The London-area Metropolitan Police Service has turned to some unlikely allies in the fight against Internet crime: cyberactivists who are taking action against online fraudsters.

As we reported back in May, and after months and months of speculation rumors of Apple's iPhone have turned out to be true, although UK customers will have to wait until next Christmas before they are likely to be able to get their hands on one.

Computer firm IBM made technological history on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer - the IBM 5150. Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory and it altered the way business was done forever and sparked a revolution in home computing.

One of the biggest security updates for more than a year is being released by Microsoft to fix 12 software flaws.

At the same time as information about the update was being released, Microsoft mentioned that it will not be able to patch Windows 98 and ME against a loophole discovered in April 2006.

Apple is investigating a newspaper report that staff in some of its Chinese iPod factories work long hours for low pay and in "slave" conditions.