August sees 10 per cent spam drop

August saw a 10 per cent drop in spam levels, according to email security company Messagelabs. The company said there was a sequential drop in spam with levels falling from 94.5 per cent in July to 84. ...more

Internet sees boom in Christmas spending

Britain's online shoppers spent a total of ?1.324 billion in December, up 70 per cent on December 2002. Combined with November's figures, a total of ?2. ...more

Privacy International puts the boot in with Big Brother awards of shame

The Government has won a raft of awards at the glittering 6th Annual Big Brother Awards ceremony, run by Privacy International. Simon Davies, Director of Privacy International, beamed: 'The winning nominations reflect a broad and intensified assault on the right to privacy in the UK. There is a clear hostility within government to privacy and a general antagonism to it from within business. ...more

Video: HP unleashes its giant Dragon laptop

HP has announced its first ever DirectX 10 laptop, the HP Pavilion HDX Entertainment Notebook PC. The machine - codenamed Dragon - is clearly a desktop replacement built with home leisure in mind. Watch our exclusive video report below. ...more

Adobe spins a CE Linux version of its Acrobat reader

Devices based on the consumer electronics version of the open source OS can now read Adobe PDF files. Adobe says that the announcement of a CE Linux version of the popular Adobe Acrobat will allow PDF documents to be read on a much wider range of devices. The first product to incorporate the new version of the Reader is a car navigation system designed for the Japanese market by Sony. ...more