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From now on the company produces CMS templates for Joomla! and Mambo platforms.

TemplateMonster.com, a templates provider, offers new CMS templates designed for Joomla! and Mambo systems. The company holds that offering the new CMS templates is a step long anticipated by its customers.

The company states that both of these CMS packages contain many different parts, plugins and components that are integrated especially for better functionality and customization of use. The company avers that the two are basically variations of a similar product that were developed as a result of the project’s managers’ differences of emphases.

“We’ve been planning the Mambo and Joomla! templates release for a long time and today we have realized that goal. We place very big hopes on these new product lines,” says David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster. “Because these products are very similar, and both have high functionality as well as great popularity, we decided to launch them on the same day. The internet activity of today is trending toward people who neither have nor want programming skills or coding work. Using CMS systems today is desirable and considered by many to be a standard requirement.”

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It has been claimed that companies are being hindered by a lack of understanding regarding Web 2.0 technology.

Two new surveys have suggested that businesses do not have a sufficient understanding of how to work with and benefit from Web 2.0 applications and as a result access is being blocked, causing companies to miss out on the potential benefits of the technology.

According to research from IT services firm, Parity, almost half of senior managers are not aware of the benefits that are to be gained from promoting Web 2.0 in the workplace, while a third of IT managers polled admitted that they had a lack of understanding as to how best to utilise the technology.

Furthermore, research from security firm Clearswift revealed that 65 per cent of HR decision-makers polled were denying employees access to social networking sites in the office, rather than working on ways that the technology could be used to boost their business.

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org

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Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

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Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.

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The type of domain name that a website uses is not necessarily authorised any more, it has been claimed, and can be attained by almost anyone.

Record sales of certain domain names with popular key words highlight the importance of the name of site, yet communications supplier Pipex Hosting has stated that these names are often not actually what they describe.

While there was an original number of rules designed to control what group was classified as an organisation and which were considered a business, Macsen Galvin, development director of Pipex Hosting said today “a lot of registries took a very laissezy-faire kind of approach to see how [the internet] would grow”.

Mr Galvin explained that for a “.org” domain name, a group must in theory be a non-commercial organisation, but in practice “people will go and get a ‘.org’ address if their choice of a ‘.com’ or ‘.co.uk’ isn’t available“.

Users can be confused about which sites are true to their domain names and while Mr Galvin said some sites like the “.kids.us” registrar enforce strict codes for using certain domains, the ones that do not could cause users to be suspicious of any website they use in the future.

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A new technology has been developed that could see people using their own bodies to transfer data from one device to another in future.

Communications provider KDDI has developed a new form of memory storage that could replace memory cards and flash sticks by making it far simpler to transfer information and less likely to be damaged in transit.

The company has discovered that the transfer of data such as video and music can be achieved at a frequency of less than 40MHz, Tech Digest reports.

This information could allow for video downloads by mobile phones to be made via human body in future, via glasses fitted with copper coils that touch the wearer’s forehead.

When the metal heart is touched, video is transmitted to the glasses, as well as to an external PC monitor.

If the technology can be successfully developed, it could revolutionise the way information is transferred.

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The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold.

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Computer game fanatics hoping to open a Nintendo Wii on Christmas day could be left feeling disappointed as high street retailers are reporting shortages of the bestselling console.

Shops are currently struggling to keep up with demand from consumers, the BBC reports, and many people who put in advance orders for the console have not yet received the gadget.

Nintendo has insisted that it was “doing everything possible” to rectify the situation, shipping out around 3.5 extra consoles around the globe.

“The demand for Wii hardware globally has been unprecedented and higher than Nintendo could ever have anticipated,” a spokeswoman told the BBC.

“Nintendo is now in a position in which seasonality demand trends are being broken, therefore the demand for Wii hardware is constant throughout the whole year globally.

“Due to this phenomenon it is possible that the demand for Wii hardware may outstrip supply,” she said.

Bad news for one games console maker is good news for another, with Sony reporting that US sales of its PlayStation have doubled in the past few weeks thanks to a recent price cut.

Sony recently sold 100,000 PS3s in just seven days.

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New research has suggested that thousands of databases could be under threat of security breaches because they lack adequate protection.

Researcher David Litchfield has claimed that as many as half a million database servers have no firewall protection, making them easy prey for hackers to access sensitive information.

Mr Litchfield, who is managing director of NGSSoftware, said in his report into the issue: “There are approximately 368,000 Microsoft SQL Servers… and about 124,000 Oracle database servers directly accessible on the internet.”

Describing the situation as “terrible”, Mr Litchfield urged organisations to tackle poor database security because of the danger and problems it causes for individuals.

He also said that many of the databases were unpatched and commented that the patch levels were “atrocious”.

About 82 per cent of the SQL Server databases that Mr Litchfield studied were using older SQL Server 2000 software, while around 13 per cent of the Oracle servers were running on old versions that did not even receive patches anymore.

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