Employees in the UK who do unpaid overtime do an average of seven hours' extra work a week, and would take home an extra £4,800 a year if they were paid the average wage for those unpaid hours, according to the Trades Union...

Cingular will be the first wireless carrier in the United States to demonstrate a service that allows wireless phone users to easily make a "live" video share call. The service allows users to send a live video stream to a...

This is not something new, but just something to share, especially in light of the fact that Zango owns HotBar.First, we see this ad placed through Fastclick on a well-trafficked website. The ad ultimately goes to this page:As...

Email, phone, prize draw and web shopping scams are being targeted by a new coalition of European consumer groups for the first time. The bulk of the Consumer Protection Co-Operation (CPC) Regulation came into force across Europe...

I am afraid, it might just be one of those "legal".... scams. On January 11, 2007, the entire United States will begin to be divided, town by town and city by city, at a new website called OnTheMapUS. The website presents a...

OPINION: Relegated as a relatively minor position in IT just a few short years ago, information security professionals are now getting the executive face time we have long craved and deserve for our diversity of knowledge and...

I was intrigued to read over the weekend that Cisco has acquired IronPort, the privately-held anti-spam and anti-virus firm, for a cool $830 million.Thar's a lot of bread, but it gives the networking/comms company a strong...

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Pronounced 'aa-Suess', it is a Taiwan-based company that produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, notebook computers, networking products, mobile phones, computer cases, and computer...

Cisco bought IronPort this morning. As a general comment, I applaud this decision. It makes sense for them to move into email and web security (not known to many is that IronPort recently launched a web filtering appliance)....

Fonality released trixbox 2.0, a free, easy to use, open source telephony and application platform. The new version, available for immediate download, can be installed in less than 15 minutes, supports multiple languages and...

A relatively new gambling account called ePassporte, has arrived on the scene, allowing punters to load up a virtual Visa card account - with a free Visa Electron `real' card for use in shops and ATMS.Although the virtual Visa...

A US University has filed a patent suit against Nokia, Samsung and Matsushita over the Bluetooth chips in their mobile phones. CSR, the Cambridge, UK supplier of the Bluetooth chips used in the phones, promised to defend its...

Atheros Communications announced the Atheros AR5007EG - the industry's most highly-integrated, cost-effective 802.11g PCI Express (PCIe) solution. It is the world's only design to incorporate the complete wireless LAN (WLAN)...

SonicWALL has deployed early protection against a rapidly proliferating variant of the Nuwar worm, which is spreading via emails containing seasonal greetings in the subject line. The rate of infection has picked up rapidly, and...

I once predicted that Inland Revenue self-assessment would be an easy phishing target and The Register reports that it's already happening with a bogus email promising a fictitious tax refund of £70. Fortunately, I paid my tax,...

Toshiba America Electronic Components and its parent, Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba) announced the latest enhancements to its extensive line-up of SD Memory Cards: a 4-gigabyte(1) (GB) Class 6 SDHC Card; a 4GB Class 4 miniSDHC Card; and...