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Articles Posted on 11 March 2008

SOURCE Boston - Be There!

SOURCE Boston - Be There!

News Security

We are frantically preparing for the SOURCE Boston conference which starts tomorrow morning. You can keep track of the happenings via Twitter. It’s pretty interesting how this Twitter thing is taking off. I will try to...


Fox News loses domain name fights after late trade mark filing

Fox News loses domain name fights after late trade mark filing

News Security

Fox News Network has failed to win control over a domain name that is almost identical to one of its television station names because it did not register its trade marks early enough.Fox News, the cable television news channel of...


Gammadyne Mailer 32.0

Gammadyne Mailer 32.0

News Security

It can do much more than just send email. Gammadyne Mailer can automatically manage the mailing list by processing sign-up, opt-out, and bounce-back email. Of course, there are powerful tools for maintaining the list manually as...


iPhone aspires to be a Treo?

iPhone aspires to be a Treo?

News Consumer

The palmOne Treo 600 was a breakthrough handset when launched.   With a great screen and a vast range of third party software, it was the smartphone to beat, especially in the US. There were of course a number of problems....


Voice over IP on the iPhone? You have to be kidding...

Voice over IP on the iPhone? You have to be kidding...

News Hardware

I was amused to hear that Apple is committing to allowing third-party developers to freely create Internet telephony applications for the popular iPhone handset.This move is almost certainly designed to appease the potential...


Comcast may be hit by FCC judgement

Comcast may be hit by FCC judgement

News Security

It's looking like Comcast, one of the main ISPs in the US that is accused of throttling file-sharing users' Internet transmissions, will be hit by a regulatory ruling from the FCC.According to newswire reports, the cable ISP may...


UK IT spending bucks downward trend; defies predictions

UK IT spending bucks downward trend; defies predictions

News Hardware

A new report, the Benchmark of IT spending 2008, by the National Computing Centre underlined the healthy growth in IT spending expected to happen in 2008, which defies the current trend of spending cuts and growing faster than...


We7 gets Sony BMG blessing for free music

We7 gets Sony BMG blessing for free music

News Consumer

Sony BMG Music entertainment, one of the big major music labels, has agreed to partner with We7, an online service which wants to stream music to UK listeners for free and receive a cut of advertising, a concept that has been...


Identity theft cloud hangs over 5,000 MTV employees

Identity theft cloud hangs over 5,000 MTV employees

News Security

Details of around 5,000 of MTV Networks' staff, including their names, dates of birth, social security numbers and even their salaries, have been compromised, the firm's parent company, Viacom, has revealed. As news of the...


Firefox 3 Beta 4 Web browser : More than a pretty (inter)face

Firefox 3 Beta 4 Web browser : More than a pretty (inter)face

News Software

Mozilla released the fourth Firefox 3 beta update, roughly one month after the third one was released. Nearly 1000 additional improvements have been carried out, most of them insignificant but still useful; it was however the...


Too many downloads could push the Internet beyond its limits

Too many downloads could push the Internet beyond its limits

News Security

The BBC iPlayer was a surprising boon for avid soap and life documentary lovers but it has proved to be a real headache and a potential catastrophic cocktail for many Internet service providers; the equivalent of a virtual...


Walmart ends Linux Computer experiment, cites users' lack of interest

Walmart ends Linux Computer experiment, cites users' lack of interest

News Software

Walmart collaboration with Everex, at least when it come to the Green gPC, came to an abrupt end as a Walmart spokeswoman claimed that the gPC did not attract enough attention from the Walmart customers. Back in October 2007,...


Government ID card met with barrage of criticism

Government ID card met with barrage of criticism

News Security

A number of organisations have criticised the recent UK government's move to relaunch the National ID card scheme.People working at sensitive locations like Airports, Power Stations or the London Olympic sites will be the first...


Google, what's going on? Share price tumble continues

Google, what's going on? Share price tumble continues

News Mobile & Telco

There's something going on at Google. The company shares have been falling like there's no end. In the past four months; Google share prices have fallen from $747.24 to $413.62, a drop of more than 42 percent. Google recently...


Orange catches up with competition, updates Business Everywhere mobile broadband

Orange catches up with competition, updates Business Everywhere mobile broadband

News Hardware

Orange has updated its Wireless Mobile Broadband Business offer to match the competition Business Everywhere, its flagship offering, now offers "unlimited" and "daily unlimited" usage allowance, something that...


Official : Bigger computer monitors make you more productive

Official : Bigger computer monitors make you more productive

News Software

A research team from the University of Utah (as reported by the Wall Street Journal) tested people working on mundane computer-bound tasks - like editing a text document, working on a spreadsheet and surfing the internet - and...


Wireless

Wireless

News Hardware

The term wireless is normally used to refer to any type of electrical or electronic operation which is accomplished without the use of a "hard wired" connection. Wireless communication is the transfer of information...


HANNSG HI221D 22-inch TFT - £139.99

HANNSG HI221D 22-inch TFT - £139.99

News Consumer

Equipped for the high definition age this digital monitor has a DVI port that's HDCP compliant, making it an essential for Windows Vista users.A rapid video response time on the HannsG widescreen HI221D TFT monitor ensures you...


Gateway MT3107b Laptop - £234.99

Gateway MT3107b Laptop - £234.99

News Software

We've managed to bring you a wide range of Gateway laptop PCs at incredible prices.These are factory-refurbished models, but they're retail boxed and include a guarantee that's more genereous than most new laptops come with- a...


The cost of security: 7 years of spending by the DHS

The cost of security: 7 years of spending by the DHS

News Security

There’s an interesting paper out by Veronique De Rugy of George Mason University, with some disturbing statistics as to how much money we’re spending right now as a nation on security. This does not included DOD...


Google wins Commission approval, closes DoubleClick deal

Google wins Commission approval, closes DoubleClick deal

News Hardware

Google's acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick has been passed by European competition regulators and has been completed. The deal had already been passed by competition authorities in the US.The European Commission...


Secure USB drives

Secure USB drives

News Hardware

USB flash drives are very small, very portable, very convenient -- and very easy to lose. In fact, the question to ask these days isn't how to avoid losing your flash drive, but how to make sure your data is safe when you do. As...


EU threatens US with new WTO action over online gambling

EU threatens US with new WTO action over online gambling

News Mobile & Telco

The US government is under investigation by the European Commission over claims that its internet gambling ban discriminates against EU companies. The Commission has threatened to take a case against the US to the WTO.The...


Privacy watchdog investigates Phorm

Privacy watchdog investigates Phorm

News Security

Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner is investigating advertising technology company Phorm over a deal it has cut with the UK's top internet service providers.The deal allows ISPs a cut of ad revenue in return for...

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