Wanted: dead or alive

A website is offering a $25,000 (?17,000) bounty on a malicious hacker who shutdown its website for two days. Online auction website BidBay is putting up the bounty for information leading to the conviction of the hacker who caused the damage. The company believes that it was not the target of the attack as the intruders did an aggressive port-scan that rendered the service unavailable. ...more

CeBIT 2007: Europe opts out of RFID regulation

According to the EU Commissioner, Viviane Reding, the European Commission has opted not to regulate RFID or 'smart radio' tags. Commissioner Reding, the head of the EU's Information Society and Media directorate, said that the technology must be 'allowed to grow'. She added that there are around one billion RFID tags in use worldwide today, but the Commission expects over 500 times as many tags by 2016. ...more

Roll up, roll up for the $1,500 keyboard

It's not often a new keyboard attracts widespread attention - then again, it's not often a new keyboard costs $1,500. However, the Russian company behind the much-hyped and long-awaited Optimus Maximus keyboard is about to start taking pre-orders from computer owners with more money than sense. The Art Lebeved keyboard justifies its extravagant price tag by placing a small OLPC display behind each of the 113 keys. ...more

MSN 8 launches in the UK

MSN premium subscription service, MSN 8, launches in the UK today The service is offered on a two-month free trial, after which it costs ?6.99 a month or ?59.99 annually. ...more

Mozilla halts regression

Mozilla has released a minor update to its eponymous Internet software suite. The 1.7. ...more