Like Christmas and (unless you’re the Queen) your birthday, business continuity awareness week comes around but once a year – in case you didn’t know, this year it’s 31st March to 4th April.   We...

Guy Hands has recruited a senior US Google Executive to head the EMI digital music strategy as the record label tries to diversify and look for greener pastures, out of the traditional CD market. Douglas Merrill was Google's...

The iPlayer has been hugely popular with internet users and has been one of the major highlights of the Beeb this year; but ISPs have been quick to respond to this popularity and pointed out that they were losing money. Some...

I was dismayed to read that security researchers with FaceTime Communications, the secure IM and IP communications specialists, claim to have uncovered an attack methodology in which profiles on Facebook are being used to post...

I was interested to read a blog post from Roger Thompson, the chief research officer of AVG Technologies, in which he claims to have identified a security flaw in CA Windows software.Unlike a lot of these flaws, this is one that...

Freeview HD will start operating in UK as early as next year, media regulator Ofcom announced this morning; viewers who will need to upgrade their existing Freeview set top box will be able to view up to four HD channels. At...

Intel has announced at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China, that it will be launching solid state hard disks based on NAND flash technology; Intel has also announced that it would form a Joint Venture with...

It is not a late April joke; Deutsche Telekom, which owns of the global T-Mobile brand, has asked popular Gadget website Engadget to stop using the Magenta colour in its logo via a nice letter its legal department sent to the US...

1) Mark, could you firstly give us an overview of what Palamida is and what are your core services?A: Software development today results in hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third party components. In...

FileMaker Pro is the #1-selling easy-to-use database software for Windows and Mac OS that helps you manage people, projects, assets and more – the easy way.Information comes in many forms, from business cards to...

Newton’s first law of motion states that a moving body will want to keep moving.  The same law also seems to apply to business data, and the problem is trying to stop that mobile data moving further than you want it...

Although almost all UK companies back up their critical IT systems and data, more than a quarter of them still do not have a disaster recovery plan in place. Half of those that do have plans, fail to test them. Also, 15% of...

E-tailer giant has debut a new mobile service called TextBuyIt whic allows its customers to use text messages to purchases items from Amazon.com; the company has not specified whether the service would be available outside US. ...

For once, competition could be very healthy indeed; Research in Motion, which manufactures, the Blackberry device, announced that its fourth quarter profit and revenues had shot up as its subscriber base expanded substantially. ...

One has to wonder whether firing staff is evil or not; In the first time ever, Google is said to have fired several hundred employees as it takes the Doubleclick acquisition up to the next level. Google has acknowledged in a...

A company and its chief executive will be paid the highest damages yet awarded for libel on the internet in the UK. Peter Walls and Gentoo will be paid £119,000 by rival firm owner John Finn.Finn initially denied posting a...

EXCLUSIVE: A landmark case on the compatibility of data protection and freedom of information laws was heard by the House of Lords this week. The outcome could have profound implications, according to one expert.The case focuses...

TimeTracker lets you setup different Customer accounts, create different Projects and Sub-Projects for each customer, and different Billing Rates to assign to each Work Activity record.Build 10 may include unspecified updates,...

The banking industry has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking customers responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or anti-phishing protection. New Banking Codes for consumers and businesses took effect...

They own the fastest single GPU card, the fastest multiGPU single card, and the fastest multi card configurations. People who want the best of the best do pay a premium for the privilege, but that isn't something everyone is...

The email is made out to a key financial contact here at Sunbelt (name obfuscated for this post). As you can see, it’s quite convincing. (Incidentally, “Sunbelt Software Distribution, Inc.” is no longer our...

It is the license used by the Linux kernel. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft. Under this philosophy, the...

With CTIA 2008 taking place this week the technology news will be littered with articles on the benefits of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC).  Event exhibitors will be raving about their so-called solutions that enable FMC in...

The superb Philips HEPC 7511 has all you would expect from a leading brand entertainment PC.It Includes an Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 and  Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium. Also features an enormous 400GB Hard Drive...

The Samsung Spinpoint F1 is the first three-disk hard drive delivering a whopping 1TB of capacity along with sophisticated recording technology. With its compact, lightweight package and advanced design, the F1 drive offers many...

You know you've made it big when you are in Micro Mart. At the end of yesterday's lecture I was shown a picture of my ugly mug staring out of page 94 of issue 997 of Micro Mart magazine. It was part of an article about...

It is often said that ‘the Devil is in the detail’. This was again proven to be true with the publication of the UK’s first National Security Strategy earlier this month.Critics of the strategy have labelled it...

Open. Delete. Open. Delete. Open. Delete. It doesn’t seem as if it takes up too much of your time, does it? Yet managing spam email predominantly sent from the US costs small to medium businesses in the UK over £4.5...

Many handset web browsers are frankly unusable. They are clunky to operate, counter intuitive and render web pages in unfathomable ways. Opera Mobile and Opera Mini for Java handsets especially, have consistently been the best...