Nokia goes button crazy

Nokia's newly launched 5510 looks like no other mobile phone on the market, with a full keyboard either side of a largish screen. An obvious ploy to get people SMS messaging on a full time basis it may well be, particularly as Nokia is looking to roll out its multimedia messaging service. But the handset also packs a digital music player that supports AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) and MP3 formats, backed up by 64Mb of memory. ...more

Keystroke-tapping worm runs riot

A virus is rapidly working its way across the Web, tracking the keystrokes of infected machines allowing hackers to pick up passwords, credit card details and other sensitive information. The W32.Badtrans. ...more

Cable & Wireless cooling on UK retail broadband market?

Cable & Wireless, the owners of Bulldog, may be about to withdraw from the retail broadband market. Several Sunday newspapers have reported that C&W is concerned that the UK broadband market may be approaching saturation point. If, as a result, it cannot continue to expand its user base, the company has little prospect of recouping the ?18mn it paid for Bulldog and the ?250mn it has subsequently invested. ...more

Jobs renews attack on Microsoft 'deal'

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has issued a second statement criticising Microsoft's offer of $1 billion to settle an anti-trust lawsuit alleging that it overcharged for its software. In the statement he said, 'The centrepiece of Microsoft's proposed $1 billion civil antitrust settlement is their donation of Microsoft software, which they value at $830 million, to our schools. We think people should know that the actual costs to Microsoft for this donated software will likely be under $1 million. ...more

Uri Geller sued after quashing questioning clip

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued Uri Geller after he persuaded YouTube to remove a video, which he said violated his copyright. In March, Geller sent a DMCA take-down notice to the Google-owned video sharing website after he discovered that Brian Sapient, a pseudonym, a clip entitled 'Secrets of the Psychics', which challenges his claim that his spoon-bending antics are evidence of psychic powers. YouTube immediately informed Sapient that the video had been removed and his account suspended, which meant that 100 videos he had posed were unavailable for a fortnight. ...more