Well, it seems the firestorm of protest has had its effect: Snopes (apparently) is no longer pushing Zango. This seems to have changed yesterday evening (the last time I confirmed the popup was at about 4 pm EDT yesterday).There...

Err... a big Italian bank, Fineco, gives these instructions for creating a password. It’s in Italian, but Francesco here did some translation:"to verify the security of a password, it is sufficient to put it in any...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled today that EU law does not force the disclosure of internet users' details in file-sharing cases. The judgment will be a blow to record labels but could also put ISPs in the UK at a...

Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has asked the Government to create a new offence of recklessly or knowing breaching data protection principles punishable by unlimited fines. He has also asked for other powers to be...

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) system operators would need exceptional justification for recording sound as well as video, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned.In a newly revised CCTV code of practice the ICO...

The fact that the myspace.co.uk address led to a 'parked' page with adverts for social networking sites including MySpace was taken to be evidence of an abusive registration and the domain name was given to MySpace.The ruling was...

Yup, satisfies the requirement for “simple”.

I remember the days of the £1,000 StarTac, the must have phone of the 90’s especially imported from China.  Then there was the T260, BT Cellnet’s (O2) launch GPRS handset, followed by a wave of desirable...

The Onda VX858LE costs only £40 at Dealextreme and comes with a 2.8 inch LCD display.- Touch screen- Solo core- Large screen- Elegant and compact design- Support MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, AVI, etc - Support lyric...

You can't beat this 500GB hard drive for its price. At £56.99 at Ebuyer, the Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ approaches it costs only 11.4 pennies per GB, a record.Simply powerful, Samsung HDD solutions offer high...

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Reports are continuing to come in that the Church of Scientology's Web site are continuing to be hit by waves of DDOS attacks organised by multiple groups of hackers. Tom Cruise must have upset some people -Ed Operating under...

I was astonished to read more reports that the German police are still casting around for utilities, as well as coding their own software, to eavesdrop on Skype calls. With a warrant, of course.The bad news, it seems, is that the...

Early UK iPhone adopters rejoice. In a bid to improve iPhone sales, O2 has announced that it will offer more minutes and texts for iPhone contracts for existing and new contracts as well as from the 1st of February. The cheapest...

When Steve Jobs said that it had sold nearly four million iPhones at the end of last year, a number of analysts and observers baulked at the number, which is much higher than their estimates. This started a frenzied search for...

XITI, a French Internet Traffic analysis company, has released data that Firefox's adoption in some European countries may reach 50 percent by the end of the year. Xiti however points to the fact that Firefox's market share...

In an email response to WinVistaClub.com, Microsoft has insisted that it will not be releasing Windows 7 next year, nor in 2010. (Edit : Mary Jo Foley has an interesting post which mentions that Microsoft is still on track to...

Paypal, the online payment specialist purchased by Ebay, has grabbed Israel-based Fraud Sciences. The firm is specialised in detecting online fraud, which Paypal is trying to curb and comes as Ebay is trying to push Paypal as...

FT.com has revealed that the French government is planning to send email warnings to anyone who would be caught sharing music files illegally. According to Jean Berbinau, general secretary of ARMT, the French regulatory...

A 80 percent increase in Q4 sales figures could not prevent VMware's shares from falling heavily on Monday afternoon after the close; VMWare's shares are down a whopping 26.83 percent at $22.27. VMWare reported an 88 percent...