Freedom2Surf throws the book at users

Freedom2surf is offering two free downloadable audio books to all its broadband customers, who will be able to choose from 10,000 audiobooks, language lessons and radio programmes. The Audible.com titles can be downloaded straight on to a user's Mac or PC and then burned to a CD or transferred to an MP3 player. ...more

FileMaker in the Palm of your hand

FileMaker has released a FileMaker Mobile Companion for PalmOS. Users of the best-selling database program can now bi-directionally transfer and synchronize files between their desktop and palmtop computers. FileMaker Mobile allows users to select and load the data they require from the desktop machine onto their PalmOS handheld. ...more

New NetSky strain let loose on the wires

And still the worms and viruses come. This time, a new variant of the Netsky worm thrives on PIF files. Following in the wake last week of Bizex and MyDoom variants, there have already been warning about Bagle-F and G worms today. ...more

Bloglines inks deal with parcel carriers to track deliveries

Search engine Ask Jeeves has added a new raft of features to its Bloglines service. Users are now able to access the service to track the progress of their deliveries from the world's biggest courier services. Among the companies included in the parcel tracking service are FedEx, UPS, and the US Postal Service. ...more

German duo gaoled over trojan dialler

Two men jailed for their part in infecting 100,000 computers with trojan that dialled premium rate numbers Two German men who infected more than 100,000 computers with a trojan that generated profits exceeding €12 million have been jailed. A court in Osnabr?ck, north-eastern Germany, sentenced one of the men to four years in jail, and the other to a 39 month sentence, for their part in a criminal scheme that installed innocent users' PCs with a trojan that dialled premium rate 0190 phone numbers to contact an adult website. The men, aged 31 and 35 years old, amassed their substantial illegal profits from the premium rate phone calls made via the modems of infected PCs between July 2002 and September 2003. ...more