I was mildly amused to hear that US brokerage houses are crying fraud after a Californian man managed to extract more than $50,000 by opening thousands of online brokerage accounts in recent months.It seems that US online...

I'm indebted to the Grauniad for pointing out that price comparison sites that point punters at the cheapest price for a given item don't always vet the sites they refer to.It seems that a Web site called Householduk.co.uk has...

A recent J D Power survey shows a near four times increase in the proportion of smartphones sales over 2007, from 1.7 per cent to 6.3 per cent.  This can only improve as and when the 3G iPhone and Treo 850 are launched, and...

You have to applaud Microsoft's nonchalance as Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates discussed the forthcoming Windows 7 Operating System at All Things Digital event in San Francisco while the company's own Vista is struggling to convince...

Akamai released their ‘State of the Internet Report’ on May 29, which evaluates the current condition of the World Wide Web on the basis of several parameters such as broadband penetration, security, and speed. ...

Broadband specialist H2O Networks has just completed roll out of a new communications infrastructure at Tendring District Council. The new infrastructure will provide a high speed data link between the council's three buildings -...

We're still in H1 2008 but some companies are already looking forward to 2009 and beyond; Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins, has already announced that 2009 will be the year when the storage giant will launch its first Solid State...

If you can't beat them, join them.... Samsung did just that by bundling Apple's Mobile Browser in its latest phone, the SGH-L870 mobile phone which bears an uncanny resemblance to Nokia's E65. The handset is set to be released...

Supermarket Behemoth Tesco has signed a five year contract worth £100m with Cable and Wireless to upgrade their telecommunications network and bring in support for VoIP phones. Tesco is expected to save north of £10m...

There’s a twist today though, because this monitor isn't quite so easily categorised as it actually sports a quirky 21.6-inch screen diagonal making it marginally smaller than the 22-inch masses. Quite what the advantage of...

This makes things easier: No phishing site to have to maintain. No browser-based phishing filters to worry about.This particular one posts to a account hosted in California. (The images are all pulled from PayPal, like this one,...

Protect your PC from abusive use of removable media and enforce whether your users are allowed to use removable media or access your local drives. This software lets you hide, lock and prevent usage of local, network, and Floppy...

The Samsung Spinpoint F1 drive offers a superior combination of density, recording quality and reliability. This 3Gbps SATA drive has a maximum of 334GB of formatted capacity per disk while also featuring Samsung's...

After a lengthy round of discussions that were actually not leading anywhere, Fujitsu decided to end its contract with the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH).The major bone of contention in this case was the fees that Fujitsu was...

From 1st January 2009, travel firms and tour operators selling such products, known as Connected Travel Insurance, or CTI, will need to be fully authorised by the Financial Services Authority. Alternatively, they may choose...

The Acer Aspire 8920 is the 18.4" widescreen notebook with FULL HD 1920x1080 resolution designed to immerse the most advanced home entertainment users into the Gemstone blue concept. It features the stunning Acer...

The Internet search giant, Google, unveiled a version of its new open-source mobile phone platform, AndroidThough the Google people remained as silent as ever, it is rumoured that the development of the Android will be complete...

Apple Inc. recently released Mac OS X 10.5.3, which is an important update to the Mac OS X Leopard with respect to security.According to the company sources, this update includes many fixes that will improve the compatibility,...

The link-layer protocols of the virtual network are said to be tunneled through the larger network when this is the case. One common application is secure communications through the public Internet, but a VPN need not have...

After completing an extensive review of the website bbc.co.uk, the BBC Trust announced on May 29 that the Corporation flagship website went over budget by approximately £36m in the past year. The Service Licence baseline...

Just two short months ago, the dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 arrived on-scene and crushed the competition.  Mere days later the GeForce 9800 GTX launched and offered a decent price point for a modern replacement of the GeForce...

The importance of effective crisis management cannot be overstated. But if we’re going to effectively manage a crisis, we really ought to know when we’re having one!The characteristics of a crisis...

The first place companies will feel the heat when summer arrives will be in their computer room or data centre. Most computer rooms and data centres are built with cooling systems to keep internal temperatures safely below 220C....