Mobile scam man jailed

The man behind the UK's biggest mobile phone fraud was jailed for 30 months yesterday. Radomir Lukic was an experienced electronics engineer who initiated the scam, which involved modified mobile phones that allowed the user to make unlimited calls. He had a legitimate business but operated his illegal mobile phone factory out of a small flat. ...more

Printing in the palm of your hand

Sony has announced a palm-sized colour photo-printer that prints borderless photos anywhere in less than two minutes. Using Sony's memory Stick media, the DPP-MP1 weighs less than 454g, including batteries and paper tray and can connect to a PC via USB. It will be out in November in the US for $280. ...more

BT and Broadreach agree WiFi hotspot roaming agreement

Two of the UK's leading WiFi hotspot suppliers have signed a roaming agreement that will allow their subscribers to use each others' networks. Users will have equal access to BT Openzone's 1,500 hotspots and Broadreach Networks' 350 access points across the UK, in locations as diverse as BAA Airports, Hilton Hotels, Travelodge, Ramada Jarvis Hotels, railway stations, Virgin Megastores, McDonald's flagship and drive-thru restaurants, PC World stores, Little Chefs and Moto and RoadChef service stations. As a result of this and other similar agreements, Openzone subscribers now have use of some 7,800 hotspots nationwide. ...more

Intel announces final AGP 3.0 spec, to carry graphical load

The significance of the AGP 3.0 spec, newly announced by Intel, relates to the handling of throughput for intensive graphical apps. Dealing with the graphics bus that runs from a graphics card to a processor, the specification handles a doubling of bandwidth for improved processing of digital effects. ...more

A Choice of Bagles in new wave of worm attacks

Security specialist Sophos has issued a warning about two very similar versions of the Bagle virus, just hours after the original 'Bagle' expired. The company says it has received many reports of these files infecting machines in the wild. The two new variants - dubbed Bagle-F and Bagle-G - are both email worms which transmit themselves via their own SMTP engine to addresses held on the infected machine's hard disk. ...more