Website promises free credit reference check

Not free credit, but free access to your credit status - this is the promise of annualcreditreport.co.uk and Credit Reporting Agency, the company behind the website. ...more

Price check: TFT monitors

In September, when last we looked, a 15in TFT monitor would set you back ?187. Today, the cheapest we saw was at Dixons in the form of a Proview CY-465 with built-in speakers for ?169.99. ...more

MORI: Internet users prepared to pay ISPs for better spam protection

Internet users are prepared to pay extra to their ISPs in return for protection against spam and 'malicious Web content', according to a new survey. MORI found that the majority of Web users look to their ISPs to block spam, viruses and obscene websites for which 45 per cent are prepared to pay as much as ?2 extra per month. Twenty-nine per cent believe the problem is so bad that they would pay an additional ?5. ...more

Sunbelt Software acquires Kerio Personal Firewall

Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but Sunbelt Software has announced that it will acquire Kerio Technologies' Personal Firewall product. This will be re-branded, temporarily, as the Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall, with all existing customers receiving support through Sunbelt once the acquisition is completed, which is expected to be before the end of the month. 'The popular Kerio firewall is a clear technology leader in endpoint security for businesses and consumers,' said the president of Sunbelt Software, Alex Eckelberry. ...more

Google searches for meaning as a verb

The latest batch of 100 or so new words to make it into Merriam-Webster's dictionary will include google as a verb. Along with 'spyware' and 'mouse potato', 'google' has now entered common parlance according to the dictionary's researchers. The word is described as a transitive verb: 'To use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web'. ...more