Articles Posted on 18 March 2008
Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 320GB HDD
News Hardware
Hard Disk technology keeps getting better and better; with the introduction of SATA we have seen hard disk speeds increase, and Native Command Queuing has also reduced the time it takes for hard disks to recover data on a drive...
What’s wrong with Tape Backup?
News Hardware
Most enterprises understand that the only way to ensure data protection and IT continuity in the face of disasters is to establish a remote recovery site a significant distance from main and branch offices. As a result, every...
Serious card fraud revealed at major US supermarket chain
News Security
A potentially major security breach has resulted in around 4.2 million credit and debit cardholders details being revealed in the US, with 1,800 fraud cases resulting so far, says Cyber-Ark. "The case is interesting, as it...
Security Concerns Call for Industry-Wide Standards, Sun Microsystems’s McNealy tells BCS
News Security
Common IT industry standards are increasingly likely as privacy and security concerns increase, says Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy in an exclusive interview with the British Computer Society (BCS). In the...
Security firm Trend Micro websites hijacked
News Security
Trend Micro fell victim to a widespread web attack that affected dozens of legitimate web sites since last week, although Google estimates that 20 million websites could have been hit by the vulnerability.A Trend Micro...
Get ready for the £50 Intel-based desktop PC
News Mobile & Telco
Last week, Intel revealed more about plans to release an ultra cheap, ultra small x86 platform called Network Aware Nettop. The Nettop has been dubbed a Basic PC by Intel and its price would range from $100 to $299 (roughly...
UK Unlimited Broadband to become a thing of the past
News Hardware
The BBC iPlayer has proved to be a real strain on Internet Service Provider networks and Plusnet, amongst others, has been very candid with regards to the fate of ISPs faced with growing costs and ever diminishing profit margins....
Where’s the backup?
News Security
We are told that after the children, the pets and the photographs the next thing we would save from an inferno is our mobile phone. Is this so we can call the fire brigade? Not really. Now our most endearing photographs, and...
BT facing major headache with Phorm stealth trial
News Security
BT has admitted to online UK tech site The Register that it has secretly used its own customers' data to test the controversial Phorm's advertising technology in June 2007 and strongly denied any wrongdoings when customers...
Acer rumoured to introduce gaming console? Not so fast...
News Hardware
Back last week, Betanews reported that Taiwan-based PC manufacturer Acer might be looking to introduce a game machine based on open standards According to Jacqueline Emigh, contributor at Betanews, Acer's senior vice president,...
Is Apple preparing a clamshell Motorola Razr iPhone?
News Mobile & Telco
A patent document uncovered by Unwiredview.com shows that Apple may be preparing a Clamshell iPhone.The 46-page document can be viewed (1.8MB PDF document) here and relates to "systems and methods for translucent dual sided...
HP new 32 core monster server signals return of the x86 king
News Hardware
The recent paper launch of the Proliant DL785 server is HP's latest thumbs up towards Austin-based AMD The chip firm, a distant second to Intel, has been plagued recently by a number of issues surrounding its latest Opteron...
Guerrilla Marketing
News Mobile & Telco
I'm here with virtually no money and Very Silly Games to promote. So, first up is to make a nice logo. My first attempt is OK, but I had to use a graphics program to produce it. My second one is created entirely within XNA, using...
Foxconn GeForce 8800GT OC Graphics Card
News Mobile & Telco
While the 9600GT might be the talk of the town in terms of graphics cards that have just been released, and everyone is also eagerly waiting to see what the 9800 series of cards will bring, the 8800GT is still a very alive and...
Monitor 3.71 build 1208
News Security
Instant Monitor also can log file operations on employee's computer, such as copy, delete, create, rename, open, copy file to removable disk, etc. Send alarm to console computer when employee do a file operation on removable...
Norton AntiVirus 11.0 Virus Definitions (Intel) 03/13/2008
News Security
Once downloaded and expanded on your hard drive, simply double-click on the Installer and the appropriate files will be installed on your computer. Read more of the article here
Learning the Ten Commandments. And other useful stuff.
News Consumer
I started off the day at the Education summit. The keynote was given by Ernest Adams who set out his ten commandments for Game Developer Education. I've not got time to list them all, but I was particularly taken with number 9...
Unix
News Security
Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as Unix or Unix® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken...
3Com Baseline Switch 2824 24 10/100/1000 Ports, £164.94 delivered
News Mobile & Telco
These highly affordable, unmanaged Gigabit switches are the ideal network building blocks for supporting dynamic, creative small-to-midsize business environments. With wirespeed Gigabit throughput and a switching capacity of up...
Registry Mechanic 6.0
News Security
It helps you fix problems with the Windows registry that are a common cause of crashes, slow performance and error messages. Key Features:Recommended utility to safely clean and repair Windows registry problems Repair invalid...
Sony 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, only £13.99 delivered
News Mobile & Telco
The MSX-M2GS Memory Stick PRO Duo media from Sony gives you maximum storage for your compact digital camera, portable audio device, or PSP Handheld Entertainment System. With a huge total storage capacity of 2 gigabytes and a...
Government must take data protection more seriously, says Parliament committee
News Security
The minister responsible for data protection should be more powerful according to a Parliamentary committee which has also condemned the Government for not taking data protection seriously enough.The Joint Committee on Human...
High Court says UK-IPO was wrong to reject software-related patent
News Security
UPDATED: The High Court has overturned a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) to reject a patent application as being nothing more than software. The UK-IPO said that today's ruling is incompatible with other...
Top retailers breach email footer laws, says survey
News Security
Some of the UK's biggest retailers are failing to fulfil their legal obligations in their email marketing, a study has found. CD WOW!, Game, Topshop and Waterstone's were amongst the companies which failed the tests set by an...
