Web entrepreneur commits perfect cybercrime

A Seattle-based web entrepreneur has achieved the perfect political cybercrime, without breaking any laws. Newsvine.com chief executive and co-founder Mike Davidson's perfect hack was the result of what you might call a social engineering tactic in that it involved the use of one of his free templates. ...more

Seventeen hurt in iBook riot

Seventeen people were hurt in a 'stampede' to buy discounted iBooks in the US. Henrico County school system in Virginia was selling 1,000 used laptops for $50, sparking what witnesses described as a 'riot' as an estimated 5,500 potential buyers were knocked to the floor, beaten with chairs and nearly getting run over. A girl's buggy was crushed in the chaos The Associated Press reports that one woman even wet herself rather than lose her place in the queue. ...more

99 cent Napster 2 is US only

The relaunched Napster will only be available in the US, though no-one will be particularly surprised by that. However, the fact that arguably the best-known online music brand has been unable to secure international rights to the music is sells suggests that the exporting of similar US-only services, such as Apple's iTunes Music Store (iTMS), is still some way off. Napster 2. ...more

New Mozilla beta released

The latest version version of the Mozilla open source Web browser is now available. Mozilla 1.4b incorporates just a few changes from its predecessor, including: the ability to specify 'blank page', 'home page' or 'last page visited' for each of first window, new window and new tab; the ability to specify default font, size and colour for HTML mail compose; and more flexible image blocking and disabling with 'view image' option to see blocked or not loaded images. ...more

Announcement of PC Pro competition winner

The winner of the Visual Studio.NET competition is.. ...more