Tens of thousands of fraudulent e-mails have been sent out ahead of Sunday's tax return deadline, officials say.

HMRC is expecting a massive upsurge in such correspondence following the 31 January deadline when many people will be waiting to hear about genuine tax refunds.

For the iPad, however, Apple is betting that the snappy interface, as demonstrated in this CNET video, will more than compensate for the lack of multitasking.

"Consumers want to do multiple things at the same time: listen to music while browsing the Web, look for directions while looking at your calendar and talking with your friends, and so on," he said in response to an e-mail query.

Tigers on the farms are kept in cages and are also allowed to chase cows or chickens for the amusement of the paying public.

According to her research, farm tigresses produce cubs at about three times or more their natural rate, bearing up to three litters a year. Cubs are often taken away from their mothers before they are properly weaned.

"The part [of the farm] which people rarely see is basically a winery in which the skeletons of grown tigers are cleaned and put into vats of wine," says Ms Mills.

Many took to Twitter, Facebook, and tech blogs, including here at CNET, to voice dissatisfaction with everything from the size, the price, the specs, and the content available, to the usage model.

Many serious lovers of technology sound disappointed that Apple did not surpass or even meet the outsized expectations they placed on this new device.

It's not a laptop and it's not a phone or a music player. So what is it, and how exactly will they explain it to potential buyers?

While the court eventually did (much to many people's surprise) say that copyright holders do need to take fair use into account, it's not really clear what sort of punishment there is for those who do not.

Given how massive the damage awards can be for simple (even incidental or accidental) copyright infringement, the fact that there is barely any real punishment for bogus copyright claims seems incredibly one-sided and unfair.

More than 150 people have approached consumer publication Which? Computing claiming to have been wrongly targeted in crackdowns on illegal file-sharing.

Andrew Crossley, of ACS:Law, said that some cases had been dropped although he declined to give numbers.

Some are already in the process of going to court, he told BBC News, although the majority of the accused settle out of court.

The Web site of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy group, was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted 16 hours starting Saturday afternoon, the group said in an e-mailed statement on Monday.

Google this month said it had been hit by cyberattacks from China partly aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

"Paypal has as of 23rd of January 2010 frozen WikiLeaks assets. This is the second time that this happens. The last time we struggled for more than half a year to resolve this issue. By working with the respected and recognized German foundation Wau Holland Stiftung we tried to avoid this from happening again - apparently without avail."

Your Nexus One will not be so charmed by the vigor of your tongue. It will, dare I utter the word when referring to a product from the newly emancipated Google, censor you.

Every time they said something naughty into the phone, the naughty word came out as "####"--and not just "f---." It even censored the "S" part of BS.

"We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent," Google told Reuters.

According to this view of the world, the music business has now tried its hand at being "innovative" and "customer focused."

IFPI admits that only 15 percent of European Internet users even engage in piracy at all, and it further admits that many of these users purchase music, but it still claims that piracy is the "fundamental problem."

As for what's selling, these are the major labels, so the top 10 singles are pretty execrable stuff unless you like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, or songs with titles like "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" and "Boom Boom Pow."