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Articles Posted on 14 April 2008

Those part-time job offers can get you into trouble

Those part-time job offers can get you into trouble

News Security

I'm sure most readers of this story will be familiar with the scamsters who try to lure UK Netters into "assisting them" in their frauds by using UK punters' bank accounts as a funnel for their revenue stream.It seems...


Punters blissfully unaware of  botnet's potential - NCSA

Punters blissfully unaware of botnet's potential - NCSA

News Security

I was intrigued to read that, despite the surge of publicity surrounding botnets, the NCSA reckons that the vast majority of US Internet users out there are blissfully unaware of botnets and the damage they can cause.According to...


More details of the Nokia's iPhone Killer leaked, Tube is real

More details of the Nokia's iPhone Killer leaked, Tube is real

News Mobile & Telco

Nokia's Tube is real and it seems that at least one journalist has seen it and managed to get a photo snap of it. Two pictures taken by Symbian Freak seems to suggest that the phone has a highly glossy finish and comes with a...


Virgin Media CEO lambasts Net Neutrality, plans fast-lane content

Virgin Media CEO lambasts Net Neutrality, plans fast-lane content

News Software

Virgin Media CEO, Neil Berkett, went ballistic on the concept of Net Neutrality, which says that Internet Service Providers ought not interfere or manipulate speed at which content is being downloaded or uploaded. Speaking to...


LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive, £112 delivered

LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive, £112 delivered

News Hardware

The Blu-ray disc format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc.Not only can you playback the BD format, you can also...


Dr.Web for Windows 4.44.2

Dr.Web for Windows 4.44.2

News Hardware

It is deeply integrated into the operating system of your PC, which practically excludes any possible intrusion of a malicious code, e.i. virus, worm, or trojan into your computer.Latest Changes: Support of Windows Server 2008...


High Court quashes decision to release secret ID card reports

High Court quashes decision to release secret ID card reports

News Security

The freedom of information case must now be re-assessed by a new Tribunal, the Court said. The massive project is subject to periodic independent reviews of progress, called Gateway Reviews, by the Office of Government Commerce...


Microsoft proposes new ad privacy structure

Microsoft proposes new ad privacy structure

News Security

The software giant hopes to influence US consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission in its consideration of whether or not online advertisers should be governed by self-regulatory principles.Microsoft has proposed some...


Java virtual machine

Java virtual machine

News Web

The model used by a JVM accepts a form of computer intermediate language commonly referred to as Java bytecode. This language conceptually represents the instruction set of a stack-oriented, capability architecture.Java Virtual...


Information watchdog raps Government over access to data

Information watchdog raps Government over access to data

News Security

The ICO has rebuked the Government department over its FOI behaviour. The Department of Health (DoH) has failed to offer people seeking information the correct advice and assistance and has delayed vital processes beyond a...


Added Value

Added Value

News Security

Today was the first day of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit. Before everything kicked off we went for a walk around Seattle. We found this really cool magic shop. Check out the Elvis Zoltar inside...I...


Playstation 3 owner cracks BBC iPlayer access

Playstation 3 owner cracks BBC iPlayer access

News Hardware

Perhaps Playstation 3 users are a bit miffed by the cavalier attitude of Sony or perhaps it is just a disgruntled enthusiast who sat down and said "enough is enough", anyhow, a few hours after BBC announced that the...


Murdoch's Myspace innovates; plans to invade Telly and DVD turf

Murdoch's Myspace innovates; plans to invade Telly and DVD turf

News Hardware

Elisabeth Murdoch might be less known than his brother James, the apparent heir to Rupert Murdoch, but that didn't prevent the 40-year old ex-senior BSkyB executive to head one of the most powerful media companies in the UK. ...


AMD Phenom 9850 X4 Black Edition CPU Review

AMD Phenom 9850 X4 Black Edition CPU Review

News Hardware

Intel released their Core 2 Quad CPUs early last year and AMD followed with their first four core CPUs in September of 2007. Today they have two lines of processors with Quad Cores, the Phenom and the Opteron platform. The Phenom...


Truphone acquires SIM4Travel, eyes MVNO status

Truphone acquires SIM4Travel, eyes MVNO status

News Mobile & Telco

Interesting days indeed; since the big players like T-Mobile have opened their networks to other Mobile Virtual Network Operators, a number of players have evolved: Virgin and Tesco, two of the biggest independent MVNOs now have...


IBM's Racetrack to replace hard disk, solid state technologies

IBM's Racetrack to replace hard disk, solid state technologies

News Hardware

IBM invented the original hard disk drive back in 1956 and in a few years' time, a new Big Blue invention called Racetrack could replace it altogether. The technology works by storing data within minuscule magnetic boundaries -...


Phones4U to flog subsidised televisions and laptops soon

Phones4U to flog subsidised televisions and laptops soon

News Hardware

It won't be the first time that companies try to entice prospective customers into signing expensive contracts for services; UK Mobile Phone customers have been doing for years. But this is set to expand to other services as...


BT and Vodafone partners over high speed connectivity

BT and Vodafone partners over high speed connectivity

News Hardware

Vodafone has announced that it has entered a five-year agreement with BT to use the latter's 21st Century Network (21CN) Ethernet Service as well as delegating the management of traffic and bandwidth from Vodafone's UK base...


Dell Vostro 400 D044014, £293.82 with 3GB RAM, 1TB Storage

Dell Vostro 400 D044014, £293.82 with 3GB RAM, 1TB Storage

News Hardware

This deal has been posted before but Dell has thrown in another GB worth of memory. Dell Vostro desktops are built specifically for the unique needs of small businesses and are ready to be customized with the features and...

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