UPDATED: SiteAdvisor software warns of untrustworthy sites

Five per cent of all Internet traffic goes to disreputable websites according to a survey by SiteAdvisor. For the past 11 months the company has been tracking Net usage with specially-developed Web crawling software and found that one in every 20 sites visited uploaded unwanted software to the visitor's PC, sent out spam or attempted to trick users into giving up sensitive information. They say that they visited 95 per cent of all websites during the survey, downloaded and tested 475,000 pieces of software and automatically filled in forms, each with one of 1. ...more

Palm ups the stakes in the battle for smartphone share

PalmSource's CEO David Nagel, described Cobalt today as 'simply the most important technological event in our short history' - see Palm shows off its next-gen Cobalt handeheld operating system He said that 'the traditional organiser market is pretty flat,' but forsaw huge growth opportunities in areas where the handheld has a dedicated task. Palm is already successful in vertical markets such as the medical professions and Nagel said the company would continue its focus there. He also praised the success of the Treo 600 for which supply is outstripping demand in some areas. ...more

Apple sues Creative, again

Apple has filed a second patent infringement lawsuit against rival portable music player maker Creative. The computer and iPod maker alleges that Creative is in breach of three patents covering the displaying of data on a computer, editing data using a portable media device, and the creation of icons to organise files on a computer. Apple issued its first lawsuit last month - alleging infringements of four patents - in response to a Creative lawsuit claiming that Apple had breached its patent on software menus. ...more

Consumers' Association accuses UK iTunes of overcharging

The Consumers' Association has asked the Office of Fair Trading to investigate whether Apple may be guilty of anti-competitive practices with the UK prices on the iTunes Music Store. In the UK iTunes charges 79p which corresponds to around €1.20. ...more

CeBIT 2005: Samsung launches first 7 megapixel phone

While it took the photographic industry several years before it produced the first 7 megapixel compact digital camera, the mobile phone industry is wasting no such time. Samsung has today announced a world first with the 7 million pixel SCH-V770 which, it has been reported, boasts manual focus, shutter priority, AE lock and an optical zoom as well as MP3 functionality and a business card reader. The SCH-V770, which can also take telephoto and wide-angle converter lenses, is due to make its debut at CeBIT, Germany tomorrow. ...more