Get the poor online, watchdog urges

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is warning consumers on data protection, with its latest investigation which focused on second-hand hard drives. The report issued by the ICO claims that 10 per cent of used hard disks...

Online retail and payments giant eBay has announced a 14% increase in its net income for the third quarter, thanks to the healthy growth of PayPal, its online payments division. The company revealed that for the third quarter...

It's official: Léo Apotheker has been shown the door at HP after just a year at the top, with the company looking to ex-eBayer Meg Whitman to lead it forward as it attempts a reinvention away from consumer products and...

Consumer Focus, an organisation that rallies for consumer rights in England, has released a report in which it has urged the UK government to revamp its strategy related to the nationwide roll-out of broadband internet, if it...

Plans to introduce a law that will force internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites accused of hosting copyright-infringing content have been condemned by ISPs, publishers, consumer groups, user rights groups...

The Government's plan to cut off suspected file sharers from the internet might be rendered irrelevant by a ruling from Europe's top court, an intellectual property expert has said. The Government has just published proposals to...

In order to lure cost-conscious users, Best Buy Co. on Tuesday announced that it is offering cheaper refurbished iPhone 3G devices, at nearly $50 less than the new models.  The consumer electronics chain claimed that the...

HTC/T-Mobile/Google's G1 smartphone is finally out and reviews are rapidly cropping around but already, there are a number of flaws, some small, others worryingly massive, in Google's strategy that have been made even more...

Yet another letter, this time from Yahoo to highlight how good they are and how much Microsoft has undervalued them.Yahoo! Inc. announced that it has sent a letter to its stockholders, outlining the reasons the Board believes...

The businessmen behind some of the rock world's biggest names have called for a levy on the concert ticket aftermarket, where people sell on tickets they have bought for profit or because they cannot go to a concert.The live...

The Electronic Retailing Association, an industry association representing direct response marketing companies and major retailers that use electronic media to sell goods and services to consumers, will hold its 15th annual...

Below are three ways to prevent a security failure from becoming a massive PR catastrophe.I. Prevention - Foster a pervasive culture of organizational commitment to the right technologies and security policies to keep a...

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have issued a new set of guidelines on distance selling, which includes sales of goods to consumers over the internet and by phone.The guidelines are...

Today marks the beginning of ‘ID Fraud Awareness Week’ and it is also the week that will finally witness the launch of GetSafeOnline, a Home-Office backed meeting of minds and money intended to tackle the now rampant problem of...

"You don't want to open that Pandora's Box, because you never know what Trojan Horses will leap out". Prime Minister Ernest Bevin It’s now over three years since government started to recognise that it needed to address the...