Londoners Whoosh Up to 24mbps
After years of lagging behind mainland Europe, it looks like super-fast broadband might finally be making it to Britain's shores. Local loop unbundling has already offered 8mbps speeds - and now one operator is going three times faster as it pilots a 24mbps scheme. Be has launched its pilot project... Read on »
Google Earth Angers South Koreans
South Korea is the latest country to raise its concerns over Google's satellite photo service, Google Earth. The country is worried about sensitive sites being visible from space by the service's users, including the presidential Blue House and military bases, as it remains officially at war with its neighbour, North... Read on »
iTunes on the Move
A cellphone which incorporates Apple's iTunes music player software is finally set to be launched after repeated delays. The device, made by Motorola, is expected to be unveiled next week, although both those firms and Cingular, whose network the phone will work on, declined to comment. Roger Entner, a research... Read on »
Mozilla Adds For-Profit Wing
The Mozilla Foundation is branching out. It has created a for-profit subsidiary which aims to pursue an even wider userbase for the... Read on »
RealNetworks Boosts Profits
RealNetworks brought in $4.7m in the second quarter of the year, the streaming giant said yesterday - meaning the company is on... Read on »
Exclusive: Fresh Javascript Browser Exploit
Hot on the heels of an exploit which allowed Javascript popups to appear in front of another site, Neowin has learned of another, potentially more dangerous, use for the script. The latest problem, reported to us by Neowin user flanderssoft, centres around the ability to refresh a page other than... Read on »
.xxx given green light
ICann has given the go-ahead to plans for what has been described as a "virtual red-light district", with the creation of a .xxx TLD. Negotiations are to begin with ICM Registry Inc, which will run the domain. It is headed up by a British businessman, Stuart Lawley. It was suggested... Read on »
DNS creator honoured
The man behind the Domain Name System has been awarded for his work. Paul Mockapetris is widely credited with coming up with DNS, 22 years ago. The chief scientist with net address firm Nominum was given a lifetime award by ACM Sigcomm, which recognises outstanding computer communications achievements. Dr Mockapetris... Read on »
Mac Mini clone unveiled - lawsuits ahoy!
It had to happen. The first Mac Mini clones running Windows have been unveiled at Computex. Taiwanese manufacturer Aopen has unveiled its "Pandora" project, which looks surprisingly like the highly-successful Apple project. It's due to be launched on the market in September at a planned price of under $600. Sources... Read on »
Google's "Summer of Code"
Google has launched a bid to attract more students to the open-source software world by offering a cash award to those who complete a project by the end of the summer. The "Summer of Code" project sees the search giant team up with a number of open-source foundations and offer... Read on »
Bagle's back
Another new version of Bagle has begun spreading over the internet like wildfire. So far, eight new variants of the virus have been reported - all work in similar ways but have some slight variations. F-Secure warns that a number of them were spammed out for the first time yesterday.... Read on »
Revenge of the Phishers
Never ones to miss out on the opportunity to hijack some popular culture to spread their evil wares, virus makers have been attacking IM services with a worm and phishing scam around the new Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith. AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger users have reportedly... Read on »
Just 216.239.37.99 It
Google died at the weekend. Well, google.com did anyway, as did co.uk, .fr, and seemingly all the other regional variants of the world's most popular search engine. As Neowin reported at the time, the site was down for less than an hour for most users - but responses posted here... Read on »
Security Fears Over Google Accelerator
A new tool released by Google to speed up web surfing has been hit by privacy concerns. It emerged that users visiting sites where they can log in - including Neowin - are being logged in as other users of the service. Google Web Accelerator is currently in beta and... Read on »
French Ban DRM on DVDs
A French court has ruled that DRM softwre preventing DVDs from being copied is illegal. A court of appeal decided that the use of the software banned owners from making copies of the products they had purchased for private use - and gave film firms a month to remove the... Read on »
Hong Kong Tops Broadband Speed List
Think your 1Mbps connection is speedy? You ain't seen nothing yet. A Hong Kong ISP has unveiled a service which zips along at an impressive 1Gbps - well, for local traffic anyway. Connections outside of the island will be a bit slower than that. The new service is being priced... Read on »
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