American Presidential e-lections

The American states of California and Arizona are to conduct the November Presidential Elections online. VoteHere.net and Compaq have joined forces to provide complete solutions to state sponsored online voting pilots. ...more

Motorola plays iTunes

Motorola has unveiled its highly anticipated iTunes-playing 3G phone, the E1060, at the 3GSM Congress in Cannes, France With up to 512MB of additional storage via a removable card, the phone will have the same capacity as the smaller of the iPod shuffle models, though whether it will match Apple's device for sound quality remains to be seen. Although iTunes will be the default media player, it will not be the only one. 'We're committed to have iTunes as the default music client, but we'll also continue to support other music players such as RealPlayer,' said Amer Husaini, vice president for Motorola's mobile devices group in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. ...more

Bank's hacked server supports phish attack

Phishing is a familiar online threat, but news has emerged from China of a bank's webserver being used to host phishing sites. The Shanghai branch of the China Construction Bank, reports Network World, was hacked in order to host the phishing sites, which attempt to dupe visitors into revealing their bank details. The illegal sites were in hidden directories on a server with IP addresses belonging to the state-owned bank. ...more

Netgear preps for 802.11n

Netgear has announced that it is shipping the 'world's first' wireless-enabled ADSL2+ modem router based on the draft 802.11n specification. The box combines a next-generation broadband modem with a four-port Ethernet 10/100 switch, a double SPI and NAT firewall with Netgear's draft 11n-compliant RangeMax NEXT wireless LAN technology. ...more

Recycling printer cartridges to aid charity

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is putting its weight behind the recycling of printer cartridges. The funds raised will be used to fight heart disease, which it describes as the UK's biggest killer. Working with the recyclers LaserXchange, BHF will receive ?1 for every ink cartridge and ?2. ...more