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News from Central Bank of India (a state-owned commercial bank), REV, a payment services provider and MasterCard raises the intriguing prospect of hundreds of millions of new payment card users.

The marketing is like a scene from a cheap horror movie. If the term "scareware" had not already been invented, it would be for this product. It's the kind of thing you want to hate, the kind of thing you hope you will never wish you h...

It's necessary to be careful in describing the "infringing" software that inspectors from a Malaysian ministry found on computers. The simple fact of finding the data may not be quite as clear cut as the representatives of software com...

In part II of this article, Nigel Morris-Cotterill looks at file-sharing and attempts to stop it.

Australia's third largest internet service provider, iiNet, is accused of wilfully facilitating the downloading of copyright material in a case brought in Federal Court by the entertainment industry pressure group Australian Federation Against C...

The United Nations says that international co-operation is the key to combating "cybercrime." But is it taking the correct approach?

We all suffer from it: when bandwidth is sucked up by those pesky filesharers and people watching broadband TV. And those who want to use the net...

When Babcock and Brown became one of the highest profile non-bank casualties of the credit crunch, the future of Eircom, the Republic of Ireland'...

eBay has sold most of its holding in Skype to a private equity firm, Silver Lake and other investors.

In what is being billed as a world first, a Dutch-based company has launched a search engine that allows access only to those sites approved as b...