Opera’s browser, version 8.0, is officially out today. According to the blurb Opera 8 is a substantial upgrade from previous versions, and includes new features such as a unique security information field that indicates the trustworthiness of banking and shopping Web sites and voice interaction capabilities. The new version of Opera also introduces an advanced… Read More »
I’ve been a bit skeptical of the danger of mobile phone viruses — at least for the time being — but I had to chuckle at this one. Mikko Hypponen, director research at F-Secure tells in a recent email of giving a presentation on mobile viruses at Interpol’s 6th International Conference on Cyber Crime in… Read More »
Skype is big — today it said its software has been downloaded by 100 million users, and 2.7 million people are online as I type this —- and it’s widely seen as a challenge to the old telephone companies. But could it also topple ICQ and other instant messaging programs? After all, the folk at… Read More »
Not new, but something I hadn’t seen before: Go to an incorrect .museum domain and you are redirected to an index of .museum names. Neat. A plus to having lots of suffixes and small clusters of well-organised websites beneath them.
What’s the etiquette of handing out invitations to Gmail, Google’s (so far) free e-mail service? Do you hand them out willy-nilly, unafraid of offending someone’s coolness by suggesting they’re not hip enough to already have one, or have been offered one, themselves? Do you tentatively send them an e-mail first, checking whether they’re already hooked… Read More »