Cable & Wireless buys broadband provider Bulldog for ?19mn

Cable & Wireless has bought broadband provider Bulldog for ?18.6mn. The telecoms company said that it was attracted by Bulldog's emphasis on local loop unbundling (LLU), in preference to reselling BT products. ...more

Sophos warns of new worms in the wild

Two new worms have been identified by anti-virus specialists Sophos. A new threat just spotted in the wild is the batch file worm Mamu-B. Using the Trojan 'PC Ghost', it logs keystrokes and attempts to send passwords to a preconfigured email account. ...more

Vodafone eyes direct 3G Internet access

Vodafone's German operation has unveiled plans to provide 3G Internet access direct to households. The mobile operator will install a wall mounted box that provides an Ethernet connection to the Internet, a USB port for a printer and three phone sockets, enabling the connection of a phone, fax and answer machine. As 3G's top speed of 384Kbps is no match for even 512K broadband connections, it is difficult to see where this will compete, particularly as rural areas not covered by ADSL provision are unlikely to have 3G access instead. ...more

Children recruited to commit cyber crime claims report

McAfee says that computer users are at risk from a range of criminal activities - often commited by gullible youngsters. A pan-European study into organised crime and the Internet reveals how irrestistable the Internet is to criminals who see it as a low risk way of making money. 'Aside from the scale that's available, and the fact that they don't have to be there to commit the crime, there isn't the legislation to subsequently apprehend them after the event` said Lee Fisher, McAfee Security Strategist. ...more

Creative launches lightest-ever Jukebox

Creative Labs has announced its latest addition to the high end of its Jukebox stable: the Jukebox Zen NX. Although smaller and lighter, the Zen NX packs an impressive 30GB - a figure that Creative puts at around 8,000 songs' worth of MP3 music. It connects via USB 2. ...more