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Internet: "buy this domain or lose business"

It's not strictly a scam, but the techniques used by some businesses to persuade others to purchase domain names, often at vastly inflated prices, is becoming a serious nuisance. Why doesn't the domain name industry respond to scalping in the same way as the entertainment industry responds to ticket touts?



Infotech: when wow turns to WTF: do you care about Blackberry 10?

Were / are you an early adopter? Did/do you surf the wave of new products just because they were cool - or whatever the word was during the decades that "cool" was an uncool word? Did/d...

Internet: another bank fraud shows why Nominet is right

Another phishing attack on the customers of UK bank LloydsTSB shows why the UK's lead domain authority is right to seek strong powers and why those who oppose its plans are wrong.

InfoTech: Putin says Russia's government to migrate to OSS

Russian President Vladimir Putin is the latest political leader to say that his country's government will migrate all its computers to Linux and other open source software. The history of such de...

InfoTech: Steve Jobs dies.

Steve Jobs died yesterday after a long illness that blighted his last months. Our F1 man, who has never owned any Apple kit, delivers a mark of respect for a man who took on giants and won.

InfoTech: how governments embed software in the lives of citizens

With Apple now being, on some calculations, more cash rich than the entire US government and Microsoft being one of the world's biggest turnover companies, it is no surprise that the US Governmen...

InfoTech: big players eschew Apple Apps

Lots of apps do nothing much except be an "App." Like companies feel that failing to put a Facebook or Twitter link on their TV ads means they are unfashionable, failure to have an App...

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