Articles Posted on 20 February 2008
Switching Broadband a bigger headache than switching energy suppliers
News Hardware
In a follow up to BroadbandChoices.co.uk findings that a third of consumers are scared of making the broadband switch, new research has reviled that concerns are justified. Nearly a half of respondents have found the switching...
HP announces another set of Record Earnings
News Hardware
Computer giant, HP, has been bullish about its short term future as its earnings rose by 38 percent on the back of some surprising overseas results. While the US consumer market is undeniably undergoing through some bad times, HP...
Russian Business Network running a protection racket - report
News Security
I was amused to hear that the lads (and lasses) over at that bastion of legitimacy, the Russian Business Network, are allegedly running an extortion racket, preying on `borderline' sites.Well, strike me down with an unfair BT...
MasterCard expanding PayPass relentlessly
News Security
Hard on the heels of my story yesterday about Visa PayWave and its security shortcomings, it appears that MasterCard has been hard at work on the public relations front when it comes to promoting its version of the wireless...
The Great Intel vs AMD debate
News Hardware
With e-procurement fast becoming the tool of choice for buyers looking for best practice, it is the application of these tools and information they provide in relation to market categories and their issues that will deliver long...
The World's fastest 14" notebook for only £798.77
News Software
The Znote 6224W is a machine for professional and gaming use, featuring an UltraCrisp screen and optimal performance in the form of the latest technology. On top of this, the Znote 6224W boasts sublime battery times and the...
Data wiping protection mechanism comes to laptop
News Security
Techworld writes about a new data protection system that can automatically delete data on a computer which has been physically removed from a set location.The solution, called Backstopp, works as a hosted service which monitors a...
Dell Poweredge SC1430, £569+VAT and delivery
News Hardware
The PowerEdge SC1430 is a general-purpose two-socket tower server that brings value - price/performance, expandability and ease of deployment to small and medium businesses.The Dell SC1430 is perfect for businesses with little or...
BBC's controversial plans to sell series on iTunes
News Mobile & Telco
BBC has announced that it will sell some of its more popular programmes on iTunes for as little as £1.89 per episode in the UK, almost twice the price you would pay for downloading a BBC show off Amazon's Unbox service. ...
Consumer group irate about Software Licences
News Software
The UK's National Consumer Council wants the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the End User Licence Agreements or EULAs from a number of software companies. The NCC scrutinised EULAs from 25 software packages and said that...
UK businesses too busy to think about environment issues
News Hardware
Results carried out by YouGov on behalf of energy company E.on show that UK businesses are too busy to be green as bleak economic conditions are having a negative impact on companies' efforts to save energy and reduce their...
BBC iPlayer more popular than ever
News Security
In the first 50 days of operation, more than 17 million programmes have been watched or downloaded via the BBC's iPlayer according to Reuters (via the Guardian). That's more than 14,000 programmes per hour and the service has...
H2O Networks hails dark fibre as the answer to UK’s bandwidth issues
News Hardware
The ever increasing popularity of social networking websites and services such as TV and video over the web is contributing heavily to the UK’s bandwidth problems. A North West-based company, H2O Networks is hailing dark...
BBC working on a next generation P2P platform
News Consumer
An intriguing post on BBC's Internet Blog reveals that the corporation is embarking on another grand project. The corporation is joining forces with 21 partners across Europe - including other broadcasters, universities, content...
Duke University deploys the world's largest 802.11n wireless network
News Hardware
Cisco announced that Duke University will deploy the next phase of its mobility transformation by deploying an expansive next-generation 802.11n wireless network across its campus, featuring more than 2,500 Cisco access points --...
Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit
News Mobile & Telco
At the 2008 Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit, you'll find business and IT strategies to inspire you to new ways of working, confirm your own best practices and discover new ways to develop business opportunities....
Data recovery
News Security
Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted or inaccessible primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media formats such as hard...
Glacial Power 550W PSU
News Mobile & Telco
Glacialpower was kind enough to send over their 550W power supply, the GP-PS550BP. With an intelligent and silent design, it should provide great performance with some peace and quiet. I'll crack open the PSU to take a look...
ASUS 3870 vs. Gigabyte 3870 Video cards
News Hardware
There’s no doubt that AMD has been doing quite well with its Radeon 3870 series and that’s for good reason – they offer excellent performance for the dollar and have widespread availability. It is the first GPU...
Awasu 2.3.3 Alpha 2
News Security
Awasu is a RSS client that lets you monitor news from thousands of web sites and blogs around the world. Unlike other RSS clients, it has a powerful plugin architecture that allows you to monitor absolutely anything at all, even...
SLAX 6.0.0
News Software
SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and uses Unification File System,...
Mobile makers locked in patent spat
News Security
Mobile device makers Motorola and Research In Motion (RIM) are locked in a legal deadlock over patents for their technologies. Each says the other is using its patents without permission. RIM makes the popular Blackberry mobile...
Investigation finds no evidence of front running
News Security
A committee of the body responsible for the internet's addressing system has found no evidence of front running, a form of deceptive domain name acquisition.Front running has long been rumoured to be in operation by unscrupulous...
