Ian Betteridge

Apple has taken steps to take ownership of the iTunes.co.uk domain name from its current owner, with the company formally complaining to Nominet, the UK domain name registrar, that it is entitled to the domain. According to a report on The Register, Apple has been attempting to claim the domain from its current owner, Benjamin […]

A highly critical vulnerability in Sun Microsystems Inc.s Java plug-in has been discovered by a Finnish security consultant. The vulnerability could potentially allow a Web page to turn off Javas security feature and execute malicious code on a compromised machine. The vulnerability affects JRE (Java Runtime Environment) Versions 1.4.2_05 and prior, Versions 1.4.1 and 1.4.0, […]

One of the busiest days of the year for British Mac users saw the opening of the largest Mac-focused show of the year, as well as the official launch of the first Apple Computer Inc.-owned retail store in Europe. Mac users waited in queues to get a glimpse of the latest Apple products on the […]

The French Competition Council has rejected a claim that Apple Computer Inc.s refusal to license its FairPlay DRM (digital rights management) system is an anti-competitive act. FairPlay is the only system of copy protection support supported by the iPod, which accounts for more than 87 percent of all hard drive-based digital music players sold. The […]

News that British Telecom is buying Infonet Services Corp. in a deal worth some $965 million is raising eyebrows around the industry. The deal, BTs first foray into major acquisitions in many years, looks set to shake up the market for global communications at a time when it seemed that it had entered something akin […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.s settlement of two of its major antitrust law suits, the European Union is set to press ahead with its own cases against the software giant. Although both Novell Inc. and the Computer & Communications Industry Association agreed Monday to withdraw their support for the EU action, it appears that the EU will […]

As one developer prepares to move his application from Mac to Windows, others reaffirm their commitment to the platform—despite competing directly with Apple Computer Inc. Arlo Rose, creator of Konfabulator, the “widget engine” that allows third parties to create small applications that sit in their own translucent layer on screen, is set to release the […]

At a special music event expected to see the launch of the U2 iPod held Tuesday, Apple sprang a surprise by also releasing the rumored iPod Photo, a version of the music player capable of storing and showing photos. The iPod Photo, which is available immediately, comes in 40GB and 60GB versions and looks identical […]

Analyst company Merrill Lynch has predicted that Apple will launch two new iPods by the first half of 2005, including the first to be based on flash memory instead of on a small hard drive. The report, titled “What to Expect from Future iPods” and written by Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich, claims that the […]

A malicious script for Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X has been discovered that is capable of harvesting passwords and installing remote control software and security backdoors onto a users machine. Renepo, which Symantec Corp. has classified as MacOS.Renepo.B and Mac user groups are calling Opener, is a Unix shell script that attempts to turn […]