An Intel employee who became depressed when her workload increased due to corporate cost cutting has won compensation from the company in the High Court.The employee, referred to in the case as Mrs D, worked in the finance...

France Telecom's subsidiaries Orange and Wanadoo have been combined together with Equant and Etrali into a single superbrand - Orange.As from the 1st of June 2006, Orange has also offered its own free version of broadband to...

The British government has quietly announced a number of amendments and additions to the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which have been enshrined in the Police and Justice Bill 2006.The Bill - which will be tabled in the House of...

Goofbay is the latest of online services that are offering to pull out bargains from Ebay. The largest auction site is a strange world indeed where bargains are often not found where you would expect them to be.Miss-spelled...

I was a tad concerned to hear that The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular Web portals for downloading BitTorrent indices, went offline last Wednesday evening, after the Swedish authorities shut the site down.Reports...

Firefox 2.0 alpha 3, which will eventually become the fully fledged Firefox 2.0, now comes with Google Anti-phishing tools built-in.Personally, the only time I used Google's AP tools was with Gmail. Unfortunately the result was...

It's reported that Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will not be pursuing the criminals who used a Trojan horse program to lock a Manchester woman's files and demanded a ransom to release them.A story in Silicon.Com today has...

Thirty-eight percent of UK companies with 1,000 or more employees hire staff to read or analyse outbound email, according to a new survey by a messaging security company.Proofpoint, based in Cupertino, California, suggests that...

The personal details of over 1.5 million people have been lost in two lost computer incidents. Around 1.3 million clients of a Texas student loan company and 243,000 customers of Hotels.com have data on computers whose...

A Barbie doll is superficially attractive, lacks personality and its association with food might be taken as a warning of blandness, wrote Canada's Supreme Court in a ruling on Friday that upheld the branding rights of a chain of...