Microsoft clashes with gadget blog site
News A blog has attracted the attention of Microsoft's lawyers after posting a story about Windows Mobile 2005
Yahoo gambles on betting exchange venture
News The portal is teaming up with Betfair to bring online gambling to the masses
Viruses get political
News Two viruses are spreading that include messages of support for Fathers 4 Justice -- showing that malware can be used for political ends
ID card database could double as voter register
News A parliamentary inquiry has been told that the national identity database could be used for an electronic voter register
Do 'irresponsible' security researchers help or hinder?
Feature By making coding flaws public, are security researches exposing us all to unnecessary risk?
Vienna takes the boldest step of all - asking the users
Leader Choosing software is too often political. Yet politics is for the people - so ask them
Security firm probes reports of car viruses
News Cars may be the next target for virus writers. Kaspersky Labs is investigating reports of Lexus cars being infected
Privacy activists demand Tesco boycott over RFID
News Tesco's plan to increase the use of radio barcode technology is under fire from campaigners who claim it is a privacy nightmare
Blaster writer faces jail
News The teenager from Minnesota who admitted writing the Blaster virus will be sentenced this week. He is likely to face jail time and could be forced to pay Microsoft $600,000
Police culture crippling cybercrime fight
News A senior UK policeman has warned that finding funding for the fight against cybercrime is becoming increasingly difficult
Rambus back in court
News More lawsuits have been filed in Rambus' ongoing battle over a number of patents concerning DDR2 DRAM, and the battle could spread yet further
Sun contemplating open sourcing JES
News Builder: Having just started opening up Solaris, Sun is looking at the possibility of doing the same to its Java Enterprise System
HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One
Review HP's OfficeJet 7410 provides the latest all-in-one features and functions -- at a price.
RFID is now mainstream
News RFID is in the 'early adopter stage' according to analysts, but many are looking beyond the current tech to the next-generation possibilities
Red Hat testing developer tool
News Builder: The popular Linux distributor has started testing a tool that is intended to help programmers write software that will work across all versions of the company's OS
Insecure online forms put PayPal users at risk
News A security flaw in the methods used by a survey company contracted by PayPal looks likely to have increased the risks of Paypal users being subjected to phishing attacks
Apple patches OS X
News Brief: Seven security holes in OS X were patched by the computer maker on Tuesday
Microsoft: 'No patches for pirates'
News In an apparent attempt to cut down on the use of pirated versions of Windows, Microsoft is going to enforce authenticity checks of users' operating systems before it allows them to download add-ons...



