One of customer got in touch to report that BT customers are currently being locked into their BT Yahoo email service.A recent screengrab of a customer attempting to use this function seen by The Register reads: “Sorry the delete feature is currently unavailable. This feature will become available by the end of September."The customer said BT/Yahoo! had also made it impossible for BT customers to configure the forwarding of emails to a third party address from their BT Yahoo addresses.He said: "BT is being about as communicative as Trappist monks about this."He added: "BT refuse to acknowledge any contractual responsibilities to customers with regard to email as they see email as a freebie add-on to the broadband service."Other customers have also complained on BT's forum. One said: "Help! I have tried to delete email sub accounts but unable to do so. Any help and or advice will be greatly appreciated."Another complained: "It's October BTYahoo get it sorted or did you mean September 2020?"Apparently these problems also affect customers who have migrated to the new BTMail email provider Critical Path/Openwave.

A BT spokesman told The Register: “We apologise to customers who have been unable to delete their Yahoo! account. We are working quickly to sort this out and expect to have this fixed soon.” US trade watchdog the FTC has terminated second-hand electronics reseller Laptop & Desktop Repair in Sparks, Nevada – after the biz shafted people out of millions of dollars.The company, operating under such names as cashforiphones.com, cashforlaptops.com, ecyclebest.com, smartphonetraders.com and sell-your-cell.com, offered online quotes for used smartphones and laptops.Once the quote had been calculated, people sent in their hardware for assessment and were given a much lower revised quote – typically between 3 and 10 per cent of the original amount offered.They had three to five days to request that their hardware be returned, but the FTC found that the company seldom answered its phones and was closed on weekends, even though the firm counted Saturdays and Sundays in its time limits."This is a classic case of bait-and-switch updated for the 21st century," said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection."The defendants in this case lure consumers with false promises of generous payments, then hold consumers hostage once they have mailed their devices to the company."After an investigation by the FTC and the US state of Georgia, the biz has now been shut down and had its assets seized. The FTC said it had received thousands of complaints about the firm, which kind of makes you wonder what took them so long.

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A pair of cybercriminals responsible for laundering millions of pounds stolen using a banking trojan have been sentenced to a combined total of 12 years in prison.Pavel Gincota, 32, and Ion Turcan, 35, are Moldovan nationals with Romanian citizenship. The duo made over £2.5m in criminal profits using the banking trojan Dridex, the National Crime Agency and London's Metropolitan Police Service revealed.The pair were charged with conspiracy to possess false identification and conspiracy to launder money, while Gincota was also charged with a separate money laundering offence in relation to a cyber fraud in Germany in 2012, in which the victim lost €25,000.Gincota and Turcan pleaded guilty to all of the charges against them and were sentenced yesterday at the Old Bailey to five years and eight months and seven years respectively.Over two years the pair “funded a luxury lifestyle” with their ill-gotten gains, garnered from more than 220 bank accounts which they had accessed after infecting their victims' machines.According to Court News UK (behind paywall), the investigation into the pair began in June 2015 "after more than half a million pounds was stolen from a medical research company and laundered through a series of Barclays accounts".

They were reportedly already under investigation by the National Crime Agency when they were arrested by the Met in February 2015 for being in possession of multiple false identity documents. During a search of their home in Yiewsley, West Drayton, the cops seized further fraudulent documents and several electronic devices.Forensic examination of these devices by the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) confirmed that a laptop belonging to Gincota had been used to control the bank accounts through which the money was laundered.Steve Brown, senior investigating officer at the NCCU, said: “Pavel Gincota and Ion Turcan were serial money launderers who processed millions of pounds worth of stolen money through hundreds of bank accounts to fund their lifestyles.“Those involved in the most serious types of organised crime depend on the services provided by money launderers like Gincota and Turcan to hide their criminal profits."He continued: “The NCA will continue to work closely with our partners to prevent organised criminals from accessing the proceeds of their crimes and to bring them to justice.”

Google today announced new phones, VR kit and home gadgetry. But it didn't announce a tablet. And nobody cared.We've known for ages that tablet sales are declining. The most recent tablet sales data we've covered has the market at about 150m units a year. Apple has a quarter of the market and Samsung has about 15 per cent. Vendors in third through fifth place – Lenovo, Huawei and Amazon – won't sell ten million units a year.The tablet market's sliding even faster than the PC market – by about 12 per cent a year compared to five per cent for PCs.We can also see that it takes more and more effort to get a tablet off the shelf: Apple has teamed with Deloitte to point out how an iPad might make sense at work, having already allied itself with IBM. Microsoft, meanwhile, has bundled training with its Surface-as-a-service pay-by-the-month plan for its hybrid laptop/fondleslab Surface products. Those hybrids, by the way, are considered the sole bright spot in the PC market.

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And now Google's act of omission shows us that the company's assault on our personal space does not include a frontline role for a tablet computer.Which is not to say that tablets are doomed. They are clearly very handy devices in many applications. But the lack of a Google tab clearly shows us the fondleslab's not a core component of the evolving connected home. And that their omission won't be mourned. Roundtable On the afternoon of Oct 12, in central London, we’ll be gathering a select group of senior IT leaders together to discuss the changing nature of end user computing.We'll kic off by exploring the digital workplace of the future and the likely shift from devices to users and infrastructure. We’ll touch on the realities of making the shift happen - not just the technology to create a modern and open environment, but also how to manage all the stakeholders and budgets.Fundamentally we'll explore how the increasingly heterogeneous world of multiple operating systems, devices and clouds are changing the way we think about end user computing.It promises to be both a lively and useful discussion. If you'd like to join us, please register your interest here and we'll be in touch to confirm your attendance.A French man has been charged after he stormed into an Apple store and smashed up iPhones and MacBooks using a metal ball that is more commonly used for the traditional game of pétanque.

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