30 January – Five Stories You Need to Read

CNetNews.com reports that “[p]hishing attacks have outnumbered e-mails infected with viruses and Trojan horse programs for the first time, according to security experts.”

According to another CNetNews.com story, "[a] month after IBM sued Platform Solutions Inc. for breaching its contract and infringing patents, PSI has filed a countersuit that denies the charges and accuses Big Blue of abusing a monopoly in mainframe servers.”

CNetNews.com also writes that “Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced on Tuesday that it has reached a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the controversial embedding of antipiracy software its CDs without users’ knowledge.”

On BusinessWeek.com, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks about the prospects for his new operating system, the tech industry, and his future after Microsoft.

Finally, the International Herald Tribune points out that “[a] group of high-powered, international chief executives on Monday singled out China and Russia as the worst offenders in global piracy and blamed public indifference in those countries for much of the problem.”