Web Round-Up

People have always paid over the odds for a classy address, but Business Systems International has just sold a virtual address for £94,000 to an unnamed Texan company. London-based BSI bought the domain name business.com four years ago for just $100.

Nationwide has launched the UK’s first Web banking service at http://www.nationwide.co.uk. Account holders can check their balance, statements and transfer funds between accounts.

Apple is so confident of the security of its sites it has issued a challenge to hackers to break into one of its sites and alter the contents. The Hack-a-Mac competition is running at http://hack-a-mac.global.de. Successful hackers will win an Apple Power Book, however Apple hope that the exercise will prove that with a standard Apple Internet server and the MacOS server configuration customers will not require any further security devices.

For gamblers out there, the UK’s first professional tipster site has just gone on-line at http://www.isiris.co.uk.

According to Network News, Internet users are being offered £4.50 an hour to read junk-email. The scheme run by HTMail gives email users the chance to earn money every time they read an item of junk mail. Employers are concerned that their staff may moonlight for HTMail during office hours.