Nine arrests in iPhone scam

Nine people have been arrested over a global scam to use fraudulently bought mobiles to call premium phone numbers, reveals The BBC.

City of London Police seized iPhones, mobiles, SIM and bankcards and passports in raids in London, Southend, Walsall, Birmingham and Middlesbrough.

The gang set up premium lines based overseas and used SIM cards from the iPhones and other devices to call them, leaving providers to settle huge bills.

A business consultant is seeking a court order forcing Google to turn over the names of YouTube viewers who called her a whore and posted unauthorised videos of her, writes The Register.

Carla Franklin, a former model and actress and a 2008 graduate of Columbia Business School in New York, petitioned a state court to unmask the individuals she says impugned her sexual mores in anonymous accounts on a Columbia Web site. Someone also posted clips on YouTube that showed her in a small-budget independent movie. According to NYDailyNews.com, YouTube users “JoeBloom08”, “JimmyJean008” and “greyspector09” posted the allegedly malicious and untrue statements and video.

At time of writing, the account for JoeBloom08 was “closed” with no explanation. Those belonging to the other two users remained accessible, but they didn't make any videos available. Pages showing the offending video weren't immediately visible, either.

A Pennsylvania school that was caught secretly snapping photos of students via laptop Web cams will not face criminal charges in the case, reports News.com.com.

Triggered by complaints and a civil suit by Harriton High School student Blake Robbins in February that he was photographed at home without his knowledge, the FBI and local officials began an investigation to determine if the Lower Merion School District illegally misused the Web cams.

But federal and local prosecutors looking into the incident were unable to prove criminal intent on the part of school employees and, therefore, could not prosecute the case, according to US attorney Zane Memeger.

The NHS is about to begin trials of a pill containing a digestible microchip which reacts to stomach fluids, says Computing.co.uk.

The pill sends a message to a sensor in a sticking plaster on the patient's shoulder. If this message is not received, the sensor sends a text message to the patient to remind them to take their medication.

The shoulder-mounted sensor is also able to monitor the patient's heart rate, and whether they sit up frequently while sleeping; an indication of fluid in the lungs, itself a potential side-effect of heart-failure.