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  • Adobe still ripping off EU buyers?

    19 January 2006, 10:51

    A detailed comparison of US and European prices for Adobe's recently-released Production Studio suites shows that the company is still happy to play that maddening old game ROCIE - Rip ...

  • Christopher is looking a bit grey

    17 January 2006, 19:19

    The press are gathered in London Zoo to meet Corel's new icon for CorelDRAWX3, Christopher the Chameleon... but he sadly shuffled off this mortal coil yesterday..

  • Windows Vista MCE

    10 January 2006, 11:55

    We all know that Vista - the next version of the Windows operating system - is coming, and it'll be in several editions, covering everything from the tablet to the ...

  • The Google Pack

    7 January 2006, 15:32

    Google has officially announced at CES a new product which it talked about in its Blog on 1st January. Google Pack is a software package intended to make installation and ...

  • Google Video Marketplace

    7 January 2006, 14:42

    Google is extending its Video download service to include a store where videos can be bought and rented. The service will include video from major networks, sports events, cartoons, educational ...

  • Temporary WMF exploit hotfix available

    2 January 2006, 16:05

    A temporary, unofficial patch for the WMF exploit is available for Windows 2000/XP/x64 users to install to rid themselves of the risk of being rooted by one of what seems ...

  • The future of OS/2 - Open source or not?

    24 December 2005, 11:17

    Yesterday saw IBM cease the sale of the OS/2 Operating system. Come the 31st of December, standard support for the OS will end also. However, a significant number of companies ...

  • Microsoft faces daily EU fines

    23 December 2005, 14:11

    Microsoft had until the 15th December to meet EU demands to provide information on its Windows Operating System that would allow its competitor's group servers to better interoperate with it. ...

  • Review: Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool

    21 December 2005, 09:57

    Check out our preview of the Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (IDHCAT) - a benchmarking program intended to allow system builders and professional reviewers to carry out whole-body testing ...

  • IE7 to adopt Firefox's RSS logo

    19 December 2005, 14:15

    It may only be a small victory, in that only those who know its origins will realise, but the RSS logo first seen in Mozilla's Firefox web browser will be ...

  • Apple Aperture - raw deal, not real deal?

    6 December 2005, 15:26

    In his review on Ars technica, Dave Girard does rather more than just deflate most of Apple's claims for its much-hyped RAW-image-handling program Aperture

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  • Microsoft proud to hand over Vista 'features' early

    30 November 2005, 21:01

    Too bad the OS is late

  • Microsoft targets Sony DRM and other rootkit malware

    14 November 2005, 23:14

    Jason Garms of Microsoft's Anti-Malware Technology Team has outlined how the company adding a detection-and-removal signature to the Windows AntiSpyware beta for the rootkit component of the XCP software used ...

  • Review: Digital You or Digital Poo? McAfee's Mangled Museum Metaphors

    10 November 2005, 00:20

    McAfee's Digital You exhibit at the Science Museum reminded me all too vividly (if drab can indeed inspire vivid) of the numerous inadequate and boring displays that took a wet ...

  • Review: Pinnacle releases second patch for new Studio video editor

    8 November 2005, 16:24

    Last weekend, Pinnacle made available the latest patch for its budget video editing program Studio 10 – the second updater since V10 was launched at the tail end of September

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  • Review: Free RAW-image viewer and thumbnail applet for XP

    1 November 2005, 23:04

    Windows XP has no native support for viewing digital stills in RAW format but there is a free Microsoft Powertoy applet that lets anyone get at RAW files captured from ...

  • It’s not all fun and games y’know – is too!

    30 October 2005, 22:07

    Just got back from the Austin Game Conference. A smallish show by comparison to GDC in San Francisco in March, and about the same size of the last ECTS in ...

  • MS Windows could be pulled from South Korea

    28 October 2005, 18:51

    South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has been investigating Microsoft for the bundling of a media player and instant messenger in the Windows Operating System. If Microsoft are found to be ...

  • Microsoft: Safe and secure

    26 October 2005, 16:30

    A year and a half ago, if we'd said to you that Windows and Internet Explorer were secure, you'd probably have laughed us off the Internet. However, things have come ...

  • DVD Jon works for Michael Robertson

    19 October 2005, 16:00

    21 year old Jon Lech Johansen is embarking on a new project, called 'Oboe', with Michael Robertson.

  • Microsoft outlines new security solutions

    7 October 2005, 10:56

    OS giant Microsoft yesterday announced it was planning to launch a string of security oriented products, targetted at large businesses, as part of a trust building initiative.

  • PSP virus on the loose

    7 October 2005, 00:57

    As our portable devices become almost as capable as our personal computers, they become inreasingly susceptible to viruses and other nasties too. Trojan.PSPBrick is a high damage, but relatively low ...

  • Review: Adobe targets non-techies with V4 Photoshop Elements image editor

    2 October 2005, 19:24

    A wide spread of time-saving features is promised in Photoshop Elements 4.0 - the latest lite version of Adobe's image editing program Photoshop due October

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  • Review: Adobe plays catch up with easier-to-use basic video editor Premiere Elements 2.0

    28 September 2005, 12:18

    V2 of Adobe's basic video editor Premiere Elements is claimed to boost creativity and save time but, in many instance, Adobe has been playing catch-up with the new features added ...

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  • HEXUS.net - The Next Generation

    27 September 2005, 15:31

    No need to adjust your browser, monitor, or Internet connection, you are indeed visiting HEXUS.net. We have updated the site to look slicker, provide more features and be easier to ...

  • WinMX and eDonkey cease operation

    22 September 2005, 00:00

    Two well known P2P file sharing networks look to be gone as of yesterday. The WinMX network and website are not accessible and the New York offices of eDonkey are ...

  • DAZ Studio, free 3D figure posing and animation software

    21 September 2005, 00:00

    DAZ Productions, developer of professional quality 3D software and models, is launching a free 3D animation software package, DAZ Studio. It gives users a virtual studio that intended to should ...

  • Worm spoofs Google

    20 September 2005, 00:00

    The P2Load.A worm redirects users to a fake Google website on an infected machine, delivering hacker-controlled search results to direct a user wherever the hacker pleases.

  • Vista on the cheap

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    The skeptics among you looking toward the launch of Windows Vista will no doubt have something to say about the price of it when it hits the shelves. It turns ...

  • WinFS Beta 1 Released

    30 August 2005, 00:00

    The first beta of Microsoft's new filesystem, WinFS, has been released to developers.

  • Zotob duo arrested

    27 August 2005, 00:00

    The two men believed to be responsible for the Zotob worm that caused havoc in the US recently have been arrested in Turkey and Morocco.

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  • IDF August 2005 :: Universal 3-D Project

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    JPEG has been with us for Years, this project aims to bring a 3D format to mainstream applications

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  • Google Launches Google Talk

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    Google Talk Launched.