Tesco Mobile to get a taste of Apple’s iPhone

Tesco Mobile has announced today it will stock Apple’s iPhone 3G and 3GS.

Illegal downloaders crackdown: Digital Economy Bill to cut them off

Internet users who illegally download copyrighted content could have their connection cut off as part of the Digital Economy Bill unveiled on Friday. The bill – a major overhaul of the UK’s technology legislation – will mean ISPs must send notices to those customers suspected of infringing copyright. They must also hold a record of how many notifications a customer has received and give this data to rights holders.

Arrested: Suspected Zeus Trojan distributors

The Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit arrested two people earlier this month for the suspected criminal distribution of the Zeus Trojan. A spokesman for the Met Police told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Thursday that the man and woman were arrested on 3 November, but have been released on bail and not yet been formally charged.

T-Mobile workers accused over customer record sales

T-Mobile employees have been accused of selling millions of customer records and could face prosecution by the UK’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Intel and AMD bury the hatchet with $1.25bn deal

All outstanding legal disputes between Intel and AMD have been settled, and the companies have signed a five-year cross-licensing deal. The settlement, announced yesterday, ends antitrust litigation against Intel in which the chip giant was accused of alleged anti-competitive practices towards AMD.

Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul

The European Parliament and Council of Telecoms Ministers have reached a compromise over the rights of internet users continent-wide, setting Europe on course for a major overhaul of telecoms regulations. The Telecoms Reform package, which consists of a set of new laws tackling subjects ranging from data breach notifications to faster number porting, will become law in every EU country by May 2011, it was agreed on Wednesday night.

Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government

Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said. Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to use surveillance to investigate crimes such as terrorism – but councils have attracted criticism for using them to detect petty offences such as dog-fouling

‘Incompetent’: Watchdog’s verdict on prisoner database

Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure. Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the programme that was designed to implement a single database between the Prison Service and the National Probation Service: “Even we were surprised by the extent of the failure of C-Nomis”, adding: “there was not even a minimum level of competence in the planning and execution of this project”.

Hackers breach Guardian Jobs site

The Guardian Jobs site has suffered a hack that could have exposed the sensitive data of some users. Personal details included in users’ job applications may have been accessed by the hackers, according to an email sent to affected users by Guardian Jobs on Saturday.

‘Cross-border shopping must be made easier’

The EC has called for cross-border online shopping to be simplified, following research that found six out of 10 shoppers attempting cross-country purchases had their transactions blocked. The European Commission’s research found language and regulation barriers, and lack of trust to blame for the blocked transactions.