Articles Posted on 11 February 2008
The Online Shadow Economy
News Security
Malware, meaning computer viruses, trojans and spyware, is about money. The teenagers who write viruses have grown up and now they’re trying to make money. The shadow internet economy is worth over $105 billion....
Online Social Networking : The Employer's Dilemma
News Security
The majority of employers permit employees to have reasonable personal use of the Internet during working hours. Employers have sought to minimise the risks that this personal use might present by introducing Acceptable Use...
Black Hat Europe takes place next month
News Security
Just got a flyer in my mailbox for the next Black Hat Europe conference, which is due to open in Amsterdam on March 25 for a four day run.As with the US event of a similar name, the European event promises to be an...
Sexual enhancement spam hits the roof in 2007
News Security
Annual figures just in from Marshal, the secure email specialist, claim to show that sexual enhancement spam - presumably encouraging Netters to buy Cialis, Viagra and similar pills - accounted for a third of all spam towards the...
Google unleashes Team aware Google Apps
News Mobile & Telco
Licensing issues, Piracy and Malware infestation could be a thing of the past if Google's latest version of its Apps gathers momentum and popularises Software as a Service. Google Apps senior product manager, Rajen Sheth, says...
Apache stems loss of web server marketshare
News Software
The latest Web server survey (for January 2008) carried out by Netcraft showed that Apache has managed to move above the 50 percent share of the web server market, it's lowest point for nearly a decade. Microsoft has enjoyed a...
Microsoft courts Nokia over Windows Mobile Smartphones
News Business & Government
Several websites have mentioned the possibility that Microsoft and Nokia would be working on a WIndows-based smartphone. PMP today has a picture of a Nokia N94i running what appears to be a Microsoft Windows Mobile OS. ITWire...
Microsoft bangs out 12 patches
News Security
Microsoft will release 12 patches on Tuesday, one of its biggest dispatches of complimentary codes, after issuing only two last month. Seven of these updates are deemed Critical with five falling under the important category. ...
OpenID consensus paves way for less password
News Security
IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have agreed to join in the corporate board of the OpenID foundation whose aim is to propose a "free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet";...
Yahoo! sets sight on AOL after rejecting Microsoft's offer
News Hardware
Microsoft might get much more than it bargained for. Not only has its unsolicited approach to Yahoo embolden the company and sent its shares up by 25 percent since the beginning of the year, it has also given Yahoo the necessary...
NEC and O2 trial femtocells in the UK
News Hardware
NEC Corporation today announced that NEC Europe, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is working with mobile operator Telefonica O2 Europe to deliver the UK's first live femtocell trial. O2 has begun an initial period of live testing...
IP Desk Phones Sold in 2008 to Create 47million kg of E-Waste
News Mobile & Telco
OnRelay, a UK telecommunications software company, today issued a wake up call for European businesses to reconsider their investment in redundant IP telephony hardware like desk phones. Calculating the real cost and waste...
Microsoft Launches new Office Live New Tools
News Business & Government
To help small businesses effectively market themselves and sell online, Microsoft Office Live Small Business launched new features and enhancements to its Web service. New features include Store Manager, an e-commerce tool to...
Salesforce has approached Oracle with a $9 billion tag
News Business & Government
Tom Forenski, a Former FT reporter and now editor at SiliconValleyWatcher, writes that Salesforce.com has made an unsolicited approach to Oracle with a $75 per share, which is 50 percent more than the closing price of $50.87 on...
BT Messes Up Again
News Mobile & Telco
BT has great ideas but seemingly don’t do their market research before launching some of them. And when they do have a disaster they appear to try very hard to have another one. In 1999 BT’s Onephone launched,...
Application Virtualisation : An Application for the 21st Century
News Hardware
Virtualisation - The Future of Your Desktop Applications Recently I was asked to examine a product called Software Virtualisation Solution (SVS) from Altiris together with an add-on product called DVS4SBC for use in the...
3D LCD Monitors review
News Software
Review Spring have a new article on 3D LCD Monitors (specifically the Sharp LL-151D) which are able to provide a real depth experience without the need for any 3D glasses. Imagine being able to play Crysis or Bioshock in real 3D!...
ECS GeForce7050M-M Motherboard on NVIDIA GeForce 7050 (Socket AM2) Chipset
News Hardware
It has been a while since we have tested the first board based on GeForce 7050 chipset from Biostar. Meanwhile, we have noticed the low interest of the other manufacturers towards this basically good, though a little late in...
P2P
News Security
P2PA peer-to-peer (or "P2P", or, rarely, "PtP") computer network uses diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants rather than conventional...
BusinessCards MX 3.8
News Security
BusinessCards MX software to design and print a professional business card. The interface of the program has been designed in such a way that even a beginning user will not have problems with using the program. The process of...
GSA Buchhalter 1.3
News Security
GSA Buchhalter is a software for all self-employed persons and small companies who do not need a double entry bookkeeping. The program is easy to use and is not overloaded with unnecessary functions. The application can manage...
HP Pavilion HDX9160ea, Dual Core laptop, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, HD DVD and 20-inch LCD screen, £1547.48
News Hardware
Wrapped up in HP's brand new Imprint pattern – "Dragon" – this sleek, powerful notebook offers a first class home theatre experience, high performance computing, HP's first 20.1-inch display and a stylish,...
HP LaserJet 1020 Printer for £44
News Hardware
The HP LaserJet 1020 Windows printer has been around for some time at much higher prices, but now that it's available for as little as £44 delivered to your doorstep, it's well worth considering as a partner or replacement...
