NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, introduced a new HDMI 1.3 receiver chip, the TDA19978HL, which improves the audio and video performances and lowers the costs of high-definition (HD) audio/video...

Qualcomm faces another possible ban from the lucrative US market after Nokia asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the company. Some Qualcomm products are already banned for import by the ITC.Earlier this...

I didn't realise it, but there's a kind of self-destruct mechanism built into the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP). Basically, if you hack around with the PSP's innards and/or operating system without knowing what you're doing, it...

This interview was recorded at the FIRST Security Conference back in June 2007. Ben Chai meets with Lord Toby Harris of Haringey. Lord Toby Harris was made a Life Peer in June 1998. He is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary...

After almost a year spent publicly warning large retailers of the need to comply with the draconian security requirements of PCI DSS, it seems that Visa is starting to back down from its Sept. 30 deadline.Visa's problem is that...

July saw a massive jump in online retail, with sales rising 80% on last year to a new all-time high, according to e-tail industry body IMRG. The organisation's research indicates that UK online retail sales exceeded £4 billion in...

UPDATED: The Conservative Party has put forward proposals to reform the Data Protection Act to end what it calls "the huge regulatory burden" it places on businesses. But the figures used to justify the changes have been...

In case you hadn't noticed, a growing number of IT companies have moved their customer support lines to 0845 and 0870 numbers in recent years, mainly because they get a rake-off of between 0.5 and 2.5p a minute - depending on the...

Jacket Micro Devices, Inc. (JMD), a worldwide supplier of integrated RF modules for high performance wireless products, has received patent approval for new methods of fabricating three-dimensional (3-D) all-organic interconnect...

Earlier this month, I wrote about how our friends over Network Instruments had started a blog. Their specialty is packet capturing and analysis, and their blog is starting to look pretty good.A recent blog post highlighted...

Should you monitor your employees' emails? What steps should be undertaken? What are the limits of email monitoring? All those questions are answered in this easy-to-read guide entitled "Email Monitoring in the Workplace : A...

Veteran tester Andreas Marx has done another major test of antivirus engines, and it’s worth taking a look at — notwithstanding the caveat that it’s only using the on-demand capabilities of the scanner (as opposed to real-time...

A man has been arrested in Australia on suspicion of filming The Simpsons Movie in a cinema on his mobile phone and uploading it to the internet. The unnamed 21-year-old from Sydney has been charged with copyright theft and could...