German police and customs officials raided over 50 exhibitors at the CeBIT technology trade fair in Hanover because of alleged patent infringements. Over half of the exhibitors raided were from China or Taiwan.Hanover police told...

I was quite pleased to hear that the BBC - fresh from launching its iPlayer TV program streaming service the other month - has started beta testing the iPlayer for the Apple iPhone and iTouch.I've been playing with the iTouch...

The Web site of the Annual Weblog awards - aka the Bloggies - was hacked late last week.According to newswire report, the hack appears to have been timed to coincide with the Bloggies award ceremony taking place at the South By...

ZDNet and Tweaktown report that Microsoft has grand plans for solid state memory devices both stand-alone and integrated ones. The company wants Windows users to carry their settings around with them using what Microsoft calls a...

Asus CEO, Jerry Chen, exposed some future plans about the EEE laptop to Joanna Stern of Laptop Magazine. In a nutshell, the EEE looks set to go upmarket and target better known names. As we wrote in February, household names...

33% of small to medium sized enterprises in the UK leave their back-up tapes in the office at the end of the day, negating the benefit of backing up their servers, according to a new research report entitled ‘Risky...

The Schrödinger project has announced that it has made available the world's first high performance implementation of Dirac. Dirac is a royalty-free video codec created by BBC Research & Innovation and is the first...

My hopes for CeBIT were dashed; Nokia launched a couple of mid series and network branded handsets, but not a new range of E series business devices.  Never mind, Apple came through with the goods so we have something to...

The seven hundred page Stern Report spells out the consequences of carbon emissions upon the ailing environment: floods from rising sea levels are set to potentially displace up to 100 million people as 1 in 6 people will become...

IBM could finally make Microsoft pay for all the health and wealth damage; think Lotus Smartsuite and OS/2. In a smart move, IBM has teamed up with Austrian and Polish computer builders to supply the rapidly-growing East...

If you hold a credit card issued in the past 18 months, or use a touchless keycard to open doors at your office, or ride the subway with a reusable fare card, chances are good that you have used a card or ticket with a tiny...

Trend Micro Incorporated announced its message archiving solution designed to help companies archive with accessibility and encryption, reduce email management costs, and protect and preserve the integrity of their electronic...

Apple is not shy when it comes to stating its iPhone software Roadmap for the next few months; it even displays it on its front page. The Cupertino-based company will go after the business market with a complete solution to...

Recycling is an area where the environmental issue is championed and a few quid can be saved. An estimated 1.5 million computers are buried in landfill sites every year. Memory can be re-deployed, and printer cartridges, hard...

Microsoft will be releasing four security updates for all Office Business suites since 2000 tomorrow, Tuesday 11th March, both for the Windows and Mac platforms. The security updates will take care of four vulnerabilities which...

Shuttle recently announced that the newly launched $199 KPC will feature the Foresight Linux operating system. The KPC features an Intel Celeron 420 processor with 512MB memory and a 80GB hard disk drive and unlike many cheap...

Just a bit of irony that I got today from my colleague Juha Kauppinen. Macvirus.org, a website dedicated to “keeping an eye on Mac viruses”, has had their discussion forums seeded with vast amounts of forum spam...

Enterprise Architecture plays a key role in an organization's competitive advantage - but it's a new game, with new rules. It needs to be more integrated with the business. It needs to be more flexible.It needs to incorporate...

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (Asus) is a Taiwan-based company that produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, notebook computers, servers, networking products, mobile phones, computer cases, computer...

One of the 2008 forecasts in the annual Lustratus look ahead is that SOA decision-marking has become fractured in most companies, with clashes between architects / IT who 'get it', and business-oriented budget holders who...

Bigpockets sells this TV Tuner for only £23.99. Note that it is an Analog tuner.This is the business when it comes to tv tuner capture devices. It has a great philips tv tuner which supports tv broadcasts up to 158...

The Dynamode SW240010-R switches provide dedicated fast "data pipes" on every switched port. These switches are ideal for direct 100 Mbps speed access to application Servers.In Duplex Mode, workstations can access...

As Logitech releases a new set every year, we are generally very impressed with pretty much all of them -- what makes it truly interesting is that, despite the fact that they are 'just' keyboards and mice, Logitech still manages...