Brown's claims branded 'ridiculous'

Gordon Brown has been accused of deliberately misleading the public by claiming that not retaining genetic profiles of innocent people on the National DNA Database would have led to 114 murderers getting away, reports The Register.

Genetics lobby group GeneWatch UK made the charge on Friday. It analysed a speech the prime minister made on 17 June where he argued for the retention of DNA profiles from thousands of charged suspects, including children, in criminal cases that never made it to trial or accused that were later found not guilty.

A Downing Street spokesperson said: "I think in this case, we'll have to let the prime minister's words speak for themselves. The figures he quoted were publicly available from 2006."

Talks about how to bring the iPhone to China have moved from hard-line negotiations to the logistics phase, says CNet.

During an interview at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs hinted to CNBC that Apple might soon add China to its list of countries where the iPhone will become available. But working out the details of exactly how that will happen hasn't been easy.

Now, talks with Chinese wireless carrier China Mobile have cleared their biggest hurdle: Apple's insistence on setting up a revenue-sharing agreement.

MySpace will open up its data portability project broadly on Thursday, after launching it with a handpicked set of partners last month, says ITWorld.

The MySpace Data Availability Initiative will become publicly available so that any Web site can participate. On Thursday, MySpace expects to release the data application programming interfaces and publish documentation on its developer site.

The initiative's goal is to let MySpace members share their public profile data outside of the walls of the social networking site. With this project, MySpace joins a number of Internet companies and industry groups in their pursuit of a data portability solution.

The author of a Trojan that broke new ground in botnet circles has agreed to plead guilty to secretly infecting thousands of victims' machines so that he could steal their personal data and launch attacks on Web sites, says The Register.

Jason Michael Milmont, 19, of Wyoming, admitted to creating the so-called Nugache Worm, a Trojan that spread through AOL instant messenger and modified Limewire installation programs.

Once clicked, the malware made unwitting users part of a botnet, which Milmont used to steal user names, passwords and account numbers of those who were infected.