A pretty interesting move, eBay’s CEO has emailed about a million eBay users, arguing for net neutrality. The email starts like this:As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a request to get involved in a...

The British music industry is planning to sue the Russian download site AllofMP3.com in the UK courts – but according to a Solicitor Advocate, while the law is on its side, practical problems with enforcement could limit the...

The idea of LAMP (which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) has its share of detractors. Cliff Wells is one of them, and writes an interesting rant on the subject. PHP and MySQL are this generation's BASIC, the language...

Many PC users log onto their systems with administrative accounts all the time, because they need to be able to run certain programs or perform tasks that require administrative privileges and don't want to have to log off and...

Tech types have been predicting for decades that the end of the paper era is at hand. Remember how computers were going to lead to the "paperless office?" Yet it seems that today, with computers everywhere, we generate more paper...

The clearing banks, according to APACS, are suffering from the growing problem of online banking fraud fraud. This doubled in 2005, hitting £23.2m, due to the rise in email phishing scams. And last year internet, phone and...

Vista and Office 2007 are losing PDF and XPS. Vista is losing PC-to-PC sync.XPS, the XML-based printer specification format, competes with Adobe, possibly the reason why Adobe is so grumpy at Microsoft (hence, PDF is toast). ...

A group of MPs has asked the Government to ensure that people with disabilities can access eBooks after an inquiry found that anti-copying technology is excluding disabled users.The call came from the All Party Parliamentary...

Recently I had a terrible experience which shows one of the downside of convergence. It also rung the phrase ‘practice what you preach’ to my ears.To cut a long story short, my 128MB MP3 player was ‘accidentally’ nicked by one of...

Customers of six banks in Dubai, who had the misfortune to use an ATM in Umm Suqueim in Dubai, which officials said appeared to have been tampered with, have had their cards changed by the banks concerned.According to a report in...

The British music industry's trade body has told a House of Commons committee that it will not sue consumers who copy CDs they have purchased to a portable music player.Copyright law in the UK has no 'private use' exception. That...

Now, that's a bright idea, writing a collaborative book altogether. When Phil McArthur came up with the idea of writing a book, he figured out that it might be a good way of collecting money for charities. This is why he...

Steganos has announced a free online encryption service that allows Internet users to encrypt and decrypt data using 256-bit AES.Known as Steganos FreeCrypt, the service has been launched to mark the company's tenth...

Newsforge has an interesting article on FreeNAS which is an open source NAS (Network Attached Storage) server software. In a nutshell, it is a 16MB application that converts a PC into a NAS server.The good thing with it, as it is...

Nice work, Wayne… this is quite interesting. Now there are articles hitting mainstream press covering the proposed deal, and we can point readers to a rough translation of an article that Google News snagged out of Israel: Hotbar...

Defined: Bittorrent enables the sharing of files over the internet using P2P / Peer to Peer protocol. It’s a very effective way of sharing files over the web without suffering from excessive bandwidth costs. Savvy...

The Arcadia Group – one of the UK's biggest clothing retailers – is facing court action for not making its Burton store in Stafford accessible to disabled customers, the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) said yesterday.The DRC...

There’s a new trojan on the loose, undetected by almost all AV engines: Pornmagpass, from pornmagpass(dot)com.Install it as a “free” ticket to porn. After all, the FAQ says “It is 100% free. No catch.”But… the EULA says:SOFTWARE...