Facebook to add e-mail

Facebook is rolling out a new redesign, but the big change, a transformation of its instant messaging product into a full fledged Web mail application, is being developed behind the scenes, says Fox News.

Facebook's instant messenger is currently baked into the site: pay a visit to Facebook and you're automatically logged into the messenger.

But according to TechCrunch, the site hopes to evolve its messaging client into a far more robust one, something that reaches beyond the site itself.

The European Commission (EC) is to rethink its data security practices in the wake of a recent attack on its Web-based Emissions Trading System (ETS), reports Computing.co.uk.

The announcement follows a phishing attack, which allowed cyber criminals to steal account data, and perform a number of fraudulent transactions.

Individual e-mails were sent to users of the ETS registries which redirected to a phoney log-in site to harvest the account details.

Dell has been ordered back into court to face claims it knowingly sold defective Inspiron 5 160 and 1 150 laptops, states The Register.

In October 2006, three Inspiron owners - Michael Omstead, Melissa Malloy, and Lisa Smith - filed suit against the PC maker, charging the company with "misconduct in connection with the design, manufacture, warranting, advertising and selling of the affected computers".

The trio complained that their laptops' cooling systems were inadequate, that their power supplies and cooling systems failed prematurely under normal use, and that their batteries either failed to charge or would only hold a charge for a short time.

A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update, writes the BBC.

The February update for Windows will close the loophole that dates from the time of the DOS operating system.

First appearing in Windows NT 3.1, the vulnerability has been carried over into almost every version of Windows that has appeared since.