As a research team we come across a variety of interesting articles, papers and links ranging from cutting edge security research to silly web toys. We're constantly sharing information and commentary with one another and thought...

Interesting to read that high-tech fraudsters used packet sniffing technology to lift payment card data from eleven Dave & Buster's restaurant locations across the US over the last year.According to the Ars Technica...

If you're an IT veteran like yours truly, it's likely you'll have ordered electronic goodies from RS Components in Nuneaton, but it seems that one of the mail order store's employees has been lifting stuff and flogging it on...

In this week's connectivity podcast, Ben Chai interviews Owen Geddes, Director of Business Development at the Cloud.In this exclusive podcast, Owen Geddes looks at the benefit of the Cloud to business travellers and future...

Search engine Google has added 10 new languages to its free translation service bringing it to a whopping 23-language offering (ed : that's more than 500 language pairs) and has also added a "detect language" option. ...

I was reading a dealer moan in a mobile phone trade mag this week about the fact that most of his customers think his sales staff lie to get a sale. Well, they do. And for good reason. Dell sales staff lie. And they can do this...

Adobe could become one of the biggest content distributors overnight thanks to its newly released Flash 10 player which contains some very interesting P2P features including the ability to save files locally. According to...

UK-based Network Operator Vodafone has completed the acquisition of ZYB, a Denmark-based privately owned company which started life as an online contact book management tool but quickly evolved into a mobile social network...

Microsoft has announced that it has reached an agreement to get Windows XP running on the One Lapotp Per Child XO laptop. The customised Windows XP for OLPC version will not support the mesh feature that would allow laptops to...

Hundreds of jobs could be on the line as DSG, who own Currys.Digital and the PC World brands, has presented plans to boost its profitability by shuttering 77 under performing Currys.Digital stores. Its Chief Executive, John...

Apple and Telefonica, O2's parent company, will have a joint announcement in the next few weeks according to O2 Telefonica Europe boss Matthew Key. He refused to say whether 3G iPhones will be part of the agenda but did tease...

The increasing popularity of legal download websites such as Apple's iTunes and Tesco's Digital store has not slowed down the negative impact of illegal downloads on the music industry. Results of a report released by research...

Asus has brokered a deal with DeviceVM to include embedded Linux Operating System on Asus motherboards as from next month. While component manufacturers have been giving out free software including Linux distribution on shiny...

Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates, disclosed his vision of the future during a speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit called "The Next Wave of Technology". One of the highlights of his speech was his demonstration of the...

I've been fortunate enough to have reviewed several of their offerings over the past few years and have been impressed with nearly all. Last fall, while I still had a scrap of spare time left in my daily routine, Logitech was...

Admittedly, we thought it was interesting to see a new GeForce series launch, not with the flagship card, but rather with a new midrange offering. It makes perfect sense, though, considering that more people can afford midrange...

However, rather than simply taking a look at this SKU on its own, this time around we'll be examining how much of a performance advantage it offers over NVIDIA's current top of the range single GPU offerings, the GeForce 8800 GTS...

The Dell Vostro 1700 is a 17-inch machine and being a business machine, the first thing you’ll notice about this notebook is the build quality. Dell hasn’t cut any corners, offering a body made from magnesium alloy...

Telecoms company BT has added 94,000 new customers to its Television service in the first three months of 2008 according to figures released yesterday in its quarterly results report. The service, called BT Vision, ...

In addition to what is provided by the computer's physical hardware display, virtual desktops provide a "virtual" space, in which the user can place their applications' windows. Each virtual desktop occupies a defined...

1st Desktop Guard lets you prevent your desktop icons from getting rearranged, stop users from changing desktop wallpaper and screen saver, secure your public access computers, save, restore, manage, and lock desktop layouts....

These days you'll see a lot of people carrying one everywhere on their keyring.These are USB2.0 flash drives (pen drives). USB2.0 gives increased speeds for convenience.Perfect for transferring files between PCs, laptops or any...

The Executive 800 offers colour scans and a fast 3-second scan while the sleek design benefits from new contemporary styling, an elegant silver finish and it's streamlined profile easily fits on the desk in harmony with any...

The company has been the subject of controversy over its decision to re-broadcast the UK's five terrestrial television channels without the stations' permission, relying on an exemption in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act...

Edwin is a wizard-based software application for creating Web-service based (Service Oriented Architecture - SOA) data layers from the structure of your underlying data source. All data-sources accessible via OLE-DB are...

Here’s one trying to tell the user they are missing Flash.  Notice how convincing it is: What’s actually pushed is the trojan MediaTubeCodec. (In case you’re wondering, Flash is certainly installed on that...

This is a utility for Windows that converts any HTML code into a script tag with JavaScript enclosed within it. When displayed in a Web browser, like IE, the JavaScript will expand itself and decode into original HTML code, so...

When selecting a recovery site, careful consideration should be given to its location. In particular, the distance from the live site is important. Too close and you risk it being affected by the same incident that denies access...