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,... 

David Cameron plans to water down security of tenure for new social housing tenants. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters More than half of Liberal Democrat MPs, including two cabinet members and eight junior ministers, are on record as opposing plans by David Cameron to water down security of... 

Tomkins shareholders have approved a ‘miserable’ £2.9bn bid for the British engineering company, which includes the motor and industrial parts group Gates. Photograph: Nicolas Loran/Getty Images So much for David Cumming’s prediction that Tomkins’ shareholders would reject... 

Armando Iannucci, right, directs Tom Hollander as Simon and Chris Addison as Toby in In the Loop. Photograph: Nicola Dove/imagenet When the government announced it was shutting down the UK Film Council, the inevitable cries of horror from the creative industry were not amateur protests from...