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Windows Threatened By Embarked Linux OS On Motherboards
Asus has brokered a deal with DeviceVM to include embedded Linux Operating System on Asus motherboards as from next month
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Packet sniffers used to lift payment card data
Interesting to read that high-tech fraudsters used packet sniffing technology to lift payment card data from eleven Dave & Buster's restaurant locations across the US over the last year.
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
RS Components ripped off for 18 grand
If you're an IT veteran like yours truly, it's likely you'll have ordered electronic goodies from RS Components in Nuneaton, but it seems that one of the mail order store's employees has been lifting stuff and flogging it on eBay.
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Podcast : The Cloud'y future of Wireless Broadband
Ben Chai chats with Owen Gedden about The Cloud, Europe's largest European Wireless Provider, and the future of Wireless Broadband in General
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Podcasts
Google Translate adds 10 more languages to its sets
Search engine Google has added 10 new languages to its free translation service bringing it to a whopping 23-language offering (ed : that's more than 500 language pairs) and has also added a "detect language" option
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Gold'en Rant : Dell - cheap, but don't take their word as gospel
Steve sticks a pin in a virtual voodoo doll of Michael Dell, whose sales staff in India tell different stories, depending on who you speak to. Oh, and the prices seem to change, also depending on which division you're dealing with...
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Flash Player 10 contains Adobe's Advanced Content P2P Plans
Adobe could become one of the biggest content distributors overnight thanks to its newly released Flash 10 player which contains some very interesting P2P features including the ability to save files locally
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Vodafone moves in Mobile Social networking with ZYB acquisition
UK-based Network Operator Vodafone has completed the acquisition of ZYB, a Denmark-based privately owned company which started life as an online contact book management tool but quickly evolved into a mobile social network service
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Microsoft wins : OLPC XO laptop adopts Windows XP
Microsoft has announced that it has reached an agreement to get Windows XP running on the One Lapotp Per Child XO laptop
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Dixons plans radical turnaround plans in a bid to save business
Hundreds of jobs could be on the line as DSG, who own Currys.Digital and the PC World brands, has presented plans to boost its profitability by shuttering 77 under performing Currys.Digital stores
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
O2's joint announcement means 3G iPhone is behind the door
Apple and Telefonica, O2's parent company, will have a joint announcement in the next few weeks according to O2 Telefonica Europe boss Matthew Key
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Illegal music download, a major issue as record labels suffer from piracy
The increasing popularity of legal download websites such as Apple's iTunes and Tesco's Digital store has not slowed down the negative impact of illegal downloads on the music industry
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Wall-to-Wall touchscreens to invade homes and offices, says Gates
Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates, disclosed his vision of the future during a speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit called "The Next Wave of Technology"
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
BT adds 94,000 new customers to its Vision service
Telecoms company BT has added 94,000 new customers to its Television service in the first three months of 2008 according to figures released yesterday in its quarterly results report
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
A virtual desktop is a term used, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which a computer's desktop environment is expanded through the use of software
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary
Unbranded Aluminium USB2.0 Flash Drives, 8GB for £16.72
Sooner or later, 99% of computer users will own one of these devices for transporting data, MP3s, photos, office documents etc.
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Tech Deals
Dymo Cardscan Executive 800 Silver, £184.99
CardScan Executive features a desktop card scanner and full-featured contact management software, ideal for the power user.
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Tech Deals
Internet re-broadcaster predicts rapid growth
Controversial online television re-broadcaster Zattoo.com says that it will have five million users across Europe by the end of the year, more than doubling its size in the next six months
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Legal IT
Location, location, location… even in Business Continuity
When selecting a recovery site, careful consideration should be given to its location. In particular, the distance from the live site is important
FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Dolly Parton gets angry with Howard Stern
An interesting row has broken out in the US between Dolly Parton - she of the large chesticules - and radio shock jock Howard Stern, who has a show on a channel with the Sirius satellite radio service.
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
An interesting twist on PC infections
In an interesting hacking case, a 22-year-old Nigerian man has been given 18 months by the Lagos state high court after attempting to woo a NASA employee in the US in a bid to infect her computer.
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Intel Atom to power larger, more powerful Apple iPhone v3?
Rumours, Arguments, Denials and Counterarguments have been whizzing around in the past few hours over a quote from a senior Intel executive about the apparent use of Intel's low power Atom processor in a future iPhone
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
3G iPhone to come with onboard TV and Video Conferencing?
Swiss newspaper Le Matin broke the news of a TV-enabled 3G iPhone last week but it took nearly one week before it was reported in English speaking papers
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Ask Acquires Knowledge Websites
Search engine Ask.com has announced that it will buy the Lexicon Publishing Group which owns a number of knowledge websites like Dictionary.com, thesaurus.com and reference.com
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
Samsung to quit laptop business if it fails to triple its size by 2011
Samsung has acknowledge that its notebook division is in dire state and is considering stopping manufacturing laptops within three years if it fails to triple its market share to 11 million laptops per year
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News
LiMo Initiative Gathers Pace As Firms Flock To Android Competitor
A number of high profile tech companies have put their weight behind a Linux-based mobile platform that is set to compete with the Google Android team
THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News