Sun simplifies Web services for consumer devices

Sun announces a Web Services Pack for developers targeting mobile and small client devices. Targeting devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, set-top boxes and residential gateways, the new pack represents a bundling of the Forte for Java wireless toolkit together with Java blueprints and APIs from a new specification dealing with Web services for small devices. Sun has highlighted the progress of this specification - a certain 'JSR # 172'. ...more

Billy Bragg sings the praise of MySpace reversal

Billy Bragg has praised MySpace's decision to change its terms and conditions, after he withdrew his music from the site. The singer-songwriter was concerned that the T&Cs gave MySpace complete rights over any music that had been uploaded to the website. Previously MySpace claimed a 'non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license' for all its content. ...more

Internet scams - the FBI view

A newly released FBI report analyses the prevalence and impact of Internet-based frauds on American life in 2001. At the top of the charts, by far, was Internet auction fraud, comprising 43 per cent of all referred complaints. The simple non-delivery of merchandise (or payments) accounted for 20 per cent of these complaints. ...more

In this transaction I trust

Increasingly, Web-based services will take over our life. Microsoft is hoping to bolster our confidence that such transactions can be managed securely. Microsoft has signed up VeriSign to strengthen the security basis of its . ...more

Freeserve package cheaper than BT and AOL

Freeserve has undercut both BT and AOL with its new unmetered package, Anytime. Under the scheme, Freeserve customers can use the Internet at peak and off-peak hours for ?12.99 a month. ...more