Nokia invites developers to take on Series 60

Nokia opens a competition for developers to build Series 60 applications. Series 60 is the widely adopted platform for powerful mobile phones. Nokia is now encouraging developers to improve on the applications that are available on the handsets. ...more

California's senate set to ban gathering information from emails

The California State Senate is expected to pass a bill banning companies from scouring emails for use in marketing, according to the LA Times. However, an amendment to the bill will allow companies to search messages without getting the writer's permission. The amendment is vital to the success of the proposed Google Gmail service which would otherwise have been scuppered. ...more

?220mn hi-tech bank heist foiled by London police

A multi-million pound raid on the London offices of a Japanese bank has been foiled by police. But the attempted robbery did not involve vans, security guards or weapons - the theft was attempted by the electronic transfer of funds. The hacker tried to steal as much as ?220mn from accounts held at the Sumitomo Mitsui bank using keylogging software, before being intercepted by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). ...more

Ex-Apple man appointed PalmSource chairman

PalmSource has named fromer Apple executive Jean-Lous Gass?e as its new chairman, replacing Eric Benhamou who resigned last month. Gass?e joined Palm (before it split into PalmSource and palmOne) in 2003 when it acquired the assets when assets of the software company he founded, Be. Before Be he spent nine years at Apple, where he headed the Products Division. ...more

Updated: Agobot-AA worms round Instant Messaging

A new Internet worm is posing a computer security threat - Agobot-AA. The anti-virus specialist Sophos says it has already received several reports of the worm out in the wider world, in the wild. Using similar techniques to the Randex threat we covered at the start of the week - In the wake of Donk-D, comes the Randex worms - the worm tries to spread over remote IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels, which underpin instant messaging. ...more