Jeremy Kirk

The British government could soon roll ahead with plans to issue national ID cards after both houses of Parliament reached a compromise Wednesday night on a bill detailing the plan.

On the opening day of a closely watched court case in London on Wednesday, lawyers for The Beatles' record company accused Apple Computer Inc. of improperly using an apple logo to advertise its iTunes music store.

The U.K. tax agency is pushing forward with plans to compel businesses by 2010 to submit tax documents in a machine-readable format that reduces the manual, error-prone work involved in processing filings.

Microsoft Corp. will offer free and unlimited technical support to those who license its workgroup server protocols, its latest move to satisfy the European Commission that Microsoft is complying with the 2004 antitrust ruling against the company.

Only one per cent of U.K. companies use all methods available to control access to their IT systems and prevent security problems, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

IBM Corp. and Novell Inc. announced their support last month for an open-source project aimed at giving users more control over how information such as passwords and financial details are shared across multiple Web sites.

Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods are right around the corner, a danger so far overlooked by the industry's high interest in the technology.

Criminals appear to have hacked a Chinese bank's server and are using it to host phishing sites to steal personal data from customers of eBay Inc. and a major U.S. bank., according to Internet services company Netcraft Ltd.