A sales agent has won the right to retain a customer database built up while working on behalf of an insulation company. The High Court ruled that the agent was the 'first owner' of the database under the EU Database...

Back in 2001, our chief scientist for security, Joe Wells, wrote a seminal piece on antivirus testing. It’s called Pragmatic Anti-Virus Testing and if you’re involved in testing security products, it’s well worth a read. Joe...

I had a piece of spam email on my Blackberry this morning, offering me access to 8,000 internet addresses. Not in any way unusual but for the fact that it came from my own 'spoofed' domain - what a coincidence - and there's...

It’s official then. Today’s hacker is more likely to be working as part of a crime syndicate than for kicks. And they are likely to be out for profit rather than boyish (or girlish) kicks.According to this Reuters report...

Simply RISC is the first firm to market an Open Source Sun processor. Back in 2001, a chinese student called Shen Shengyu, designed an open source microprocessor core called the nnARM that was compatible with the ARM7 processor...

Boots the Chemists is considering whether to stop accepting cheques from customers at all of its 1,500-plus stores across the UK.The chain will start a trial of refusing cheques from customers at 46 of its stores across Sussex...

The world's biggest record label has said that it may pursue YouTube and MySpace for copyright infringement. The move reverses big business's recent courting of the new media titans."We believe these new businesses are copyright...

A growing number of mobile phones are sporting large colour screens. As such, there is an opportunity to turn our phones into the perfect car gadget, the SatNav or Satellite Navigation, for a fraction of the price.Map24 is one of...

Ask vendors for a definition, and you'll get one. But is the definition correct, or are vendors taking a narrow view of virtualisation that plays only to their strengths? And the majority of organisations see that they have...

Enterprise-quality SMS operator TynTec launched a new solution to guarantee secure, scalable and reliable SMS delivery for the financial services sector. The new Banking Grade SMS solution enables banks to send customers'...

Police in Spain last week are reported to have been red-faced after a video presentation on how to get promoted to sergeant were instead shown footage from a hard-core adult film.According to a number of newswires, raucous...

The US Department of Justice has admitted that the 1961 Wire Act which it uses to prosecute executives of online gambling companies is "dated". The Department insists, though, that the law is sufficient for the prosecution of...

Kasenna unveiled PortalTV 2.0, Kasenna’s blueprint for integrated delivery of Television and Internet video content. PortalTV 2.0, built on a standards-based web services platform, enables service providers to rapidly deploy IPTV...