Articles Posted on 12 May 2008
SPAMFighter Pro 6.2.29
News Security
Whenever new mail arrives, it will automatically be tested by the SPAMfighter server and if it's spam, it will be moved to your spam folder. Join the more than 4,6 million SPAMfighters in 210 countries/areas that have a clean...
Marshal claims one botnet accounts for half of all spam
News Security
Interesting to read the latest stats from IT security vendor Marshal, which claims that the Srizbi botnet is now accounting for around half of all spam generated on t'Internet.The firm's TRACE security operation says that the...
Back-scatter spam tacked by Astaro
News Security
The problem of back-scatter spam - the bounced messages generated when some fiendish spammer has spoofed your email address in the `from' email field of their outgoing crap - has been tacked by Astaro.The Reading-based IT...
Time for the emergence of SOA-Lite?
News Cloud
In a recent post, I was reflecting on the buzz about WOA (web-oriented architecture) - this subject has come up as a possible way to deliver something similar to SOA but in a more lightweight fashion. Now, as I discussed in...
Microsoft challenges €899 million fine
News Security
"Microsoft today filed with the Court of First Instance an application to annul the Commission decision of February 27," a Microsoft spokesman told reporters on Friday. "We are filing this appeal in a constructive...
Computer Misuse Act changes are delayed further
News Security
Changes to the Computer Misuse Act will not be activated until October. The Home Office confirmed to OUT-LAW.COM that the long-awaited changes will not happen now as planned, but in October. It had previously said that the...
Information Commissioner gets power to fine for privacy breaches
News Security
The move, which had not been expected by privacy experts, follows a Government defeat in the House of Lords. The provision is contained in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill. The Lords backed an Opposition amendment to...
HP dx2250 Sempron 3600+ 1GB 80GB DVD Rom XP Pro, 19-inch LCD, £267.90 only
News Hardware
Featuring genuine Windows for a familiar and intuitive environment• Industry standard features and proven technology from AMD and ATI exceed basic business requirements, ensure reliability, and help lower overall cost of...
Fujitsu Siemens ESPRIMO Mobile V5535, £249.99
News Software
The Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535 gives you the possibility to write data and video to all major recordable DVD formats.This 15.4 inch notebook PC comes with an 80GB hard drive, giving you ample digital space to store...
virtual circuit
News Hardware
After a connection or virtual circuit is established between two nodes or application processes, a bit stream or byte stream may be delivered between the nodes. A virtual circuit protocol hides the division into segments, packets...
Kingston HyperX KHX14400D3K2/2GN DDR3-1800 Review
News Hardware
The kit can also run at DDR3-1066MHz on 1.5V. Timings at 1800MHz are 8-8-8 and at 1066MHz timings are 7-7-7. Test MachineI am using a test system for this review with the following specifications: OS- Windows Vista Ultimate SP1...
IT Managers could get the boot because of their office manners
News Security
A survey on office etiquette which polled more than 250 managers working in the technology/IT industry, has revealed that eating a colleague’s food from the fridge, or from their desk, was the worst offence that you could...
MPAA aims at taking The Pirate Bay down with $15.4m lawsuit
News Consumer
BitTorrent website The Pirate bay has been slapped with a $15.4m lawsuit bill from the MPAA (The Motion Picture Association of America) for copyright infringement. Surprisingly. the damages are being seeked for only four movies...
Google backs US Continental WiMax Consortium
News Hardware
Google has joined a crack team of technology companies who want to blanket cover the United States with a nationwide wireless network based on WiMax technology. The consortium, worth $14.5 billion, includes Bright House...
Apple TV to morph into a gaming console... really
News Hardware
The Apple TV is certainly the least successful Apple product of the late years; sandwiched between the uber hot iPhone, the gorgeous Airbook and the sublime iPodfamily, there's not much that's going for it. Or perhaps, that...
VoIP could be instrumental to Small Business success
News Mobile & Telco
Voice Over Internet Protocol or Voip could make life easier for freelancers and out of office workers as they try to close contracts and win new business said a council member of the Internet Telephony Services Providers'...
Is Google suffering a massive brain drain?
News Web
Google has already lost a number of high profile staff to Facebook and it seems the hemorrhage is far from over; the most recent employee to leave the company to go to Facebook is Elliot Schrage, Google's ex head of global...
Dolphin Cartoon to help children be web aware in drive for safety
News Security
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP) has come up with a cartoon series that will serve to illustrate to young children the dangers that they could face while online. The new online safety initiative aims at...
Comment : Protecting Virtual Infrastructures with Data Replication
News Hardware
Many organisations are adopting virtualisation technologies in their data centre to secure the benefits of increased hardware utilisation, reduced power consumption and simplified management. The reliability of this new...
Tech industry growing Europe-wide says EU Report
News Security
The European market for IT, telecommunications and digital consumer electronics (ICT) is expected to increase by three percent to 761 billion Euro in 2008. This is the latest forecast of the European Information Technology...
Carphone Warehouse/Best Buy alliance, what it means for the rest of us
News Hardware
Charles Dunstone, one of the most successful UK entrepreneurs in the recent years, has mastered a market changing deal with the US-based Best Buy partnership announced last week. The money that Best Buy has effectively injected...
Mobile Messaging to grow exponentially by 2011
News Hardware
A report by Messaging company Acision forecasts that revenues from mobile messaging will hit USD 165 billion globally by 2011, 40 percent more than the amount previously tabled by Analyst firm Ovum. Acision is well placed to...
