March 12, 2003

Yahoo! Rolls Out New Anti-Spam Features InternetNews.com - Yahoo! announced Tuesday the rollout of strengthened spam-fighting capabilities for its e-mail users, who the company said could see as much as 40 percent less spam. 4:48:23 PM

Swiss to Name Mobile Phone Users After Qaeda Link Reuters - The Swiss parliament banned anonymous pre-paid chips for mobile telephones on Wednesday after intelligence warnings that members of al Qaeda were using them to make calls without being traced. 4:46:03 PM

SCO lawsuit could end in IBM buyout VNUNet -SCO's $1bn lawsuit against IBM over its use of the SCO-licensed Unix™ code could be an attempt by SCO to get IBM to buy it out, according to analyst Ovum. 4:43:43 PM

Sun rises in NT education News Interactive - THE temperature is rising between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft in the battle for the hearts and minds of desktop software users. 4:41:22 PM

MSN Messenger 5.0 adds camera, action InfoWorld - Microsoft has added webcam functionality to its MSN Messenger 5.0 client, allowing users to stream and view live video via instant messages. 4:40:13 PM

Latest CodeRed variant lacks built in obsolescence The Register - Eighteen months after Code Red wormed its way through insecure Microsoft IIS Web Servers, yet another variant has found its way onto the Internet. 4:33:23 PM

World's first brain prosthesis revealed New Scientist - The world's first brain prosthesis - an artificial hippocampus - is about to be tested in California. Unlike devices like cochlear implants, which merely stimulate brain activity, this silicon chip implant will perform the same processes 4:33:23 PM

Passive smoke 'ruins child teeth' BBC - Children growing up in a house filled with cigarette smoke are likely to need more visits to the dentist, say researchers. 4:33:22 PM