I was interested to see that a group of anti-virus and anti-malware application companies are grouping together to develop a new set of standards to measure the efficiency of their software.There are a number of...

Statistics just in from SoftScan show that levels of spam are are at last falling from a massive high in December, but they are still - for January at least - around an astonishing 96.8 per cent of all email scanned by the...

Microsoft's stocks have been hit by a double whammy; the slow US economy and the non solicited offer the software giant made to Yahoo. The Redmond-based company lost 13.74 percent of its value in the past seven days, wiping off...

Microsoft has acquired 3D modelling software developer, Caligari, for an undisclosed sum. The company will become part of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Group once the transaction has been completed.Caligari was widely known for its...

Although Linkedin might be a better suitor for Plaxo, rumour has it (via Valleywag and Wired) that Google will cough around $200 million to get its grips on Plaxo. Earlier this year, Plaxo revealed to Techcrunch that it had...

Yahoo share prices crept up to $29.04 which is slightly more than what Microsoft would be offering per share through its combined offer of shares and cash, which is worth $28.80 at the time of writing. The Register rightly...

A decade old criminal organisation which was sourcing and distributing bootlegged version of Microsoft's flagship products has been finally dismantled several years after the first steps were taken to end the illicit commerce. ...

Microsoft launched a new version of Outlook 2007 which now includes a Business Contact Manager (BCM), an important step into making Outlook 2007 more than just a grown up Outlook Express. According to the marketing literature,...

Amazon has sent an email on Wednesday informing partnering merchants of its latest feature, the Product Ads which allows merchants to list products on Amazon and funnel consumers to their websites - as opposed to a traditional...

Reuters reports that Cambridge-based chip designer ARM will show a working prototype of a Google Android phone this Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The news was backed by Barry Schnitt, a Google...

2007 was the year when new tools and teams entered the market and traditional techniques evolved into stronger threats. This report summarizes the major security trends and developments for 2007, outlining the key issues that...

I was at a software developer conference earlier this week when I bumped into a couple of Windows developers who still code up material for the XP environment - a dying breed, believe you me. There's uproar in the development...

Over the last week there has been speculation that Software AG is the mysterious buyer. Software AG buying would make some sense in that it is inline with its vision of building a major integration company through...

Basically, this board is a complete analog of the 945P7AD-8EKRS2H model. It has an additional bonus in the form of an integrated graphics adapter thanks to i945G being used as northbridge instead of i945P. That is why we see no...

Asus's top of the line motherboards were released for the AM2 market as Crosshair and for the Socket 775 as the Striker motherboard under their Republic of Gamers label and the Asus gaming series. As you might know Nvidia...

Spirits are high for the Barcelona mobile fest.  With Apple laying down the benchmark for touch user interfaces in 2007 - Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Microsoft are going to have show the industry what hardware a decade’s...

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of...

GSA Cleandrive can help you to get rid of most of the privacy violations you get each day. It deletes all Internet traces (like the web sites you have visited), recently opened files (like your last played video files) or even...

Do not miss out on this SAMSUNG SM2032BW. It is very stylish, coming in a nice shiny black colour that will go in any room. At an affordable price this is a bargain well worth to consider. Laksys sells it for only...

Samsung does it again. Introducing the world's smallest and lightest color laser printer, the CLP-300N. This space-saving, easily movable printer delivers beautiful color at 4 ppm and sharp laser text at 17 ppm, along with the...