcom has ever imposed....
Blind justice meted out to presentational-aid yob trioIt now appears that laser-pointer pilot dazzle attacks have joined the hilarious satnav-inspired motoring blunder as a staple of news kibble, with the global presentational-aid-related airborne blinding epidemic now devastating the skies above
New York-based company FullView has filed a complaint against Microsoft at the Federal District Court for Northern California over a potential patent infringement. The subject of the complaint is Microsoft's RoundTable camera that sells for more than €2,000 as part
The Indian media are reporting sustained internet-based attacks from China against Indian networks. These attacks, they say, are not just isolated incidents and are sophisticated and broad in scope. Government officials have confirmed off the record that the cyber warfare
T-Mobile has rolled out its first UMTS/HSDPA network in the United States. The company announced that T-Mobile USA customers in New York were now able to transfer data four times faster than was previously the case. Users with suitable mobile
Twenty-five per cent of all European users should have the opportunity to use IPv6 by the end of 2010, and should be able to access most of their normal services and content with it. The EU Commission will set this
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre , which is responsible for coordinating internet resources within Europe, has explained the cause of the YouTube online video service blackout last February. According to Daniel Karrenberg, head of research at RIPE NCC and colleagues
Once beaten, twice finedOperators of the once-popular TorrentSpy tracker have been ordered to pay more than $110m to Hollywood for facilitating illegal downloads of movies and television shows....
Will do for pole-dancing what Guitar Hero did for rock'n'rollThe Wii's all-white, but it's hardly a raunchy unit. So, if you've been looking for ways to sex-up your console, then how about a private pole dance?...
Bell Labs tolls for theeMorgan Sparks, inventor of the first "practical" transistor and one of the reasons your cell phone doesn't use vacuum tubes, died this week at the age of 91....
