Foo Fighters record the most swapped track of the week

Having defended their decision to copy-protect the latest Foo Fighters album, executives at Sony BMG and its subsidiary RCA must be smarting at the news that the track Best Of You has topped a chart of the most swapped track in the past week. According to Big Champagne, an online media measurement company, the song was the most swapped 'rock active' track and the number two 'rock modern' track. It was also number seven overall. ...more

Yahoo!, Symantec team up to take on Microsoft

Symantec has introduced its much trailed online security software suite targeting home users. The surprise is that Symantec has chosen to do so in partnership with online portal Yahoo! Named, somewhat prosaicly, 'Norton Internet Security provided by Yahoo!', the new suite of online tools is aimed at countering Microsoft's recent OneCare Live security suite. As with OneCare Live, the suite comprises firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware as well as offering anti-spam tools to provide detection and blockage of keyboard loggers, personal data theft, viruses and unwanted adware. ...more

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft under fire in Washington

America's technology giants have 'enthusiastically volunteered for China's censorship brigade'. The heated remarks came during a hearing of the US House of Representatives international relations sub-committee in which some of the US's biggest Internet companies came under fire over their dealings in China. The major search engines Yahoo!, Google and MSN along with Internet hardware company Cisco have been asked by the Committee to explain their business practices in the People's Republic. ...more

UK online banks 'drag feet over security breach'

Four out of seven UK online banks have taken no action to close a security hole in their systems despite being warned of the dangers over a month ago. This has been revealed by a company called heise Security. Using a technique known as 'frame spoofing', heise Security inserts a fake page underneath a genuine bank page which looks identical to the real page. ...more

Belkin goes compact with MiniWireless Optical Mouse

These days, you associate Belkin with wireless networking. But the components company has today launched a new mouse in the UK. A wireless mouse, nonetheless: the MiniWireless Optical Mouse. ...more