Articles Posted on 08 May 2008
Peter Gabriel's Web portal offline for three days - what happened?
News Security
Mystery sounds the outage of Peter Gabriel's Web site which went offline last weekend.After several newswires initially started talking about an Internet domain name theft, the site's operators soon admitted that their data...
Chip & sPIN arrives in Australia next month
News Security
Cardholders will be able to use their PINs in Australia at most retailers from June 4 onwards, Visa International has announced.The good news is that, unlike in the UK, where punters don't get a choice, consumers on Australia...
How mature is your Archive?
News Hardware
A recent report from analysts the Aberdeen Group found that 59 percent of respondents do not have an e-discovery or message archiving strategy in place. The worrying implication is that the majority of businesses today are not in...
Online Marketing & Media 08
News Consumer
Brought to you by NMA and Marketing Week, visit Online Marketing & Media 08 to understand, discover and learn how to further integrate online marketing and media elements into your strategy to achieve the perfect solution.The...
BT reveals Total Broadband Anywhere offer with free Togo Smartphones
News Mobile & Telco
As reported yesterday, BT has now officially unveiled its all-inclusive Total Broadband Anywhere offer with free smartphones included, starting at only £23.99 per month, only £5 more than its BT Total Broadband...
OpenOffice.org 3.0 goes Beta; Microsoft Office gets serious competition
News Software
The first beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0 came out hot from the mirror download sites of the open source organisation and promises to shake Microsoft Office 2007 as the launch date of September 2008 approaches.The business suite which...
Universal shows green light to QTrax's free legal music downloads
News Consumer
Qtrax has finally signed the second major record company to its free legal file-sharing website; Universal Music is said to have bargained hard and secured a higher royalty rate per download than what iTunes offered.The New York...
Hitachi ramps up laptop hard disk capacity to 320GB with new Travelstar drive
News Hardware
Hitachi has release an update to its popular Travelstar laptop hard drive range; the 7K320 packs 320GB of pure, unadulterated space for your bits and bytes and still runs at 7200rpm, making it not only spacious but also faster...
Let us sell iPhones worldwide, says France Telecom to Apple
News Mobile & Telco
France Telecom is pursuing talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in several countries worldwide, according to Chief Financial Officer Gervais Pellissier.The company, which owns the Orange brand, is actively canvassing Apple to get...
SQL Injection Worm infects thousands of unpatched websites
News Security
Another SQL Injection worm is on the run and it has succeeded in infecting a few thousands websites until now, making them become malware spewing websites instead.The worm adds a few lines of codes to pages of the target website...
Xobni prepares something big, wants to rule your inbox and more
News Business & Government
After having released Xobni from its beta shackles, the Email startup is looking to simplify your inbox even more as it licenses intellectual property from a company called MetricStream.10 patents are apparently involved and they...
UK ID Card scheme records yet another rise says report
News Security
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has promised that the price of ID Cards will be kept under £30 but it looks almost certain that the final bill is set to increase according to a bi-annual report published on Tuesday.The...
Virgin Media plans 40Gbps backbone connectivity
News Hardware
Cable company Virgin Media has teamed up with Network companies Nortel and Juniper in a trial that saw data shuttled at speeds of 40Gbps over the 350km that separates London and Manchester.The trial, which took place a couple of...
Rowling privacy win confirms proper test for privacy, says expert
News Security
A Court of Appeal ruling in Rowling's favour has reinforced the circumstances in which people are entitled to the protection of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), said Rosemary Jay, head of the...
Rowling privacy ruling bolsters Commissioner's view of data protection law
News Security
That view has been held by the Information Commissioner but was previously untested in court.In a case brought on behalf of their son, David Murray, JK Rowling and her husband argued that the taking and publication of photos of...
Bournemouth gets Sewer-based Fibre-optic Broadband connectivity
News Hardware
Sunny city Bournemouth will become UK's first city to experience fibre optic-based broadband, beating competing bids from Northampton and Dundee (arguably because there's not enough sunshine there).This project, the biggest of...
ITV faces biggest-ever Ofcom fine over phone vote rigging
News Security
It is the highest fine the media regulator has ever imposed and is added to the £7.8 million ITV has already pledged to repay viewers or give to charity. The fine is the latest in a long line of reprimands and fines...
virtual area network
News Hardware
A VLAN has the same attributes as a physical LAN, but it allows for end stations to be grouped together even if they are not located on the same LAN segment. Network reconfiguration can be done through software instead of...
ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Motherboard Review
News Consumer
Is this the motherboard you've been waiting for? HardwareLogic straps the M3N-HT onto the test bench and drops knowledge on you, raw and uncut.Sony, Apple, HP, Compaq, Palm, Alienware, and Falcon Northwest all have one thing in...
Epson Stylus DX4400 All-In-One Printer, £39.95 delivered
News Security
Worried about the presentation of that school project? DURABrite Ink ensures photo lab quality printing, and that text and graphics are bright, water resistant and extra sharp, whether on plain or matt paper.The kids will also...
Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII *32MB Cache*, £94.99 delivered
News Hardware
It also features Samsung's industry-leading NoiseGuard and SilentSeek‚ technologies to eliminate acoustic noise.Servers, high-end desktops, RAID systems and DVRs are among the applications well suited to the Spinpoint F1...
