Colombia grounds .uk.co

More than 8,000 owners of .uk.co domains were left without a Web presence this morning as a spat between the . ...more

Strato stands in way of Apple iPhone trademark

Apple's apparent intention to register iPhone as a trademark for its anticipated mobile phone may encounter a significant obstacle should the company hope to sell it in Germany, after an Internet provider there launched a VoIP service bearing the same name. Strato's iPhone offers free Internet-based voice calls to other iPhone subscribers, plus low-cost calls to landline and mobile phones. Apple is expected to release possibly two mobile phone models next year. ...more

Liberty adopts Trusted Transaction platform for mobile data

The standards body Liberty Alliance has announced it is to incorporate the Radicchio initiative for secure m-commence and mobile data services. The initiative is hoped to allow ISPs and telcos to develop standard methods of authentication and sharing personal data across mobile networks. The Radicchio alliance, which is a partnership dedicated to developing secure m-commerce and data services, has delivered Trusted Transaction Roaming platform (T2r) to the Liberty Alliance. ...more

Europe and Asia to drive mobile porn explosion

Mobile phone porn revenues are expected to rise by 50 per cent to be worth more than $1bn a year in 2005. According to a report by Juniper Researh the boom will be fuelled by streamed video and video clips. The research firm says that the mobile phone 'adult' market will amount to $1. ...more

BlackICE Defender personal firewall open to attack

Denial of Service and remote access vulnerabilities for Windows 2000 and XP. Internet Security Systems has released a series of patches for its BlackICE range of security applications. A recently-discovered hole means that an attacker may crash or, at worst, take control of Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems running the BlackICE Defender personal firewall and intrusion detection system. ...more