DVD the PC saver?

Another prediction from research group IDC. This time it says the growth in DVD technology could well be the saviour of the sluggish PC and chip markets. It says DVD technology is now officially the fastest growing technology in the history of consumer electronics, including televisions, cellphones and VCRs. "Sales of DVD players will approach 40% penetration by the end of this year," the report predicts, and the growth is not about to slow down. More importantly, however, are the findings that consumers are ready to embrace DVD recording as a replacement for creating home movies and personalised videos. Notably, DVD sales exceeded VHS last year and sales and rentals of DVD discs last year exceeded $6.4billion.

Confirming a report late last week, the Organisation for Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, yesterday announced official adoption of UDDi 3.0. One of the cornerstones of the much hyped Web services model, the UDDI 3.0 - or Universal Description, Discovery and Integration - standard was conceived by IBM, Microsoft and Ariba and adoption by OASIS is bound to give it a much-needed boost. Earlier versions of UDDI, an essential element for locating Web services online, lacked many of the features needed to turn it into a useable foundation. TheRegister reports that prior to UDDI 3.0 many developers were known to be hardwiring Web services together using lightweight directory access. [More at TheRegister]

No surprise here. The monthly virus statistics released by vendors again have the Klez worm at position one. The good news is that it seems as if the worm is on the decline, with MessageLabs reporting that it blocked 475 000 copies of the worm in July, down from the 788 000 blocked in June. MessageLabs also reports that the general infection rates are down significantly. The company estimates that one in every 256 e-mails is infected with a virus or worm. This is down significantly from the one in every 30 mails sent during the days of Goner and LoveBug infections. The second most virulent virus for the month was Yaha-E, blocked 111 000 times, followed by Sircam, reported 17 427 times. [More]

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