My thanks to Nick at the Cloudmark press office for letting me know that Cloudmark Desktop - arguably one of the best anti-spam systems for Outlook and Outlook Express - is now available for the Thunderbird email client.The good...

Be Internet - now a division of O2 - has been lambasted by its users for blocking a range of Web sites hosted by Lycos.According to newswire reports, Be has been blocking access to child abuse images based on a twice-daily update...

Joe St Sauver, Ph.D. at the University of Oregon gave a rather grim presentation at the Internet2 Member Meeting last week.He points out the potentially serious issue of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and pandemic flu as threats....

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has issued High Court proceedings against a Northern Irish firm, accusing it of using unlicensed software. It is not yet clear if the company, Kelman Ltd, will defend the action.Anti-piracy...

The set of rules which Google proposed as the foundation for a global privacy standard are inadequate, a privacy law expert has said. The rules are not specific enough to operate as a global standard, said the expert.Last month...

News agency Associated Press (AP) is suing Verisign over that company's unlicensed use of AP news stories. The suit relates to Verisign-owned news aggregation site Moreover.Moreover is a news publishing service designed to bring...

An agreement that could slash the cost of filing a patent across Europe can come into force after the French Government signed up to the system. Called the London Agreement, it could not take effect without French backing.The...

Samsung Electronics has today revealed that the digital divide is alive and well in the UK workplace, with one in five Briton’s citing that they do not have the basic IT facilities to carry out their day-to-day job for...

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced a new model to enforce safeguards aimed at protecting its network members, especially children and adolescents, from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment.Under...

Fortune's Magazine own blog, Tech Daily Report, got news from a UBS analyst, Benjamin Schachter, that a first batch of 50,000 Gphones will come out of Taiwan-based manufacturer HTC by the end of the year. The phones will be built...

After tackling individual pirates, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is going after the Usenet, one of the oldest computer network communications systems around, which even predates the World Wide Web. Last...

BBC writes that the Murdoch-owned Social networking Giant, Myspace, is going to partner with Skype - owned by Auction behemoth Ebay, to allow Myspace users to call each other for free as well as landlines and mobiles for a fee....

The Leopard is out of its cage next week, according to The Register and Guardian Unlimited. Mac OS X 10.5 will go on sale in the UK on Friday 26th October at 6pm, nearly four months after it was announced, with a price of...

Figures released by ChartTrack, the UK gaming official chart, show that Sony's Playstation 3 sales have been boosted more by the recent drop in price than by the introduction of a 40GB non-PS2 compatible PS3 console. Gamespot...

Standalone Digital cameras and electronic PDA sales have been affected by the popularity of mobile phones (especially smartphones) which combined the functionalities of the two aforementioned devices. Now mobile phones look set...

Competition from the likes of Amazon, Wal-mart and Best Buy in the US has forced Apple to review its pricing startegy. The Financial Times is reporting that iTunes has dropped the unit price of DRM-less MP3 songs to USD 0.99....

Apple and Orange today announced that Orange, the leading wireless carrier in France, will be the exclusive French carrier partner for the iPhone when it makes its debut in France on Thursday, November 29. iPhone combines three...