Articles Posted on 01 July 2008
Acer Aspire One Ultra Cheap Ultra Portable Laptop, £234.94
News Hardware
The Aspire one is more than just another ultra-mobile notebook: it’s an all-new communication device designed to deliver continuous access to the internet and a simplified wireless experience no matter where you are. The...
Netherlands man arrested for hacking 50,000 credit cards
News Security
Scanning the weekend wires, I was amazed to read on the Dutch newswires about a 20-year-old Maastricht man who has been arrested and accused of hacking and stealing the details of 50,000 payment cards on t'Internet.It seems that...
MasterCard Canada details plans for on-board security chip
News Security
It seems that plans I reported on last month to add an onboard chip and basic keypad to credit/debit cards are marching onwards, as MasterCard Canada has started talking about the technology.As I reported last month, the gameplan...
Security Firm Offers USD 1 million in Data Encryption Challenge
News Security
Security Firm Permanent Privacy has launched the world's first practical data encryption system that is apparently absolutely unbreakable. And it is offering a $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can crack it. The technology...
Warner Joins Nokia's Comes With Music Scheme
News Consumer
Nokia's "Comes With Music" service has managed to recruit Warner Music Group, the third major music company, leaving only EMI. Sony BMG and Universal had already signed for Nokia's much talked about scheme; Warner...
Resurgent AMD Releases Quad Core Phenom Triplets
News Mobile & Telco
AMD has released three new quad core Phenom X4 CPU today, with the 140W 2.6GHz 9950 model leading the way - although there's not much to expect against Intel's all conquering Quad Core parts which should trounce AMD's CPUs...
New Guidelines To Help ISPs Eliminate Spam Faster
News Security
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has published guidelines that should help internet service providers improve the way they fend off spam attacks. The group suggests that ISPs should block the "port 25"...
UK PC Market Boosted by Laptops and Falling Prices
News Hardware
More than 3.25 million cmoputers were sold in the UK in the first quarter of 2008 according to IDC, that's a healthy 14.3 percent increase over the same period last year. Laptops are the leaders with a massive 42 percent...
McAfee Spam-A-Thon Finds That Fraudsters Prefer UK
News Security
Security Firm McAfee Launched An Experiment Called S.P.A.M (Spammed Persistently All Month) in back in April 2008 and results just released show that UK citizens are a particularly targeted species, especially amongst Nigerian...
Google, Yahoo and Adobe Collaborate To Make Flash Search Easier
News Web
Adobe has announced that it will provide Google and Yahoo (but not archrival Microsoft or lesser minnow Ask) with Flash player technology to help the two big search companies improve the way they spider content in the Flash's...
Fake Gate : Why Ebay Defeat Means Auction Site Faces Million Dollar Fines
News Software
Ebay has suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hand of a French court which could have long term effects on the way the world's largest online auction company runs its business on a day to day business. Ebay, which ironically...
Asus to Make EEE PC Laptop Fatter
News Software
According to the recent reports, Asus is planning to discard the Eee PC frame that shot the ultra-small laptop to fame.Reports also suggest that the company is absolutely prepared to replace the Eee PC 901 and Eee PC 900 with two...
Toshiba Qosmio x305 Gaming Notebook - 9800M GTX Graphics
News Software
Toshiba has some great looking notebooks in the Qosmio series, both in terms of the internal hardware and the overall look of the notebook. The Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook will be released in mid-July and is already making...
IT Biggies Unite Themselves Against Patent Litigation
News Security
According to Wall Street Journal report, prominent IT companies like Google, Verizon Communications, Cisco Systems are planning to purchase “intellectual property” as soon as possible, so that others cannot utilize it...
Telecom Giant Vodafone And MySpace Partner Over New Music Project
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone is going to team up with MySpace, a popular social networking site to start up an all new musical internet marketing platform. MySpace and Vodafone have joined hands to launch an innovative music-based internet...
Creative Launches Zen X-Fi, another iTouch Competitor
News Hardware
No, there's no touchscreen and no you can't access the Internet, but the Zen X-Fi can pretty much do everything else that a Portable Media Player is supposed to do; play videos and music tracks. But it does come with Wi-Fi...
Backup
News Hardware
In information technology, backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. These additional copies are typically called "backups."...
Recover My Files 3.9.8.6053
News Security
Recover My Files data recovery software will quickly and easily recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus or Trojan infection, unexpected system...
Amaya for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista 10.1 Pre2 Beta
News Security
Amaya is a browser/authoring tool that allows you to publish documents on the Web. It is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a "WYSIWYG style" of interface, similar to that of the...
UK surveillance breaches human rights, rules ECHR
News Security
The judgment follows a nine-year battle over phone and internet taps The Court found that the UK's wide and secretive surveillance laws are "not in accordance with the law" and that they violate the right to privacy...
Reviewing Working Practices
News Hardware
It is always a good idea to review working practices and personal productivity. Businesses can do this by examining the way their staff work and identify what are the top time wasters. These can include people's inability to...
Vendor/Channel relationships... They are a changing
News Hardware
Now that we are fast approaching the last half of 2008, it’s worth reflecting on how the growth in globalisation has impacted on the type of relationships vendors and their channel have today and how this has opened up...
