Only 100% legal erotic services allowed Craigslist's free-wheeling red-light district is about to get a lot tamer under strict new measures announced Thursday designed to rein in prostitution and other illegal services.… Full published article at: Read More »

Software revenue breakout - at last When the idea of making money from running an ad-funded social network was Silicon Valley's mantra, Sun Microsystems thought the future was guaranteed.… Full published article at: Read More »

Parliamentary reporter, Computing, Thursday 6 November 2008 at 15:45:00 But minister insists £7m budget "is not the end of the story" The government has rejected mounting criticism of the £7m budget for the new central e-crime unit to be set up within the Metropolitan Police. Home Office minister Alan Campbell said: "This is not the only unit that will be seeking to tackle fraud. The important thing is that the unit will be working with other police forces that have a funded capability." He added that the £7m "is not the end of the story". Campbell...Read More »

Bryan Glick, Computing, Thursday 6 November 2008 at 15:38:00 Staff at Manchester and London City airports to pilot controversial scheme Workers at Manchester and London City airports will be the first UK citizens to be issued with a national identity card next year, while the first UK ID cards will be introduced for foreign nationals on 25 November. The Home Office released the latest details of the controversial £5bn scheme today. Home secretary Jacqui Smith had previously announced that airport workers - considered to be in a sensitive enough role to require identity verification - would...Read More »

Trafficking for the union Two traffic engineers for the City of Los Angeles have admitted they illegally disrupted the computer system that controls traffic lights just prior to a 2006 union action related to contract negotiations with the city.… Full published article at: Read More »

15,000rpm Savvio Seagate has accelerated its Savvio 2.5-inch drive up to 15,000rpm and doubled its SAS speed, making it the fastest small form factor drive on the market.… Full published article at: Read More »

Brocade biting its ass? Here's something to cheer Mike Klayko, Brocade's CEO: network giant Cisco's storage revenues dropped 4 per cent year-on-year in its latest quarterly report. Cisco is playing a long game in storage and it looks as if Brocade is biting its ass.… Full published article at: Read More »

Republican rickrolling ruse Spammers have upped the ante in their bid to tap into interest created by the US presidential election this week to punt penis pills other assorted pharmaceutical tat.… Full published article at: Read More »

Tom Young, Computing, Thursday 6 November 2008 at 00:30:00 Tom Young talks to Ken Harvey, chief technology and services officer at HSBC, about the bank’s scheme to transfer all its systems to one platform HSBC recently united the roles of chief operating officer and chief information officer (CIO) into a single chief technology and services officer role. The move was the decision of chief executive Michael Geoghegan, and had the aim of putting technology at the forefront of the banking giant’s offering. The man who got the job was former CIO Ken...Read More »

Fake incomings to rescue you from disastrous dates iPhone users can now escape blind dates and boring business meetings thanks to a faked incoming call that urgently summons them elsewhere.… Full published article at: Read More »