Ken Van Wyk has been an elected representative on the steering committee for over a decade and has worked in many different positions. These positions are volunteer positions so each committee member each give a substantial amont...

Trust in Data Now the point here is to ensure that the data hasn’t been tampered with. However I would say that you cannot trust any piece of data unless you trust the person and the application that has enabled the dWhat...

Trust In People Seriously where do you really want to start? After decades of computer support experience, I just don't believe we can ever have trust in people – end of! Perhaps one of the most famous Internet...

One of the great things about FIRST is that they’ll have one speaker talk about a topic and another speaker that gives you a slightly different view and sometimes very opposite perspectives.   I felt...

If my recent experience is anything to go by, Tom Alexander, Orange’s CEO, will have to accelerate changes in his organisation if he wants to retain small business users.A small business decided to properly deploy Exchange...

Speaking on the occasion of Intel’s 40th anniversary, Intel’s senior VP, Pat Gelsinger, has stated that its x86 processor architecture will be seen everywhere, from supercomputers to small embedded devices. Gelsinger...

iPhone has got a new web based version of Google Talk made specially for iPhone and iPod Touch users. All an iPhone user has to do is direct their safari browser to www.google.com/talk to use the web application. The web...

Oracle is planning to integrate BEA's offerings the same way it did after the Siebel and PeopleSoft acquisitions and it promises to give full support to BEA products. The company also said the middleware vendors that BEA will...

Microsoft has made yet another attempt to take over a part of Yahoo. According to recent reports, Microsoft is not going to give up convincing Yahoo Search to surrender itself to the software giant. Microsoft is reported to be...

Scientists are developing a new device, sat-nav, which can provide information about the traffic-jams ahead. Although, the market already has smart satellite navigation systems, which inform drivers about the probable stoppages...

Following a lawsuit between Viacom and Google, Judge Stanton has asked Google to release the records of all the people who ever saw a video on YouTube to ViacomYouTube has been accused of copyright infringement by media giant...

Customers of Virgin’s broadband connection were in for a shock as they received letters that told them that they had been sharing music illegally, what’s more is that the envelopes warned the customers that if they...

Civil Liberties Groups have sued the US Government over their actions used to track individuals through cell phones The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union have confronted the US Department of...

Firefox 3.0 has finally earned an entry into the prestigious Guinness Book of World Records, for maximum number of downloads in a single day. Download count for Firefox 3.0 clocked a mammoth 8,002,530 on its famous...

Taiwanese device manufacturer, OpenMoko, is all set to hit the market with the Neo FreeRunner, a sleek touch screen handset. OpenMoko has launched its open source Linux handset and hopes give a tough competition to its rival...

Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data (records, hardware, software, etc.), communications (incoming, outgoing,...

We are taking a look at Palit's Sonic version of the card, which comes pre-overclocked, doubles the memory and includes adapters for both HDMI and VGA.NVIDIA's 9-series cards came out only a few months ago, and while the overall...

Unfortunately, driver issues and a less than efficient reference design cooler kept the HD3870x2 from any real fame at that time.  Fast forward four months to the present day.  Driver issues are worked out and...

Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that...

Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like...

I used to find it one of the most desirable mobile phones going, but now I'm beginning to hate it. Yes, I'm talking about the iPhone. Or rather, the 3G edition, which is due into O2 and Apple stores next week.After initially...