Over and over again, I hear this phrase from delegates at FIRST. I met XYZ at one of the FIRST conferences and they’ve really helped me out with XYZ problem.  Now these are comments from FIRST delegates, not marketing...

Missed this year's WWDC and seeing Steve Jobs releasing the latest 3G iPhone? Then why not grab the ultimate in development resources from Apple engineers and experts, including your ticket to Apple Worldwide Developers...

UK broadband users are still affected by slower speeds at peak times as broadband providers networks suffer congestion according to broadband analysts, Broadband.co.uk."With reliability of broadband speed now the consumers...

The recent launch of the Nintendo Wii-Fit showed that sometimes, the best deals (and availability) for bargains, are to be found across the Channel which is why the European Commission will be redoubling its efforts to remove...

It seems that the US is not alone in being a hotbed of criminal actyivity when it comes to cloned debit cards, as reports are surfacing about eight people being rounded up in Canada in connection with a debit card cloning scam...

Perhaps a sign of things to come, Motorola will debut its latest phone in the red hot Chinese market in July; the MotoZine ZN5 is also Motorola's first phone to be developed in partnership with Photography firm Kodak. The phone,...

I nearly dropped my cup of coffee onto my keyboard over the weekend when I read about a Californian hacker who was facing up to 38 years in prison for hacking into his school's computer system.Omar Khan, aged 18, is reported to...

For the second time this year, the technology behind the popular Oyster Card has been compromised after Dutch researchers unearthed yet another security flaw, an issue that could affect more than 17 million cards. Dr Bart Jacobs...

Research carried out by the Cambridge University and IT Provider Specialist SITA showed that passenger's mobile phone could be used as a snooping device by companies and inform passengers of any delays or changes that could occur...

Figures published by Internet Information Provider Firm, Comscore, showed that Facebook has outperformed Myspace in the race for the title of most popular social networking website. Facebook recorded a massive 162 percent...

A survey carried out by IT Infrastructure software company, Progress software, found out that less than half of UK's top IT executives have a place on their company boards or are involved in strategic, long term decisions. This...

The security patch MS08-030, which was aimed at solving a vulnerability of Bluetooth software, has failed to serve its purpose. Earlier this month, Microsoft had released the security patch MS08-030 to solve Windows XP's...

A recent survey by the security firm Cyber-Ark claims that at least one third of IT professionals at an organization access prohibited data. Almost one third IT professionals are found to illegally sneak a peek into the...

Northern Lights may be blamed for Satnav cockups and GPS devices failures according to researchers from the University of Bath; adding to the already long list of potential excuses which also includes electric storms and dodgy...

Last year I wrote the following blog on the FIRST Security conference. FIRST is essentially a non-profit making organisation.  Many of the speakers are commercially independent consultants working for businesses,...

In the late 90’s visiting network apparatchiks to Nokia would be shown some of the blue sky mobile services, such as WAP, SMS ringtones, interactive services and the like.   One of the knocked up concepts that got a...

The SSEM (Small Scale Experimental Machine) turned sixty on Saturday. Dubbed the Baby, it was turned on - literally - on the 21st of June 1948 in a small room in Manchester University and ran its first program with 128 bytes of...

More than 400 of the world's top internet crime fighters are in Vancouver this week for the 20th annual conference of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. Under the banner "Crossing Borders: Towards...

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-piracy system created by Microsoft that enforces Microsoft Windows online validation of the authenticity of several recent Microsoft operating systems when accessing several Microsoft...

This year’s annual FIRST conference is set in Vancouver, Canada. As cities go, many people have told me that it is in the top five cities that people would like to emigrate to.  With the many rooftop gardens and some...