Hard-up Hollywood bemoans selfish file-sharers
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Microsoft to bundle own anti-virus protection?
Microsoft has admitted it must overcome a reputation for poor security in its products if it is to successfully move into the anti-virus market.
The company acquired R...
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PayPal bans payments for porn on eBay
PayPal, the payment service eBay purchased for $1.5bn (?935m) in October, this month has published its revised policy on processing payment for adult material.
The Ap...
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Server sales grow 10 per cent in 2003
Computer manufacturers saw unit sales of servers jump by just over 10 per cent worldwide during the first quarter, according to a new report from market researcher Gartne...
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Skills Survey 2003: Women in IT - are they getting a rough deal?
This year'sSkills Survey has thrown up a number of surprising results, including many that have merely confirmed our suspicions, but one area where it was difficult to ma...
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Sting and Britney take a swing at file-sharing
Madonna, Britney Spears and Sting are fronting the record industry's latest assault on illegal music downloading in a series of television commercials.
This latest att...
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Autonomy shares fall on profit warning
Autonomy shares dropped almost 37 per cent this morning after the UK software firm halved second quarter earning estimates blaming an "unexpected weakness" in European ma...
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Nokia rubbished by analysts
Merrill Lynch has slashed its forecasts for Nokia's handset sales a day before the Finnish phone giant gives its mid-quarter performance update.
The US investment bank...
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Mixed day for Deutsche Telekom
Rumours of Deutsche Telekom having to sell Voicestream, its GSM mobile network in the US, are less widespread today following results which show it was profitable last qu...
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Adobe turning cartwheels over results
Adobe has put Wall Street's finest in their place by reporting profits of $49.8m - or 20 cents per share - for the quarter ending 1 March.
Although the company beat an...
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Telcos shrug off Nasdaq drop
While the US enjoys its Presidents' Day holiday, European markets this morning traded flat in the wake of Nasdaq's sharp fall on Friday.
Both IBM and Nvidia last week ...
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IBM encounters accounting difficulties
Questions have been raised about IBM's accounting practices after it was discovered that the sale of a $340m (?237m) optical business unit was not declared an extraordina...
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BT Cellnet still dawdling in the data doldrums
Data sales failed to add a sparkle to BT Cellnet's results today as the group reported slow growth in customer numbers and subscriber revenue.
BT Cellnet, the UK opera...
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Those were the days: The BBC Micro remembered
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World's highest-earning ASP files for Chapter 11
USI, once hyped as the world's highest-earning ASP, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a bid to gain new investment from former white knight VC company Bai...
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For sale: dot-com MD, potential wife, good condition, ?250,000
An internet entrepreneur is so desperate for a husband (or possibly publicity) that she's auctioning herself on eBay - and her modest reserve price is a cool quarter of a...
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The Geek: may he rest in peace...
Net users are more sociable, more community minded, better educated, more trusting and more religious than their offline cousins, dispelling once (and hopefully for all) ...
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USi saved from the abyss
USi, once hailed as the world's highest earning ASP, has emerged from a cash crisis to secure a new $100m investment deal.
The company has negotiated a letter of inten...
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Tech tycoons dominate thirtysomething rich list
Despite the doom and gloom in the technology sector young and upwardly mobile tech tycoons still top the list of the highest earners.
A Fortune survey published yester...
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SMS spammers set to blitz footie fans
Football fans signing up with UK websites for results updates are about to be hit by a massive spam-overload on their mobile phones.
Almost 11 million fans have subscr...
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Show-off' hackers to get busy this weekend
Companies are bracing themselves for a rise in denial of service attacks (DoS) this weekend as annual hacker event Defcon kicks off.
The ninth hackerfest, hosted in La...
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BT and One2One take 3G complaints to court
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World's highest earning ASP axes staff
Research house IDC has just singled out USinternetworking as the world's biggest earning ASP, but the company is still implementing $35m cost cuts.
First quarter reven...
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Ariba and i2: The B2B love affair is over
Ariba and Rightworks produce similar technology.
i2 partnered with Ariba and IBM last March in a major B2B alliance. A total of $90m was spent on advertising the pact,...
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Verticalnet results dash profitability hopes
Losses increased to $28.5m - 32 cents a share. While the loss is down on third quarter results of $29.9m, it did not meet analysts fourth quarter predictions of 19 cents ...
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Losses worsen for Lastminute.com
However, its number of registered users has increased slightly to just under 2.9m, and its cash burn has been reduced. Lastminute's share price was this morning up 6.55 p...
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Mighty Microsoft turns for the worse and Sprint falls foul of the law
The software giant blamed a slow global economy for a downturn in both software sales and online advertising. Wall Street analysts had hoped to see earnings of around 49 ...
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SEC goes easy on accountants' consulting practices
The intense negotiations between the regulator and four of the top five accounting firms broke down on Monday, but resumed on Tuesday ahead of an agreement announced yest...
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Evolving e-marketplaces face ASP showdown
They claim the e-marketplace concept is currently poorly understood by businesses, and therefore the potential to use it as to sell services rather than products is being...
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Web mortgage company favours IT contractors
Internet mortgage company, Charcolonline, has launched a service specifically designed for IT contractors.
It features more than 200 mortgage deals targeting IT contra...
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