Silicon reports there could be some good news for those of us who dread battling through the crowds to complete their Christmas shopping - the high streets could be a good deal quieter than usual this year.Instead of swarms of...

Computing reports that November was the worst month for malware since records began in the mid-1980s, according to antivirus firm Sophos.The company detected 1,940 new pieces of malware in the past month, and has seen a 48 per...

One of the hottest topics that IT departments will be dealing with this forthcoming year will be the migration from cable to cable-less. Wireless has been touted as the next frontier. Freedom, accessibility, cost reduction and...

Poor old Sony, it just can’t seem to shake its digital rights management woes.Unless you’ve recently become a hermit, you can’t fail to have missed the controversy that surrounded Sony’s use of rootkit technology to disguise...

Immensely amusing to hear that eBay is `working' with Microsoft on stamping out pirate software sales on the Bay auction site.I mean - come on eBay. The auction site appears to be riddled with people selling counterfeit software....

Research in Motion's (RIM) Blackberry devices form part of the communication backbone of a number of big companies in the UK, US and around the world, with over 3.5 million users worldwide. The uphill patent battle RIM is facing...

I was in Chester last week and visited a coffee shop for a sandwich and cuppa (as one does). I was intrigued to see the girlies in the shop tapping in customer orders using a US WiFi PDA.I was even more amazed to see them swiping...

A few years ago Microsoft announced its Windows Server Roadmap to try and provide consistency and predictability for Windows customers to be able to plan their OS purchasing and adoption strategies. Essentially the roadmap...