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  • News: Opinion: hacking Apple TV

    We've only just seen the release of the Apple TV, Apple's media-streaming box, but hackers across the world have already been able to turn the £199 multimedia box into a fully fledged computer

  • News: New hack threatens routers & phones

    A security researcher at Juniper Networks says he plans to demonstrate a new class of attack that can be used to compromise electronic devices like routers or mobile phones.

  • News: Google founders earn $1 a year

    The three top executives at Google are also the lowest paid employees at the company, and they prefer it that way, according to a company filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • News: HP takes on PS3, Xbox and Wii

    Any lingering image of HP as a stodgy company was dispelled yesterday in San Francisco as the company called ‘Game On’ in its bid for a piece of the online gaming industry.

  • News: Ofcom rules could hobble UK VoIP

    Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony will be subject to stricter regulations that any other communications technology, service providers have warned.

  • News: Phishing foe fights web fraudsters

    Ben Jackson's goal is to stymie people who develop phishing sites - misleading websites designed to steal people's personal information.

  • News: Apple working on European iPhone launch

    Apple’s plans to release the iPhone in Europe have begun in earnest after the company started advertising for a senior executive to handle the iPhone’s European operations.

  • News: Unfair iTunes punishes music fans

    The European Commission's complaint against Apple and the major record labels over a possible violation of European rules on cross-border trade has served to highlight the inconsistencies in how music is released and priced online.

  • News: Google Desktop finally hits Macs

    Google has released a Mac version of its Google Desktop tool for the first time. Mac users already have a search tool with Apple’s Spotlight, but Google said its utility will work alongside the Mac OS X 10.4 feature perfectly.

  • News: Google hunts down runaway snake

    Employees at Google's New York offices can rest easier now that Kaiser, a 3-foot-long ball python, has been captured after disappearing from his tank on Sunday, a Google spokeswoman said yesterday.

  • News: Apple backed by DRM-free competitors

    While EMI's Monday event announcing the coming availability of DRM-free digital music focused on the iTunes Store, that won't be the only online service to benefit from the record label's new policy.

  • News: DRM-free iTunes to revolutionise music

    News of a pending announcement was buried among the April Fools Day fake stories on the techie Web sites. EMI, the world's third largest music company, and Apple were going to hold a joint press conference in London on April 2. It turned out that the press conference was real but there still may be a joke in here for someone.

  • News: AJAX poses Web 2.0 security threat

    Many web applications written using the popular AJAX programming technique are vulnerable to a JavaScript hijacking attack, security company Fortify Software has claimed.

  • News: European commission signs up to BT

    The European Commission’s directorate general for IT has signed a framework contract with BT for the supply and management of internet access services.

  • News: Skype offers cut-price phone sex

    Skype is slashing the price of premium-rate phone calls made via its broadband-based calling service. From now on, anyone using its VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service to dial a UK number with an 09 prefix will be able to do so for less than if they dialled from a standard analogue landline.

  • News: Virgin Media launches free digital TV

    Virgin Media is to offer customers 40 free-to-air channels and 25 digital radio stations through a set-top box. However, the service is limited to those who sign up to a Virgin Media broadband package.

  • News: UFO hacker loses extradition appeal

    A British hacker who broke into US military computers looking for evidence of UFOs lost another extradition appeal on Tuesday in London's High Court.

  • News: Apple sued over UK iTunes pricing

    The European Commission (EC) has charged Apple’s iTunes store and several big record companies with restrictive pricing practices in the European Union, a spokesman for the Commission confirmed today.

  • News: Porn promise crashes magazine's server

    An influx of curious men, eager to get a glimpse of Australian model Lara Bingle in the buff, crashed the GQ Germany website after it published nude photos of the popular model.

  • News: iTunes to reject DRM-free movies

    Apple chief executive Steve Jobs may be pushing for music labels to lift copyright protection on digital music but he doesn't appear so eager to do the same for video content, despite his position as the largest shareholder in Walt Disney.