Steve Jobs talks about Ping. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP Apple chief Steve Jobs’s trumpeting of the 160 million credit card holders on iTunes was a siren call to spammers. As if they needed any invitation. The most common incidence of scamming on Apple’s latest social venture, Ping, is the offering of free iPhones from a dodgy [...]

The new Samsung Galaxy Tab on show at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Samsung’s new Android-powered tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, has been well-received by industry analysts – even though full pricing details have still not been released. The Tab, launched at the IFA show in Berlin, is expected [...]

A still from a Virgin Media ad pushing the speed of its fibre-optic cable network Virgin Media has promised to publish its typical broadband speeds each month, as it publishes a survey suggesting that most customers find internet service providers’ advertisements misleading. Only 9% of respondents surveyed by ICM for Virgin Media think broadband advertising [...]