The Pirate Bay, that well-known BitTorrent indexing site, has poked a virtual finger in the eye of the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, by taking over a domain licensed by the IFPI, but for which...

Newswire reports are coming in about a teenager from Mukilteo, Seattle, being arrested on charges of hacking into the 911 emergency phone network.Reports suggest that he managed to trick Emergency 911 dispatchers in Southern...

You can’t make this stuff up. We just received this sick spam from a user in the field:Then, followed by this one:The contact email address appears to be an email address of a legitimate (err, normal) person, so it's likely an...

A US court has snubbed a ruling by a Canadian court that ordered the removal of defamatory comments from a US website. The author had also asked that his comments be removed, but the site refused to comply and the US court has...

Firms across Europe have just two weeks to comply with a law that aims to create a single European market for financial services. But most are struggling with the Directive's record-keeping duties, according to survey findings...

Grab your iPhone and your broadband services from o2 for a mere £42.50 per month. The Broadband service is provided by Be Limited which is a subsidiary of o2 and is ranked amongst the best ISPs in UK. The standard 8mb...

Baidu.com, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, announced its strategic plan to enter the Chinese e-commerce market. Baidu will leverage its high user traffic and large online communities to build a consumer-to-...

Ebay has posted its third quarter 2007 financial results yesterday and as expected, it has reported an operating loss of USD 938 million due mainly to the massive Skype write-off it agreed to two weeks ago. This represented half...

Symantec announced the findings of an international study indicating that while 91 percent of IT organisations carry out full scenario testing of their disaster recovery plans incorporating relevant people, processes and...

As part of its commitment to support the open-source developer community, SAP AG announced that for the first time it will contribute software development capabilities to the Eclipse community. This new tool will enable...

Apple made a u-turn yesterday after apparently admitting defeat in its fight against third party, independent developers. The Cupertino-based company is readying a software development kit for third parties to create their own...

If you are after a big LCD HD Ready TV but don't really want to fork out a grand for it, then do consider the Teco TL4271RW which is a 42-inch mammoth.It is one of the cheapest 42-inch screens available (plasma or LCD), costing...

Bloxx, a enterprise web filtering specialist, today warned that the continued dramatic growth of online shopping could end up costing British businesses millions of pounds in lost productivity in the run up to Christmas.The...

SkillSoft PLC, a provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education, and small to medium- sized businesses, today announced, in conjunction with National Boss' Day, the results...

DSG International, the owner of Currys, Dixons, Techguys and PC World, has announced disappointing profits as earnings were slashed by £20m due to poor sales of Vista Related goods. Sales went up by more than 13% while...

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg answered some interesting questions from Industry veteran, John Battelle, at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. He provided with some interesting tidbits about the company. New financing has...

Online retailer Amazon is flogging a Belkin Wireless Cable DSL Router 54Mbps + 4 Port 10/100 Switch bundled with a 802.11g Wireless G USB Network Adapter for £31.98 including VAT and delivery. You can read a review from PC...

PBS and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today debuted the MediaShift Idea Lab blog, a group blog featuring 36 wide-ranging innovators reinventing community news for the digital age.Each Idea Lab blogger won a grant in...

Playstation manufacturer Sony has revealed that they are ceding the manufacturing facilities behind Playstation's Cell chip to Arch-rival and one-time partner, Toshiba. In a deal worth roughly £550m, Toshiba will take on...

Businessweek has learnt that Skype will launch a branded Phone with the help of Hutchinson's Whampoa 3 network by the end of October. 3 already has a X-series range of mobile phones, that allow you to make unlimited international...

News Corp. Sun has partnered with Tech Gadget Magazine, Stuff, in their search to find UK's Top gadget geek. Geek Idol's format is different from the likes of Pop Idol. You simply have to send a picture of yourself, complete with...

Businesses survive on advertising, with advertisers and their clients trekking the universe find next great thing in publicity. Well, it seems Newsweek is right, that 2007 is "Year of the Widget"The "final...

BT today unveiled plans to develop wind farms aimed at generating up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity requirements by 2016.  The wind farm scheme represents the UK's biggest corporate wind power project outside...

Social Network Myspace took a page from Facebook (pun intended) and announced that they are going to allow third party applications to be developed for Myspace "within the next few months". Facebook has freed its APIs...

According to EETimes, DS2, a Spanish network chip specialist, is set to debut a chip which will allow data to be transmitted using power lines at 400mbps, roughly 150 times the average speed of broadband in UK. Multi-room IPTV,...

Personal information leakage from computers is at an all-time high. Recently the Associated Press covered stories ranging from SSNs being stolen via commonly used consumer file sharing networks to TJX spending tens of millions of...

Whilst online sales revenue from the Christmas shopping period this year is predicted to top £10 billion, the UK’s leading names in retail risk losing substantial revenues due to sliding standards of their online...

Funambol announced it is working with 1&1, the world's largest web hoster, on a new push email and PIM (personal information management, e.g., contacts and calendar) synchronization solution for the mass market.The solution...

The IT industry must work more closely if it is to be recognised as an established profession like architecture and accountancy, according to the British Computer Society (BCS). Adam Thilthorpe, manager of the BCS...