Computer Associates accounts debacle forces more departures

The financial scandal which engulfed Computer Associates last year leads to nine more sackings yesterday. The scandal had already forced the resignation of the company's Chief Financial Officer last year. Yesterday's departures included four people from the company's legal department and five more from Finance. ...more

Healthcare tops the spam charts

July saw a big increase in Healthcare related spam whilst the proportion of pornographic spam dropped significantly. These are the findings of the monthly Clearswift survey of the spam received by 16 million users across the globe. According to Clearswift the proportions of spam received in July were healthcare 25. ...more

Pentax offers entry-level digital offering

Pentax's new EI-100 camera is designed to be an entry-level offering for first-time digital buyers. It's designed to be as easy to operate as a conventional compact camera, with a number of auto features and selectable modes - for example, auto-flash and a red-eye reduction mode. The technical spec for the EI-100 includes 8Mb of built-in flash memory (capable of storing up to 50 JPEG images at 1280 x 960 pixels), a 1. ...more

Tiscali hits back at BPI

If the British Phonographic Industry thought that the ISPs Tiscali and Cable and Wireless would meekly suspend the 59 subscriber accounts which are allegedly involved in wholesale copyright theft, it has had to think again. In a letter to the BPI, Tiscali demands that the BPI shows more compelling evidence that unlawful behaviour has actually taken place before it will consider suspending the accounts of those concerned. The BPI had demanded the suspension of the accounts by saying it had identified 17 Tiscali IP addresses and 42 Cable and Wireless IP addresses that had been involved in large scale downloading of copyright material. ...more

Linux Foundation builds on OSDL and FSG

The two leading Linux bodies - the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group - are to merge to form the Linux Foundation. The erstwhile executive director of the Free Standards Group, Jim Zemlin, will head up the Foundation. The OSDL's chief Stuart Cohen left in December of last year. ...more