The UK capital for mobile thefts is... Glasgow

Almost a third of Glaswegians have been a victim of mobile phone theft, according to new research from insurer CPP. The city has been named the mobile phone theft capital of the UK, with almost a third (31 per cent) of Glaswegians claiming they've been a victim of theft. Mobile phone users are already aware that they need to try and protect themselves against theft, but those heading for certain cities need to be even more cautious, according to new research from insurer CPP. ...more

Microsoft site felled by denial of service attack

Microsoft has said its Web sites were down for 100 minutes on Friday due to a Denial of Service attack. It said that the attack had no 'association with any known vulnerability in Microsoft software' and the its Web sites are back up and running. It described the attack as 'a malicious flood of site requests that results in exponentially higher-than-normal traffic, and overwhelms the server capacity'. ...more

Million Dollar Homepage facing extortion

It may have been that the criminal fraternity thought this was just too easy a way of making money - tantamount to robbery. But the boy with the million dollar homepage has been hit by extortion attempts and denial of service attacks. 21-year-old Alex Tew's money-spinning brainwave of selling adverts on a web page by the pixel, and at a dollar a dot, finally made the magic million earlier this month, earning him a lot a publicity. ...more

World Cup fever in your Palm

Here's a noteworthy freebie for all Palm-owning soccer fans. PalmOS-based handheld owners can get hold of TinyStocks' WCup 2002 for free and keep up to date with the latest games. Look up which games are played on which days and what games are played at each of the 20 stadiums. ...more

IBM to map the human brain

Using its most powerful computer, IBM along with the Swiss-based Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) are setting out on a project which will one day map out the entire human brain. Known inevitably as the Blue Brain Project, researchers from both organisations plan to work together to map out the human neocortex. This area is thought to be the most complex and evolutionarily advanced part of the brain and is only found in mammals and is most developed in human beings. ...more