Romanian eBay scammers jailed

Three Romanian fraudsters who made at least ?300,000 by listing bogus auctions on eBay were jailed today. The three scammers set up an electronic scam ring, involving crime bosses in Romania, and are thought to have duped 3,000 victims around the world, Reuters reports. Nicolae Cretanu, 30, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment by Judge Duncan Matheson at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court. ...more

Hi-Grade hits the Gigahertz heights

Hi-Grade has announced two 1Ghz PIII notebooks: the UltiNote AS8400 and the Atlas/Hi-Grade Flyer 3400-1000. The former sports an internal CD-R/W and DVD-ROM combo drive. A TV-out socket, coupled with the S3 Savage MX 2x graphics chip, means you can plug it in to the telly once you get back from the office and use it as a standard DVD player. ...more

Price Check: Multifunction printers

The printer market has come in for some stiff competition over the last year, with Dell entering the fray. And with product refreshes kicking off in a month or so, it seems a good time to see what you can get for your money in the all-in-one printer arena. Right at the value end, as they say, we found a range of Lexmarks. ...more

RAZR wants a cut of iTunes action

First it was the ROKR, now the new RAZR V3i is Motorola's second iTunes-playing phone. iTunes playback aside the quad-band phone includes a 1.23 megapixel camera with a full screen view-finder, zoom, and video capture and playback, a mini-USB stereo headset, Bluetooth and Airplane mode, which disables the phone components but leaves iTunes operational. ...more

FTC uncovers seedy porn scam

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York attorney general have filed a lawsuit against dozens of porn websites, alleging that they illicitly billed customers for material that was offered for free. The suit, which names such dens of iniquity as Playgirl.com and Highsociety. ...more