Jonny Evans

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is preparing to grill senior Microsoft executives over the company's steps to create a secure internet.

The U.K.'s WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) is expanding its battery recycling trials with the launch of new retail take-back, community drop-off and postal collection plans for batteries.

Apple Computer Inc. has warned Windows users that a very small number (under 1 per cent) of its latest iPod (with video) models are affected by a virus. Just 25 reports concerning this problem have been received by Apple so far. The problem does not affect data on infected PCs.

Security experts at Sophos PLC are recommending home users should switch to Mac, warning of a huge wave of malevolent Trojan malware attacks.

Apple has announced its newly designed iBook replacement, the MacBook. The MacBook features an Intel Core Duo processor and a 13-inch wide-screen display. The company claims the new Mac to be "up to five times faster than the iBook and up to four times faster than the 12-inch PowerBook."

Apple failed to meet First Amendment requirements in its much-publicized case against journalists in the U.S. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) last week won the right to have hitherto secret court documents filed by the computer company unsealed.These reveal that Apple issued subpoenas forcing two reporters' to disclose anonymous sources without first conducting a thorough investigation inside the company.

Apple technology drives a new fully-autonomous vehicle developed for a major U.S. competition. Team Banzai is one of just 40 teams (selected from 118 entrants) from around North America to have made it through to the semi-finals of the 2005 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge.

Apple technologies drove the winning entrant for the fifth International Dutch Computer Chess Championships. Developed by Shredder Chess, Shredder Macintosh is a Mac OS X version of the company's existing computer chess-playing software, and the win is apparently the first time such software running on a Mac has won such a major event.