Articles Posted on 22 April 2008
Red Bull wins redbullsucks.com from energy drink rival
News Consumer
A man who owned the domain name redbullsucks.com has been ordered to hand it over to Red Bull, the energy drink company. The man had claimed his was a protest site warning of the dangers of energy drinks but was found to be...
Google starts Street View in Europe
News Security
Google has started recording the streets of its first non-US city for its Street View service. Google vans with mounted cameras have been spotted on the streets of Rome and Milan. Car bearing Google Maps logo and mounted camera...
Fewer, deadlier attacks hit corporate IT, reports BERR
News Security
The study also claims that the falling numbers could be an understatement of the true figures. The Department for Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has published research into IT security in business which shows that the...
CMDB, the Cornerstone of ITIL-based Integrated Service Support
News Business & Government
A CMDB, when used in support of ITIL best practices, is the cornerstone of IT Service Support, providing a centralized view of IT data that is essential to delivering consistent, reliable, effective, and efficient service to your...
Open Source solutions bypass the ‘black box’ mentality
News Software
The recent high-profile bidding war for Yahoo by Microsoft and News International has once again prompted people to question the wisdom of allowing single companies to dominate our information-based society with closed systems....
19 Factors Affecting Wireless LAN Performance
News Hardware
Why current Wireless LANs will remain a complimentary network solution; its all about performance……and why that may be about to change.Current widely-deployed Wireless LAN technologies – primarily 802.11B...
Are Hop-On disposable phones a good idea?
News Security
The idea of a disposable mobile has been around for a few years now, and one of the major proponents, Hop-On are introducing it to Europe and the Middle East. Over the last two weeks they have already received orders for...
Putting together an almost fool-proof backup plan
News Hardware
Data backup is one of the most lucrative slices in the storage markets. Research Outfit IDC reckons that Online backup itself will be worth $715 million by 2011, representing a compounded annual growth rate of 33 percentBackup is...
One in eight big UK firms have been hacked
News Security
A bi-annual report, called "Information Security Breaches" and produced by PwC for the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, has revealed the extent of the hacking problem within some of UK's larger...
Mesh Vendors add 802.11n, VoIP to their feature list
News Hardware
Ruckus Wireless has added 802.11n capability to its newly released ZoneDirector 3000 which it calls a "smart wireless LAN (WLAN) controller" and could help in rolling out Wireless LANs quickly with minimal cabling. ...
Government Agency urges Search Engines to be more transparent
News Security
The managing director of Get Safe Online, a partnership between the UK government and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), called for search engine to make give out more details about how they managed their users' personal...
Google captures World's Greatest Brand spot
News Security
Google has enjoyed a couple of good days after its brand came first in a Global Brand survey published by WPP-owned Millward Brown which looked at the goodwill associated with companies status. The study, which looked at more...
Ebay faces major sellers rebellion on the 1st of May
News Software
The World biggest online auction website is bracing itself for the most crucial challenge it ever faced when some of its most trusted and loyal customers go ahead with a planned boycott on 1st of May. The main reason of the...
BT wants to create UK's biggest Wi-Fi hotspot group
News Hardware
UK businesses of all sizes can now turn their premises into wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) hotspots, expanding the range of services they offer to customers and visitors, and potentially creating a new revenue stream, through BT...
Orange to follow O2, T-Mobile footsteps and subsidise French iPhones
News Mobile & Telco
French news outlet, Les Echos, reported that Orange officials are mulling plans to subsidise the French iPhone following less than stellar sales figures in France and spectacular results from O2 across the Channel when subsidies...
Apple concedes revenue sharing iPhone defeat in Italy in a bid to increase market share?
News Mobile & Telco
Italian Newspaper La Repubblica is reporting that Apple will launch the 3G iPhone in Italy in June through Telecom Italia without the compulsory revenue sharing scheme that has been imposed on the initial iPhone partners in...
Vodafone commits to halving its carbon footprint by 2020
News Security
Telecom giant Vodafone has pledged a 50 percent reduction in its CO2 emissions by 2020 by streamlining the way it uses energy internally and by increasing the renewable part of the its energy usage. Its Chief executive officer...
Power PC
News Mobile & Telco
Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. PowerPC was the cornerstone of AIM's PReP and Common Hardware Reference Platform initiatives in...
Europeans warm up to high speed Broadband, says EC
News Web
A report commissioned by the European Commission found out that although four out of five Europeans have broadband connections, a substantial portion do not use the internet. Nearly 80 percent of European businesses are now...
AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0.93a1283
News Security
The core of the testing engine is a Virtual Device Driver which loads into memory on Windows startup.AVG Anti-Virus has the following other editions available: AVG Anti-Virus Free and AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall.Read the rest of...
Very Silly Simon
News Consumer
This is a screenshot of the Simple Simon Project at Very Silly Games. It will eventually be a pattern matching game remarkably like another game named after a pieman. I've only written the first bit for now, with some questions...
Is Hop-on's £10 disposable Phone already too expensive?
News Mobile & Telco
California-based Telecom Company Hop-on is readying a range of £10 mobile phones that aim at securing the very bottom end of the mobile phone market. Hop-on managed to keep the price of its phone so low by ditching the LCD...
ASUS P5E3 Premium WiFi X48 Motherboard
News Mobile & Telco
Core 2 processors have an array of chipsets to choose from now, both from Intel and NVIDIA; and this certainly isn’t a bad thing, but we won’t be seeing any chipsets coming from ATI, since AMD now owns them. . P965...
Dell Vostro 200 D042012 with 3GB memory, £324 delivered
News Software
A top-notch PC package from Dell with free delivery thrown in for good measure; note that there are two 160GB Hard disk drives. Dell Vostro desktops are built specifically for the unique needs of small businesses and are ready...
Play 8GB USB Flash Drive, £14.99 delivered
News Hardware
The Play.com Flash Drive is a fast and easy way to transfer data between computers in styleThe Play.com Flash Drive from Play.com makes it easy to quickly save and transport your important data. Users can transfer documents,...
Disaster Recovery Planning
News Hardware
Most companies have wised-up to alternative voice and data communications for when disaster strikes. However… …when it comes to managing the situation back to Business As Usual there are still too many good...
700,000 social security numbers at risk
News Security
More ID theft madness from the US as the theft of a computer server from an Indianapolis debt collection firm appears to have opened up 700,000-plus people to identity theft.According to US newswire reports, the server was owned...
