The House of Lords Committee investigating personal Internet security were a few weeks told that child protection should be made a priority in the National Policing Plan and Internet safety should become a key component of the...

A publishing firm fell foul of the law by using unlicensed typefaces worth £80,000, according to licensing lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The publishing firm had claimed to be using just one font but in fact...

The Register reports that banks and retailers in the United States and Canada have begun to report an increasing amount of illicit transactions thought to be linked to the server breach announced last week by the TJX Companies,...

Alex Watson-Jackson, Product Manager, Exponential-e, talks about Mesh Networks for Enterprise Applications. From the "Future Networks & Infrastructure" Theatre, IP06 Event, Earls Court London, 17th & 18th October 2006....

YouTube has blocked a small company from making YouTube videos available on mobile phones. The action came just days after YouTube announced its own mobile deal with US mobile phone operator Verizon.TinyTube used to encode...

According to research by a leading psychologist, the 22nd of January was what has been called Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year. This is thanks to a combination of miserable weather, debts accumulated from...

Early versions of Vista that yours truly has seen - and installed - so far have been fairly impressive, except for the fact that they hog the available system resources something rotten.Now IOBit reckons it has solved the...

Capacity optimization technologies are similar to data compression technologies, but they look for redundancy of very large sequences of bytes across very large comparison windows.Typically using cryptographic hash functions as...

Firstly, with the right equipment, your wireless data transmissions can be intercepted in the same manner that a radio receiver can be tuned into radio station broadcasts. If your wireless network doesn’t use encryption, an...

SageTV, LLC, a leading developer of PVR, Media Center and Placeshifting software solutions, today announced support for AMD's recently announced AMD LIVE! Home Cinema and Home Media Server consumer electronics platform designs. ...

The adoption of industrial device networking is increasing because it provides the ability to interactively access, evaluate and utilise data from networked equipment via a LAN or the Internet. Industry analysts expect the use of...

An article in BusinessWeek about the adware cash cow:…Edelman shows how ads purchased for placement on Yahoo and partner sites by companies such as Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC ) were also redistributed until they showed up as...

Rejecting a legal challenge from the UK, the European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), a centre of expertise for Member States and EU Institutions, was...

I pulled out of Ecademy.com a long time ago, sick of the unsolicited pestering that came with membership of the business networking site. The Register reports that it recently became the target of a Nigerian '419' bank fraud...

IT security vendor Sophos has warned punters about the need to run up- to-date IT security software on their PCs after it emerged over the weekend that TomTom is shipping versions of GO 910 satnav systems that have been infected...

When a key piece of data changes in the enterprise, one must first treat this new data like a query (i.e., what does this new data mean in relation to what the enterprise already knows). And if new data is not treated first like...