Spamhaus risks losing .org domain name

Leading anti-spam operation, Spamhaus is threatened with losing its domain name, which would effectively put it out of business. The challenge comes from a company that says that blacklisting by Spamhaus had caused it lost business and jobs. In September an Illinois court awarded e360 Insight damages against Spamhaus to the tune of $11,715,000 and a permanent injunction to prevent Spamhaus from blacklisting the firm in the future. ...more

UK employers say IT workforce needs more training

The latest research from e-skills UK, says that 57 per cent of employers believe their IT staff require additional skills, a jump of 11 per cent over the same survey last year. The survey also found that employers in London and the South East expected to lose up to 24,000 jobs over the next year. In contrast, many regions including Scotland, Northern Ireland, the North East, the North West, Yorkshire and Humberside and the east of England can all expect to boost their IT workforces by between 0. ...more

Record rise in LLU connections

December saw the biggest surge yet in the number of unbundled Internet connections in the UK, with 200,000 new LLU lines taking the total to 1.3 million. More strikingly, there are now more than ten times as many LLU lines as there were at the beginning of 2006, with the benefits evident in lower prices. ...more

Bank turns to idle PCs for computing power

A French bank has come up with a cheap and easy way of boosting its total computing capability. BNP Paribas is using off-the-shelf grid software to harness the power of all the PCs that sit idle on its desks overnight. From 700 machines it is getting an extra 6,000 computing hours and the cost amounts to little more than the price of licensing Symphony grid software from Platform Computing. ...more

Macromedia contributes to eBay Stores

Macromedia has announced a special version of its Contribute website editing application designed to simplify the creation and customisation of eBay Stores. eBay Store sellers will be able to create and manage their store from within Contribute, without needing to know any HTML, allowing them to quickly design and publish a professional-looking store featuring logos, images, descriptions, product categories, product showcases, and product search. 'eBay Stores is an online selling solution that is used by hundreds of thousands of sellers to build their own customised online store,' explained Julian Green, senior manager of eBay Stores. ...more