Articles Posted on 25 April 2008
ITIL and CMDB Synergy : Enhanced Service Management
News Business & Government
IT organizations that want to achieve the full business value from their service management initiatives need consistent, current, accurate, and secure information. That’s why an increasing number of these organizations are...
Business Continuity - Project or process?...
News Hardware
Well, both really..... To some extent. Whilst it is essential to manage the business continuity management implementation project as you would manage any other significant project, there are elements of business continuity...
CDMA having problems?
News Hardware
In the early days of GSM the 900MHz band was the frequency of choice for many networks.Then came the upstart entrants, Orange and One 2 One (T-Mobile) using the weaker 1800MHz band ensuring considerably more base stations were...
Microsoft tells Yahoo : Make up your mind by Monday or the deal is off
News Security
Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer, Chris Liddell, told industry observers and analysts that Yahoo has until Monday morning to make up its mind over Microsoft's proposal to acquire the beleaguered company. He rebuked Yahoo's...
Gold'en Rant : Power Cut highlights Windows Backup shortcomings
News Security
It's been a hairy week at here at Gold towers - on Tuesday I visited the Infosecurity Europe show in London and, whilst I was there, someone decided what a good idea it was to launch a variety of attacks on my server, which fell...
In my dreams: The perfect Nokia mobile office
News Consumer
The other day whilst having a few pints with an ex Nokia colleague we turned, inevitably, to what was happening with the industry, in particular the vast range of qwerty keyboard devices coming on the market. Everywhere you...
Mobile Skype Beta app debuts on 50 handsets
News Mobile & Telco
Ebay-owned VoIP outfit Skype, has announced a beta version of Skype for an initial batch of 50 mobile phones that can run Java Platform, a few days after it announced new landline fixed rate plans.Skype mobile will include...
£5 mobile phone quartet at Asda could pull prices further down
News Hardware
Walmart-owned British Supermarket Asda has started to sell more than 50,000 mobile phone handsets for £5 when purchased with a £10 top up; that's cheaper than a pack of cigarettes. This is part of a bid to attract...
Box Breakers clear out stock of 8GB iPhones, fuel booming grey market
News Consumer
It took only one week for O2 and Carphone Warehouse to get rid of their stock of 8GB Apple iPhone thanks to a surprising but welcomed £100 rebate; both retailers' websites placed virtual "no more stock available"...
Sony intros new phones and video services but profits fall by half
News Security
Sony Ericsson is the latest mobile phone manufacturer to feel the pain of the global economic woes as its profits felled by nearly half to 133 Euros million with its sales dipping by eight percent over a year. Overall, Sony...
LG Secret : Big on features but no iPhone Killer
News Security
Secret is the name of LG's new mobile phone; a new sexy device loaded with geeky features but still far, far behind the iPhone's mix of intuitive functionality and uber-cool style. The KF750 is LG's Black Label edition phone (ed...
BBC gets backing of Ofcom against ISPs over streamed video
News Mobile & Telco
Whether or not you believe Doom Sayers; video over the web is the next big thing and if left to its own devices, it may cause more than a few issues. Who will be responsible for solving these is what the BBC and the ISP...
Using Google leaves one in six without a clue according to survey
News Software
An ICM poll commissioned by UK Online Centres, a Government-funded body that proposes IT training courses, yielded out some disturbing figures that highlight the fact that bridging the digital divide in UK could be farther than...
Microsoft could extend XP shelf life after CEO hint
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft's CEO could well do a spectacular Brownian U-turn by allowing Windows XP to continue to be sold alongside Windows Vista (ed : they might even sell XP at a premium). In a move that ressembles the British Prime Minister...
Thinktank warns Home Office about stance on Phorm Technology
News Security
The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) sent an open letter to the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, criticising the decision of the government to rubber stamp the technology. According to the FIPR, the Home office's...
Internet to break down by 2010 says AT&T prophet of doom
News Software
American Telecom Giant AT&T dispatched its vice president of legislative affairs to speak at last week's Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 in London and he issued a worrying message : the net will reach its physical capacity by...
16GB USB Flash Drive still going down, £32.89
News Hardware
This 16GB USB drive, which will cost you £32.89 excluding delivery, will allow you to squeeze almost four DVDs in one tiny USB drive. The Extra Value USB 2.0 16GB Flash Drive is ideal for home office, small business,...
Samsung 750 GB HD753LJ Spinpoint F1, big drop at £67.75 Delivered
News Hardware
A massive hard disk drive which will surely need to be RAIDed (or you could say good buy to your data). Its price has dropped by nearly £30 since the beginning of the year. The drive is on sale at Scan for £67.75...
Microsoft Vista SP1 now available as automated update
News Software
Users of Windows Vista, rejoice; Microsoft is going to thrust the first service pack for its newest consumer operating system onto millions of consumers who have turned their automatic update feature on and who hadn't downloaded...
Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM)
News Mobile & Telco
This allows individual wavelengths carrying data channels to be added and dropped from a transport fiber without the need to convert the signals on all of the WDM channels to electronic signals and back again to optical...
NVIDIA 9800 GX2 Quad SLI Review
News Hardware
Test MachineThe test machine I am using has the following specs: OS- Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bitPSU- Top Power 1100WRAM- 2GB Aeneon DDR3-16000CPU- Intel QX9770Display- 30-inch Dell3DMark06The first test up for quad SLI is...
Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.0.3
News Mobile & Telco
Then it creates a report in plain English that tells you how you must change your web site to get a similar top ranking. It also offers a keyword density analyzer and a search engine ranking reporter. It creates customizable PDF,...
