In an embarrassing leak, Facebook has been shamed for hiring top public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to spread anti-Google stories around the internet. Burson encouraged several influential bloggers to comment on Google’s privacy invasion, and even... More...
Be careful your product lives up to what you advertise it to be and be careful it does what you say it will do; that's the lesson that many tech companies are learning the hard... More...
The servers of OiNK.cd - one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers - are raided and the admin, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, is arrested. The British and the Dutch police both contributed to... More...
The Association for the Copyright of Computer Software, an anti-piracy consortium based in Japan, announced that the owner of popular Japanese video-game website Gameonline was arrested today by police in the city of Fukuoka on... More...
Big banks conned big time in dodgy loan and credit card applications Six fraudsters were jailed for a total of 15 years after the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) uncovered their... More...
Scottish engineering company Norson Services has been fined £12,000 for using unlicensed software following an anonymous tip-off. The company is the latest in a string of high-profile names, including House of Fraser and... More...
Telstra (the largest Australian telco) has confessed that a ZDNet Australia survey which questions whether the telco's Internet service provides value for money was rigged by someone within its ranks, just days after its ramped... More...