IT PRO – Nokia and Yahoo team up on mobile email, maps and IM
Nokia and Yahoo will be working together on email, instant messaging, maps and navigation.

IT PRO – Cyber criminals charge just £6 for access to a botnet
New research has shown cyber criminals are renting out botnets for under £6 per hour.

SC Magazine – Becta is set to be abolished as part of spending cuts by Chancellor George Osborne

The schools technology quango Becta is set to be abolished as part of the Chancellor’s 6.5 billion spending cuts. The British Education Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) was charged with promoting the use of technology within education, but as part of a spending cut by Chancellor George Osborne is set to be abolished.

Computer Weekly – Sun founder hires Tony Blair

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to become a senior adviser to Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, online news site TechCrunch reports. Khosla Ventures was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he served as CEO and chairman in the early 1980s before joining venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.

Computing.co.uk – Social networking critical to employee satisfaction

Eight out of 10 employees claim that being trusted to manage their own time and the internet as they wish is more important than pay. Additionally, a fifth of employees would turn down a job if it did not allow them access to social networking sites or personal email during work time, according to a survey carried out by software specialists Clearswift

BBC – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledges easier privacy

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that Facebook “missed the mark” over recent privacy concerns. In a column in the Washington Post newspaper, he said the social network would soon make changes to users’ privacy options.