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Articles Posted on 18 April 2008

A pair of 4GB PNY Attache Flash Drives, £17.99 delivered

A pair of 4GB PNY Attache Flash Drives, £17.99 delivered

News Hardware

Two PNY 4GB Flash Drives provide a 8GB memory solution! One for Work & One for Home or One for each of the kids for School! The PNY Attache Flash drive combines affordability with an excellent design and will appearl for a...


Targeted attacks follow-up

Targeted attacks follow-up

News Security

Maarten Van Horenbeeck did a writeup last year on targeted attacks.  Most of it is based on a presentation he gave at 24C3 last December, so it's somewhat dated right now. He is planning to update it. However, as a...


HP ProLiant DL140 G3 Server with eight cores, £451.32 delivered

HP ProLiant DL140 G3 Server with eight cores, £451.32 delivered

News Hardware

The HP ProLiant DL140 G3 server is an affordable 1U, dual processor capable server equipped with essential performance features that provide customers with a platform to design a fully optimized solution.It is ideal for general...


Phishing attacks going through the roof

Phishing attacks going through the roof

News Security

Interesting to see that APACS, the bank payments association, reckons that phishing email attacks have gone up by 200 per cent in the first quarter of the year.My own view is that, as phishing gets more difficult, with savvy...


ScanSafe says remote workers more likely to surf for pr0n

ScanSafe says remote workers more likely to surf for pr0n

News Security

I was amused, although hardly surprised, to read that research from ScanSafe claims to show that remote laptop users are two and half times more likely to surf for pr0n than their office colleagues.They are also, says the IT...


Podcast : Sensitive Data Utilisation Map with Gordon Rapkin

Podcast : Sensitive Data Utilisation Map with Gordon Rapkin

News Security

In this Podcast, Gordon Rapkin, CEO of Protegrity, examines some of the issues in creating a sensitive data utilization map as outlined in his white paper on The 10 Most Common Data Security Issues and How to Solve Them. You can...


The 10 Most Common Data Security Issues and How to Solve Them

The 10 Most Common Data Security Issues and How to Solve Them

News Security

Gordon Rapkin, president and CEO of Protegrity, has come across every conceivable data security issue. Here he has highlighted the most common ones, along with some advice on resolving the problems.#1 – Not knowing who uses...


Exclusive : Pictures of Orange's Read&Go, an Amazon Kindle rival

Exclusive : Pictures of Orange's Read&Go, an Amazon Kindle rival

News Hardware

French Telecoms giant Orange has announced a pilot for a 3G-enabled mobile newspaper kiosk which is not unlike Amazon's own e-reader device, the Kindle.Presented as a device incorporating Wifi/3G coupled connectivity with a...


Supercharge your IT Business Value through BSM

Supercharge your IT Business Value through BSM

News Business & Government

The key to maximizing the value of IT is to optimize your IT processes based on a business-aware foundation. Business Service Management (BSM) is the most effective approach for doing just that. Organizations that have begun BSM...


Environment harm and Data Security top public concern

Environment harm and Data Security top public concern

News Hardware

When it comes to data centres, their impact on the environment and the risk they pose to the security of personal information are revealed as the public’s main concerns, according to a survey commissioned by computer room...


National Union of Teachers urge members to learn IT

National Union of Teachers urge members to learn IT

News Security

Teachers across UK are finding it harder to keep up with children and students when it comes to the latest technology. The Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Christine Blower, said that the entity...


Financial sector faces IT Spending Freeze as slowdown kicks in

Financial sector faces IT Spending Freeze as slowdown kicks in

News Hardware

The Outsourcing and Off shoring sectors are expected to be the the biggest winners in what appears to be a difficult year for the Financial IT sector. A recent survey published by Computing and carried out by the Confederation...


Gold'en Rant : Microsoft's arrogance is breath-taking

Gold'en Rant : Microsoft's arrogance is breath-taking

News Security

Microsoft is playing a dangerous game with its consumers and business users. The software giant has confirmed the rumours circulating that it will pull Windows XP from retail channels at the end of June, leaving users with Vista...


Nokia sells more mobiles than competition but fails to generate more profits

Nokia sells more mobiles than competition but fails to generate more profits

News Security

The world's biggest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, saw its share fall by more than 10 percent after it missed its first quarter targets due partly to the economic slowdown in Europe and US. The Average Selling Price of Nokia...


Manchester Boffins demo smallest transistor ever

Manchester Boffins demo smallest transistor ever

News Mobile & Telco

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester have built what is believed to be the smallest - and simplest - transistor in the world, one that is one atom thick and 10 atom wide. The transistor is made up of graphene...


Police use of Facebook for crime reporting highlights the power of social networking sites

Police use of Facebook for crime reporting highlights the power of social networking sites

News Security

The announcement by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) about using Facebook as means of gathering intelligence illustrates the increasing adoption of social networking sites by organisations. GMP has announced it is working with...


Oklahoma State leaks tens of thousands of social security numbers

Oklahoma State leaks tens of thousands of social security numbers

News Security

Residents of Oklahoma State have reportedly been hit this week with the bad news that tens of thousands of their names, social security numbers and allied data were effectively available on the Web for around three years. The...


Talktalk to be separated from Carphone Warehouse mother ship

Talktalk to be separated from Carphone Warehouse mother ship

News Hardware

Carphone Warehouse has announced that it will free its Talktalk landline and broadband business and pledged to offer it more autonomy in a competitive market.The quests for more impartiality and more business partnerships drove...


QR codes coming to Harrods

QR codes coming to Harrods

News Cloud

QR codes (2 dimensional bar codes) have been around for over a decade now.  Whilst useful for inventory control, they have found particular favour in Asia for consumer marketing.  Japanese camera phones enable time...


Credit crunch slowing innovation

Credit crunch slowing innovation

News Mobile & Telco

The last few years has seen a resurgence of individuals putting their mobile ideas on on the commercial rack. Many heavily invested their own money and time buoyed up by optimism and favourable initial reactions. ...


O2 belatedly joins the Mobile Broadband foray with £20 offer

O2 belatedly joins the Mobile Broadband foray with £20 offer

News Mobile & Telco

Telefonica-owned Mobile Service Provider, O2, has finally joined the wireless broadband revolution by offering a £20, 3GB offer HSDPA-enabled service. Customers will also be able to access 7500 Wi-Fi hotspot locations in...


Three slashes price on mobile broadband; now starts from £5 per month

Three slashes price on mobile broadband; now starts from £5 per month

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile service provider Three seeks to attract more of its existing customers to its Mobile broadband offer by halving the normal price of its broadband for those with an existing 3 contract. This means that the cheapest Price...


Ad-Aware 2007 Reference File 0067.0000

Ad-Aware 2007 Reference File 0067.0000

News Security

Once the update has been applied, you can delete the reflist.zip file as it is no longer needed.Read the rest of the article here


Palit GeForce 8800 GTS 1GB Sonic SLI Video Card Review

Palit GeForce 8800 GTS 1GB Sonic SLI Video Card Review

News Hardware

Palit puts great thought and engineering into each of their products and it shows. From the PCB up, Palit marches to the beat of its own drum, meaning no reference model designs here. This speaks well to the old adage of...


Apple capitulates

Apple capitulates

News Security

From the folks at the Berkman Center at Harvard (StopBadware): A few weeks ago, the blogosphere raised concerns about the Windows version of Apple Software Update for offering new software installations (e.g., Safari) disguised...


Rumor: Dell to offer XP to 2011?

Rumor: Dell to offer XP to 2011?

News Security

I have just been advised by my Dell representative that Dell will be offering XP on Optiplex and Latitude computers through 2011 at no extra cost. Vista media will be available for those who think they might want to install it...

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