Simon Aughton

News Acquisition of Infant Technologies is now complete.

News US Patent and Trademark Office allows new legal challenge to web patent.

News First man to be charged with aggravated identity theft under new US anti-spam laws.

News Microsoft and Apple leaders share the stage at The Wall Street Journal's D5 Executive Conference.

News End of Intel exclusive deal could see 10 per cent cost cut on Toshiba laptops.

News New disk offers less noise, power consumption and heat output than rivals.

News First products to carry the new certification badge expected to appear within the next month.

News A failure to properly secure company wireless network points allowed thieves to hack into its network and access key databases, claims Wall Street Journal report.

News Traffic shaping will result in as many as five per cent of Virgin's cable broadband having their downstream bandwidth halved during peak hours.

News Failure of the AACS copy protection system to stand up to hacker scrutiny has brought widespread criticism of the platform and the commercial group behind it, as well as continued threats of legal action against anyone reprinting details of how to hack it.

News BT's researchers are testing a system that can control a laptop without the need for a mouse, trackpad or keyboard.

News New toolkit verifies existing and new top-level domains, including future additions to DNS

News Michael Dell says that the direct model has been a revolution, but adds that it isn't a religion.

News Bolstered by PlayStation 3 and broader Hollywood support, Blu-ray corners 70 per cent of high-def movie market.

News In a bid to lure commuters away from the temptation of train travel, the Oxford-London coach service is offering free, 3G-based 1.4Mbps Wi-Fi connectivity.

News Customer contact details "illegally obtained" by unnamed individuals two years ago, according to former owners.

News The two companies have signed a patent licensing agreement that will enable IP use in current and future products.

News With the price of copper cabling going up in price, fibre optic is now cheaper to install in new buildings, claims chief engineer of BT Openreach.

News Boxed software at "end of era", according to financial analysts.

News BT announces a nine per cent reduction in wholesale prices as well as an extended rebate scheme.

News Another nail in the coffin of high-speed dial-up in the face of cheap and plentiful broadband availability.

News Typeface vendor Monotype urges companies holding and using unlicenced commercial fonts to audit and take action, or face legal bills.

News Six-year-old girl installs keylogger on MP's computer as part of a BBC investigation.

News As its market share continues to grow, Microsoft is threatened with new fines by the EU's competition commissioner

News Researchers bewildered at the complete lack of malicious code for Apple operating system.