Latest smart phone virus targets Symbian
News Mabir.A can spread as an MMS message and over Bluetooth, but it's unclear whether the mobile virus is in the wild yet
Clarke pledges to push on with ID cards
News The home secretary has pledged to stand by the ID cards bill if re-elected as opposition parties reject claims they have 'killed' the legislation
UK's e-government schemes 'lack depth'
News A report from Accenture has classed the UK as a follower when it comes to e-government, and criticised the depth of services available online
Big guns line up against Microsoft
News IBM, Nokia, Oracle and other industry heavyweights are all lining up next to the EU in its antitrust case against the software behomoth
Security guru warns of cyberpolice shortage
News Howard Schmidt, who used to advise the US president on cybersecurity, wants a concerted push to raise the public's awareness of the issue
Tracking tech raises privacy concerns
Feature Event data recorders are being used more and more in cars, but have their privacy implications been properly thought through?
BT's Bluephone must be convergence without the con
Leader BT wants to sell us one phone that works on fixed and mobile lines. Those should be the only lines it sells us
Winning over the file sharers
Q&A University campuses have been hotbeds of illegal file-swapping for years. The movie and music industries are now trying to crack that market legally
Schwartz swipes at the GPL
News Builder: The GPL imposes a 'predatory obligation to disgorge IP back to the wealthiest nation in the world' on its users, according to Sun's president
Search engines accused over click fraud
News Ten Internet firms, including Google, Yahoo and AOL, are accused of knowingly overcharging for pay-per-click online advertising
Election sparks calls for cybercrime minister
News The future of cybercrime fighting in the UK is up in the air, as next month's election could derail the creation of the Serious Organised Crime Agency
Russian hackers 'the best in the world'
News Russians who once hacked for fun are now teaming up to get rich through cybercrime, according to police
Man jailed over Ericsson espionage
News Brief: A Hungarian man has been sent to prison after being found guilty of industrial espionage having illegally accessed Ericsson's network
Linux 'not just for power users'
News It is far easier to persuade those just starting to learn to use a PC to switch to Linux than those with experience and technical know-how, according to a report
Fujitsu unveils latest Itanium offering
News The Japanese firm is increasing its attack on the international server market with a new family of Itanium-based servers
O2 xda IIi
Review We like O2's upgraded xda IIi handheld/phone combo as much as we liked the xda II -- which is to say, a lot.
Firefox flaw made public
News Secunia has published details of a 'moderately critical' memory exposure flaw in Mozilla's Firefox browser's JavaScript engine
Microsoft drops Windows cluster bomb
News The software behemoth's plans to offer an off-the-shelf supercomputing solution have been pushed back. A full launch is now not expected until 2006



