Articles Posted on 22 February 2008
N-Gage highlights handset issues
News Mobile & Telco
With the soon to be released N-Gage platform, and research showing that the less than two year old N93 is still the graphic speedster, Nokia appears to have upset some customers.Many still swear by their older handsets but in...
Hackers wanted - must be multi-lingual
News Security
McAfee claims that criminal hacking gangs are raising their game by recruiting new coding specialists, but ones that can speak multiple languages.In a report released yesterday, the IT security vendor says that hackers are...
Microsoft pulls faulty Vista update
News Security
Interesting to see Microsoft nixing the current Vista set of updates following "a small number of customers" being affected by problems in "unique circumstances."Small number? Utter PR rubbish. Try looking at...
Laptops to be given away by Carphone Warehouse
News Hardware
Mobiletoday reports that Carphone Warehouse, the company behind TalkTalk and AOL broadband, is in talks with big laptop names to replicate the now accepted model of subsidised hardware. CW has apparently been holding talks with...
Microsoft going after Yahoo Engineers
News Security
News.com writes that Bill Gates, Microsoft's Chairman, really wants Yahoo for its engineers. This begs one question, why not poach them, the traditional way, rather than buying a company for $40 billion. In an interview given...
Will T-Mobile introduce unlimited calls plan?
News Hardware
Fixed Mobile Convergence services are slowly coming to the market; T-Mobile US has introduced a service called @home which allows you to use your mobile handset as your landline phone when you are in or very near to your house; a...
Microsoft cosies up with Open source movement
News Software
Interoperability is the keyword in yesterday's announcement as Microsoft has openly recognised the importance of working with other platforms and environments through four different principles : Open Connections to Microsoft...
Google pours money in the WINE
News Software
Google is pumping money into Codeweavers to accelerate development of Wine, in a move that looks to undermine Microsoft's stranglehold on desktop-bound applications. WiNE, like another open source product, GNU, is a recursive...
Belkin ADSL Modem with built in 125g Wireless Router, £34.99 delivered
News Hardware
Belkin networking offers this one-box solution that lets you share your ADSL Internet connection, files, and peripherals, without cables. It combines two essential networking functions in one innovative product-an ADSL Modem with...
Dell Vostro 400 desktop PC, £294 delivered
News Hardware
Dell Vostro desktops are built specifically for the unique needs of small businesses and are ready to be customized with the features and software you want.The Vostro 400 Mini Tower is a powerful, secure and reliable desktop...
Gartner Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit
News Hardware
Accelerating business processes through optimized communications. Voice and data communications are moving to IP networks at an astounding rate and with that accelerated migration, organizations like yours are grappling with the...
Social networking epidemic infects the young
News Business & Government
“Social networking swept through the internet-using population like flu during 2006-2007, but like any epidemic, it shows signs of falling back once all the most vulnerable targets have been infected,” says Tim...
Diamond Viper ATI HD 3850 PCIE 512MB GDDR3 Crossfire Review
News Mobile & Telco
A couple of years ago Diamond re-entered the graphics card market with graphics cards based on ATI (now AMD) hardware after their brand and assets were bought by a company called Best Data. Doc wrote an article on the Diamond...
E-mail spam
News Security
E-mail spam, also known as "bulk e-mail" or "junk e-mail," is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail.A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail...
Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.0 Beta 3
News Security
Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as...
Data Crow 3.1.30
News Security
Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself. Don't strain yourself in...
Red Hat legal argument on tenuous ground?
News Security
Readwriteweb has a story today on Red Hat sending a cease and desist letter to DataPortability.org over their use of an “infinity” logo.Here’s the DataPortability logo:And here’s the Fedora logo:Except I...
The hoax that just won't die
News Security
(Image credit: Gadgetell)There’s been a hoax for quite a while that Dell installs a hardware keylogger (Snopes entry here). Incredibly, Gadgettell just has picked it up, yet again (via Donna). One wonders.
XNA Everywhere
News Mobile & Telco
Today was the first keynote day. John Schappert of Microsoft took to the stage and told us where XNA is going. The answer is everywhere. The long awaited "YouTube for gamers" is taking shape, which will make it possible...
b-Envi Micro Case
News Mobile & Telco
Bgears has burst onto the case modder/enthusiast scene with some pretty innovative products. With the new b-Envi Small Form Factor (SFF) case, Bgears tosses its hat into the ring and wants to spar with the other manufacturers in...
Skype clocked 100 billion free minutes
News Mobile & Telco
Shortly before Skype got an award at the Global Mobile Awards 2008 in Barcelona for its innovative Skypephone, the Ebay-owned company announced that it managed to connect its users for a mind boggling 100 billion minutes since...
Windows Vista SP1 - slower than the original
News Security
Those readers unfortunate enough to be running Vista may have been tempted to download Service Pack 1 in the last week or so, but you may be more than a little disappointed.Early reports confirm previous comments that Vista SP1...
