I was dismayed to learn that Tsering Woeser, the prominent Tibetan poet and blogger, has been under attack from the Honker Union.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that the hacker group has broken into Woeser's...

According to the Tech Herald newspaper, WiFi networks are very vulnerable to hackers.Well, we know that already, but the paper refers to an alert issued this month by the FBI saying public that Wi-Fi hotspots in airports, fast...

In a recent interview he gave to Reuters, McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt said that his organization is looking forward to acquisition deals not beyond $350-million. Dave maintained that the company needn't to itself involve into large...

Mozilla Corp. has decided to upgrade its Firefox 3.0 with second release candidate that enables it to fix almost 40 known bugs. “There is a sufficient need to produce new release candidate”, said Mike Beltzner, chief...

BBC's iPlayer video on demand service has scored another winner by joining Virgin Media and fast becoming a massive player in the VoD market less than one year after it was launched. iPlayer will be available as a separate...

The Post Office has signed a five year contract with Logica CMG to help it in implementing two new Business Intelligence systems which is part of its new drive to boost profitability and how the Post office reacts to changes in...

Via has released more details of its low-power processor platform called Nano on which it is pinning its hopes of catching up with Intel as the latter floods the market with low cost laptops. Nano, previously known as Isaiah, is...

Up to 250,000 web pages could have been infected with an Adobe Flash player exploit which could spread like wildfire over the forthcoming weekend. The attacks seems to originate from mainland China and rely on a bug discovered...

Driven by the rising cost of energy, public opinion and government initiatives to cut carbon emissions, IT professionals are examining how they can improve their green credentials across all aspects of their operations.They want...

Italian telecommunication firm Tiscali could be split in two separate operations to increase its valuations as offers received were deemed too low. Vodafone is understood to have made the highest offer in an open bid but this...

Web developers will no longer have to wait for creating their different web applications with the search engine giant, Google, as the latter announces the opening of Google App Engine for the purpose. Google App will enable its...

Less than one year after Asus start selling its EEE PC laptop, Dell has decided to throw the proverbial gauntlet and enter the UCUP (Ultra Cheap, Ultra Portable) laptop arena with a yet-to-be-named laptop which looks like a mini...

A new report published today reveals that the current trend towards banning personal internet use in the workplace could be costing British businesses up to £4 billion every year due to a resulting decline in staff...

While many users are content to always shoot for maximum performance and are none too bothered by occasionally noisy cooling solutions, there are a significant number of people who would far rather look towards creating a silent...

I mean, it was great, but just didn't live up to their expectations. Earlier this year, I was in a position to try Crossfire with a pair of Radeon HD 3850s. My first attempts were much less than satisfactory, due to the...

The publishers were liable because the articles were viewed in France on the internet. Olivier Martinez, famous in the UK as an ex-boyfriend of Kylie Minogue, sued Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and Associated Newspapers for...

Prevent common, dangerous Web hacker attacks (like SQL injection, buffer overflows, cross-site scripting and request forgery, directory traversal, zero-day, brute force, and denial of service attacks) with this low-cost Microsoft...

The survey also found that almost half of the UK's companies conducted investigations into email leaks of confidential or sensitive data in the past year. The figures show UK companies to be more suspicious of and more rigorous...

More than 30 firms and government bodies have been fingered in a report published in the latest edition of Which? Magazine for ripping customers calling in on premium numbers for help. Numbers starting with 0871, 0870, 0844 or...

Today's announcement follows the company's admission earlier in the week that phone call records had been misused. The former monopoly incumbent operator, which is still 31.7% owned by the German government, is accused of...

The MK3252GSX offers the industries highest areal density per platter, at 251.6 gigabits per square inch. The drive's 5400 RPM motor speed, improves system-level performance by as much as 12 percent when compared to 4200 RPM. ...

The DNS-313 Single Bay Network Storage Enclosure, when used with internal SATA drives, enables you to share documents, files, and digital media such as music, photos, and video with everyone else on the home or office network. ...

The technologies that can be used as pseudo-wire can be Ethernet over MPLS, L2TPv3 or even GRE. There are two IETF standards track RFCs (RFC 4761 and RFC 4762) describing VPLS establishment.VPLS is a Virtual Private Network (VPN)...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that the charge "added significantly" to the cost of the computer. In a direct mail advert for Dell computers a £199 laptop computer was offered for sale, but one...