Articles Posted on 06 May 2008
Mobile Internet World Europe Summit 2008
News Mobile & Telco
Attend the Mobile Internet World Europe Summit, May 19, 2008, Munich, Germany! Join over 40+ industry executives from the entire mobile Internet ecosystem including Access, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Yankee Group, Napster, Telcordia and...
The good and the bad of the mobile networks
News Mobile & Telco
The Channel 4 Dispatches programme just shows how a successful industry works. In spite of the dominance of foreign handset and network manufacturers, the UK networks have developed in such a way as to influence the mobile...
Does Californian bank scam highlights need for data vaulting?
News Security
This is the question that security firm Cyber-Ark asks referring to the case of a California bank employee who sold his employer's computers on eBay - and even pawned them to raise cash - highlights the need for digital data...
Auction websites fail to benefit from economic slowdown as shoppers flock elsewhere
News Security
Auction sites are suffering a downturn in popularity. The last 6 months has seen the proportion of UK households saying they buy on eBay and other online auction sites drop by 4% according to the latest data from Point...
Radio Free Europe hit by hacker DDOS attacks
News Security
It seems that Radio Free Europe has upset a group of hackers, as reports are coming in of a series of distributed denial of service attacks on the station's various Web sites on t'Internet.According to Paul Ferguson, an advanced...
HTC launches Diamond, yet another iPhone competitor
News Security
Handset specialist HTC has launched another iPhone killer dubbed "Diamond"; a superb touchscreen smartphone with a 2.8-inch VGA screen.HTC's flagship smartphone comes with a 3.2megapixel camera with autofocus and a...
Card fraudster methodology revealed in Ohio
News Security
Although the bank card issuers tend to sweep reports of how fraudsters commit their card fraud under their large corporate carpets, the odd local press story does creep out.And this is what's happened in the Cleveland...
Google delists Opensource Project under DCMA pressure
News Security
Search Engine Google has bowed to a complaint by the president and CEO of Corecodec, Dan Marlin, who accused Google of supporting a project that reversed engineered Corecodec's product without permission.A Digital Millennium...
Is Apple planning a worldwide launch for the 3G iPhone?
News Mobile & Telco
With less than four weeks to go to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, more cues have appeared that point to a worldwide launch of the next generation iPhone.An Austrian newspaper, Der Standard, has published reports that...
Looket 3.5 Inch Touchscreen Sat Nav with UK + Ireland Maps, £59.99
News Mobile & Telco
A rapid reacting GPS system in a slim and compact housing, the Looket G8 is the powerful navigation system backed by a 400MHz CPU. The Windows CE.NET 5.0 operating system is on board to ensure you get voice and visual guidance,...
Yahoo partners with McAfee to kick rogue websites
News Security
Yahoo has announced that it will be using McAfee's SiteAdvisor service to scan websites in search of malware and rogue codes and warn its uses about their presence.The most dangerous websites will simply be removed from the...
Security Firm brings down Hacker Server; recovers thousands of log files
News Security
Finjan revealed that it discovered a server controlled by hackers otherwise known as a Crimeserver containing more than 1.4 Gigabyte of business and personal data stolen from infected PCs. The data consisted of 5,388 unique...
Xobni comes out of Beta to rock Microsoft Outlook's world
News Software
Contact management tool Xobni has been officially released yesterday after nearly seven months of Invite-only beta and could be a life-saving tool for users who depend on Outlook to communicate with the rest of the world.Xobni,...
AMD's future in limbo as Intel lawsuit reveals worrying situation
News Hardware
AMD, the microprocessor manufacturer that stands between Intel and world domination, has revealed the dire state of its finances as part of a court filing that will be used in an antitrust suit that it is mounting against...
Contingency planning at the heart of DR
News Hardware
For data sensitive companies, and I’m pressed to imagine one that isn’t, planning contingencies for their data centre will determine how successful their DR plan really is. Whether, the data centre is owned and...
High Definition Freesat makes debut in UK
News Security
Freesat, the brand new digital satellite service that is bound to make Sky and other media companies quake in their boots, has been launched today; the collaboration between BBC and iTV means that for the first time, High...
Yahoo sends contradictory signals after Microsoft backs off from merger deal
News Security
Yahoo is still opened to a complete buyout by Microsoft or other companies which would be ready to put the right price on the table, said Jerry Yang, Yahoo's Chief Executive Officer. In what seems to be some kind of...
ViceVersa PRO 2.0
News Security
ViceVersa PRO delivers an easy way to backup, mirror, replicate and synchronize files and folders. ViceVersa works with any type of storage media on laptop, desktop, servers. ViceVersa implements both on-demand visual execution...
Grand Theft Auto maker claims pulled ads breached free speech
News Security
Take Two Interactive Software publishes the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games, which are designed by an Edinburgh-based team. Violent content has made it one of the most controversial series of games ever.The suit accuses the Chicago...
Two arrested over piracy at computer fair
News Security
The raid was carried out at a weekend computer fair in Bradford and involved the seizure of counterfeit software and machinery to 'chip' games consoles. Chipping a console makes it possible to play pirated games on it by...
Wikipedia goes to court to defend defamation immunity
News Security
The company behind the site will argue that it should be granted immunity under US law. A literary agent is suing Wikipedia owner the Wikimedia Foundation over a comment posted on the site that she was "the dumbest" of...
Vodafone start selling iPhone in Australia
News Mobile & Telco
Australia has become the first country in Oceania to be bestowed by the presence of Apple's iConic phone through Mobile service provider, Vodafone. Vodafone has also signed an agreement with the iPhone manufacturer to sell the...
VDI
News Security
For instance when /dev/null is written to, the kernel tells the program it wrote everything to it (without actually writing it anywhere), and when read from, the reading program is told that it has reached the end of the file. It...
Asus Eee PC 900-W / Intel Mobile / White, £330 delivered
News Software
Through extensive Research and development, the inclusion of the 8.9" display screen does not affect the overall weight of the Eee PC 900, which remains below 1kg – making it easy for anyone to carry it around; and...
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300
News Hardware
Most of the Penryn media attention has been focused upon the desktop Core 2 processors, but in January at the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show Intel had rolled out sixteen new products and a dozen of them were mobile oriented. Among...
