PR people do funny things, especially when it comes to computers, email and the Internet in general. Take this one PR person, who spammed the world for an antispam company:In this instance, however, the mass mailing was readily...

As we’ve said before, Warner Brothers is in business with Zango. Now, a Warner Brothers kids site is directly promoting Zango. See it for yourself. Blog post here at Do Not Reply (and no, this doesn’t mean that kids are going to...

It looks like Paypal has some real competition in the US e-payment marketplace, which is good, especially now that eBay has frozen out Nochex, Paypal's main rival for e-cash here in the UK.A new service called KushCash is...

A new Web site - FingerSkilz.tv - that popped up at the start of the World Cup, and had a series of heroic displays of someone's hand on a desktop, using two fingers to perform footy-style tricks with a hand- made paper ball, has...

The file sharing network has been locked in battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the UK's International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for a number of years. The agreement settles...

1 . Where are IT careers heading generally? Firstly I am happy to report that we appear to be comfortably into an IT industry up-cycle that is not in danger of losing momentum in the foreseeable future. But the world and the...

From WMF exploits, to adware installations, to investigations by law enforcement, our Favorite Website of All Time, MySpace, is getting to be a pretty rough place to hang out. And now Chris Boyd discovers some new fun stuff...

Dark Reading published a list of IT's Biggest Security myths. These include data loss epidemics, Linux and the Mac OS as Windows insurance policies and Anti-virus software is 100 percent effective.The article included some of the...

Torbjörn Ahlberg of Swedish domain name sellers TBA Media had challenged McDonald's registration which was sought during an initial period when the .eu space was open only to trade mark owners.McDonald's relied for its .eu...

An experienced team of educators, psychologists and technology professionals have gathered to develop the first computer-based games aimed at helping to identify children ages 3-9 with early signs of dyslexia, and children ages...

A few days ago British software company etribes launched a secure, easy to use, online personal publishing and photo-sharing service for adults who are too busy to 'blog'. etribes lets people create their own personal website at...

The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act is named after a six-year-old who was abducted in 1981 and killed. His parents have since dedicated their lives to protecting children from child predators.The law contains meta tag...

A new version of Monopoly has been released and there's no longer any paper munney involved in the game. Instead, players use a Visa-branded bank card, which they insert into the `bank machine' and have debits and credits applied...

Commenting on the growing issue of greynet, Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of Wick Hill Group, said that the massive recent growth in these applications had created a strong need for security related products which can deal with the...

Open-source project OpenIPMP announced the release of OpenIPMP v2, a major upgrade to the open- source and open-standards based DRM (Digital Rights Management) system originally released in 2002.The OpenIPMP project aims to...