Home secretary Theresa May has promised to rush through legislation that will consign identity cards and the intrusive ID card scheme to history within 100 days. However, ID cards for non-British citizens will remain in place. There are 215,000 such cards in circulation, and these were distributed to immigrants with a right to remain in [...]

Cyber criminals are targeting charities in their efforts to con people out of cash. The Salvation Army’s CIO, Martyn Croft, told Computing that not only do fraudsters create false charity web sites, they use charity sites to test stolen credit card numbers. Croft explained that it is particularly important for charities to treat people’s personal [...]

BTs competitors are fuming over the likely result of a consultation launched by UK communications regulator Ofcom into how BTs pension fund deficit could affect wholesale charges to ISPs. The consultation was launched in December. Network infrastructure arm Openreach charges ISPs for wholesale services, which allows them to use the BT infrastructure to reach their [...]

Youre recent for your flight. Traffic is terrible. You fight your way from one side security. By the time you sit down on the plane, aggregate you want to do is wrap yourself in peace and peaceable. Man could face fine for talking on his cell phone during a Southwest flight. And then you hear [...]

Who knew the lightweight disposable sacks, which millions of shoppers use every day to lug home groceries and take-fully, could help states bring in much needed revenue. Starting next year, Seattle residents order pay for disposable bags at stores. At least, thats the sort of some policymakers have proposed. Only one US city Washington, D. [...]

Youre sometime since for your flight. Traffic is terrible. You fight your way from one side security. By the time you sit down on the plane, entirely you want to do is wrap yourself in peace and mild. Man could face fine for talking on his cell phone during a Southwest flight. And then you [...]

Google accused Vietnam on Wednesday of stifling political dissent with cyberattacks, the latest complaint by the internet giant against a communist regime following a public dispute with China over online censorship. Like China, Vietnam tightly controls the flow of information and has said it reserves the right to take “appropriate action” against Web sites it [...]

British IT stable Computacenter expects a first-half increase in profit of more than 10 per cent. Its growth has been spurred by its success in providing acute-margin services, while product sales were subdued. Last year, Computacenter recorded a pre-charge profit of £18.2m for the first half. The stable’s first-half revenue has now grown by seven [...]

Facing one Oct. 11 deadline that would have discontinued service for its BlackBerry devices, Research In Motion this week reached some accord with the United Arab Emirates that will prevent the smartphones from going blindness next week. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the threatened ban would hold impacted more than 500,000 BlackBerry users in the [...]

Four Senate Democrats have asked the Federal Trade Commission to develop guidelines governing the way social networking sites can use information submitted by users. A letter sent to the FTC on Sunday by Sen. Charles Schumer D-N. Y. and also signed Sen. Mark Begich D-Alaska, Sen. Michael Bennet D-Colo, and Sen. Al Franken D-Minn expresses [...]