Sooner or later, 99% of computer users will own one of these devices for transporting data, MP3s, photos, office documents etc. These days you'll see a lot of people carrying one everywhere on their keyring. Big Maggot sells...

While the term gaming relates to game (any of a number of structured activities), it usually implies participation in particular kinds of games.As used in the gamer subculture, the term can refer to participation in activities...

Irish digital rights activists have said that reported Irish Government plans to keep records of electronic communications are being introduced without adequate public notice or consultation.The Government is said to be about to...

X-stock, a Dell refurbisher and reseller, is selling this magnificent Dell Precision 490 workstation for only £1345+VAT.That's compared to more than £3000 at Dell.The workstation is fitted with TWO Xeon DUAL CORE 5130...

One of the forecasts in the Lustratus predictions for 2008 Insight, available free of charge from the Lustratus web store, deals with the emergence and adoption of mashups. At this moment it is unlcear how fast mashups will be...

Mobile phone network 3 has been refused permission to force its rivals to disclose emails and documents in a process that would have cost each of them £200,000. The High Court ruled that 3's requests were not specific...

Payload is IRC.Backdoor.Trojan (VT results here).

Dark Reading reported that "Data on 3M UK Drivers 'Lost in Iowa'." "In May this year, Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd, a private contractor to the Driving Standards Agency, informed the agency that a hard disk...

A laptop stolen in Birmingham late on the 9th of January 2008 is said to contain the personal data of 600,000 people who have joined or expressed an interest in joining the Royal Navy, the Marines and the Air Force. The Ministry...

A new online business contracts portal has been launched last week to provide thousand of UK-based companies with the opportunity to grab a piece of the London Olympics 2012 contract market.20,000 contracts, worth a collective...

Ekinoderm writes in "Who did Kill the Software Engineer?" that schools today are ruining software engineering by teaching people Java. He references Joel Spolsky's rant on the same. I agree completely, except neither...

Paidcontent reports that Nokia and Facebook might be heading for a cosy alliance which will see the mobile handset manufacturer integrate Facebook's tool into thousands if not millions of handsets, a move not unlike Apple's...

More people are visiting O2 shops than ever before. Nic Fildes from The Independent reports that the iPhone Halo has caused the number of visitors paying a visit to O2 shops to increase threefold. Carphonewarehouse, the other...

Venerable Tech Company International Business Machine said on Friday that it will purchase the Toronto-Based, privately held Net Integration Technologies, a relatively unknown, Canadian company which makes a living out of selling...

The organisation that oversees the dot UK domain has announced that it will devote GBP 5 million to set up a foundation to foster research and development as well as educational initiatives in the UK internet industry. Nominet...

The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity, according to a poll conducted by Information security...

Nearly a year ago, someone submitted a request to Dell not to eliminate Windows XP just yet and by the 20th of January 2008, this request had gathered more than 26,000 votes which prompted Dell to continue selling Windows XP as...

A survey carried out amongst the Association of Teachers and Lecturers showed that nearly sixty percent of those interviewed considered plagiarism from the internet as a problem. The Internet has allowed an immense amount of...

A seemingly harmless link posted on Social News Website Reddit is to blame for a manoeuvre that caused the website of RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the pirates' nemesis, to go berserk. According to...

Yahoo is preparing for a massive headcount reduction as Silicon Alley insider, Techcrunch and a host of other blogs/news sources, reported that Yahoo will shed between 1500 and 2000 jobs - which represent between 12 and 16...

BT has unveiled a new range of more energy-efficient phones, heralding the start of a £2 million commitment to improve the energy efficiency of its entire home-phone range.   More than ninety per cent of the entire...

This easy-to-use tool adds 3D transitions and realistic, synchronized sound effects into your PowerPoint presentations with just 3 clicks. And, since is plugs directly into PowerPoint, you can add its audience- pleasing...

We're going to compare performance of two processors in combination with different memory modules: standard DDR2-800 and higher-clocked DDR3-1333. The Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor (1333 MHz FSB) will be tested with one and...