Articles Posted on 20 June 2008
Asus Eee Box to Hit Stores in August
News Hardware
Asus is all set to launch a cutting edge desktop PC named the Asus Eee Box in August.The Asus Eee Box is a low power, eco friendly, challenger to the conventional PC.The Eee Box is powered by the Intel Atom N270 and contains 1GB...
Dundee: First Scottish ‘Fibrecity'
News Hardware
Dundee is about to become the first Scottish 'Fibrecity', delivering ultra high speed connectivity to its residents with broadband speeds of up to 100 Mbps.The installation work is scheduled to start in 2009 and about 55,000...
Apple's New Milestone: iTunes Sells Over 5 Billion Songs
News Mobile & Telco
Apple has announced this week that it has now sold 5 billion songs through its iTunes store, making it the No 1 music retailer in the U.S ahead of WalMart.The iTunes store is also renting and selling videos in the order of fifty...
Business Continuity Plans: the art of self deception
News Hardware
When it hasn’t been proven. Or when the assumptions it contains haven’t been validated. Or when it’s out of date. Or when no-one knows about it.It sounds obvious doesn’t it? But for many organisations this...
Firefox 3.0 Encounters Foggy Weather Thanks To Bug
News Software
A bug has been detected in the Firefox 3.0 browser only five hours after its launch.The unspecified bug allegedly allows hackers to execute remote codes, making it a critical flaw, security firm Tipping Point reported.Tipping...
Firefox 3.0 Gets Grand Response On Its First Day
News Software
With the release of the Firefox 3.0 browser, Mozilla might just enter the Guinness Book of World Records, for the whopping eight million hits for download in a single day.Within the 24 hours of the software release, it...
IBM’s Roadrunner Runs Fastest
News Consumer
After clocking an astounding 1.026 petaflops per second IBM’s Roadrunner was all set to become the world’s fastest supercomputer and the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden finally made it...
Sainsbury's online shopping site frozen
News Security
A fault in the system has apparently left the supermarket chain unable to access customer orders.Sainsbury's officials have promised to contact directly "customers whose deliveries have been affected, in a note on their...
Internet Addiction 'A Clinical Disorder', claims Psychiatrist
News Web
Psychiatrist Dr. Jerald Block in an editorial for the American Journal Of Psychiatry claims that compulsive Internet use is a medical disorder that needs to be treated. Symptoms include neclegcting fundamental needs such as...
Samsung's "Instinct" Ready To Hit Market
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung is all set to dazzle the cell phone market with its Instinct Touchscreen phone that comes with a surprisingly affordable price tag.Sprint, a leading US mobile service provider, is making a big marketing push with Instinct...
Teenagers face Jail for Hacking School Grades
News Security
Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, both 18, allegedly broke into Tesoro High School and used teachers' passwords to revise their own and other classmates' grades, replacing Cs and Fs with As.Khan is also accused of stealing tests before...
MessageSave for Microsoft Outlook 4.0.3
News Security
Archive, backup and save Outlook e-mail with MessageSave. MessageSave supports "msg", "txt", "eml" and "mbox" file formats. MessageSave supports manual, scheduler and rule-based modes and...
ATI Radeon HD 4870 Performance Preview
News Hardware
But the HD 4850 was only the first round in the salvo being fired at NVIDIA, and today we take a look at the 4850’s big brother: the Radeon HD 4870. Like the HD 4850, the HD 4870 is also based on AMD’s new RV770 chip,...
Super Micro C2SBX+
News Mobile & Telco
However, this company has been around since 1993 and they have been producing a variety of different motherboards, servers, computer enclosures, and other products to fit the needs of their customers. Super Micro manufacturers a...
WikiScanner
News Security
WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) is a tool created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007, which consists of a publicly searchable database that links millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to the...
Citibank servers hacked - engineers draw cash for free
News Security
According to news reports, two men have made a small fortune after they hacked into a Citibank server that processes ATM transactions for the bank across North America.The two men - from Brooklyn - are said to have managed to...
NebuAd hits the news - for all the wrong reasons
News Security
It looks like a new online advertising firm - NebuAd - has upset the industry with its new ad format.According to newswire reports, the company pays ISPs to monitor traffic generated in response to its ads.But, say the newswires,...
Camera phones and social networking - Should have guessed this problem
News Mobile & Telco
With camera phones having become indispensible and social networking migrating to the mobile, the combination of the two is now having some embarrassing side effects.The naked pictures that a student in Ohio took of her self...
No Updated Security Software? Banks May Not Refund You in case of Fraud
News Security
I'm more than a little cheesed off with the British Bankers Association (the BBA), the banks' representative body, and its vague attitude to IT security.Late last year I became aware that the UK banks were less than happy with...
