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Articles Posted on 09 July 2008

FIRST Program Chair: Podcast

FIRST Program Chair: Podcast

News Security

Over the last few years, the FIRST conference program has been evolving in order to help CERT teams and corporations around the world keep abreast of the threat landscape and to enable corporations to share their information in a...


BBC iPlayer - pushing ISP bandwidth through the roof

BBC iPlayer - pushing ISP bandwidth through the roof

News Security

I was lucky enough to visit the offices of Plus.net, the Sheffield-based ISP, this morning, where the products director Neil Armstrong kindly spent some time explaining how the major ISP handles its traffic at peak times.The...


Barclays claims zero fraud amongst first million card readers

Barclays claims zero fraud amongst first million card readers

News Security

Barclays has made the interesting claim of experiencing no fraud whatsoever amongst a million users of its Gemalto card readers, who use the devices to secure their e-banking sessions.According to newswire reports, the bank...


WWW Inventor Calls For Endangered Web To Be Protected

WWW Inventor Calls For Endangered Web To Be Protected

News Business & Government

The man who invented the world wide web is now calling for it to be preserved as a platform for innovation by keeping it open and free for all. Tim Berners Lee has exhorted researchers, the public and private sectors to expand...


Meet Lively, Google's Just Released Virtual World

Meet Lively, Google's Just Released Virtual World

News Business & Government

Google has presented a beta version of brand new Virtual world called Lively (motto : Express yourself in rooms you create) and is being presented a a 3D Virtual Experience straight from Google Labs. The project started life as a...


Microsoft Cautions Its Users Against MS Access Database Flaw

Microsoft Cautions Its Users Against MS Access Database Flaw

News Security

Microsoft researchers have warned users of a new potential attack on its Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which allows users to view Access report snapshot without using the standard version of Microsoft Office Access. ...


Microsoft Eyeing Yahoo! Yet Again, Mulls Plans To Oust Board

Microsoft Eyeing Yahoo! Yet Again, Mulls Plans To Oust Board

News Security

Microsoft seems to be a rather persistent contender, even after the failed deal with Yahoo! in January, Microsoft, it seems that it is just waiting for the opportune moment to pounce on Yahoo!. The man who can make...


MEPs Backs the New Telecom Amendments

MEPs Backs the New Telecom Amendments

News Security

Despite resistance from several Digital Rights Groups, the Members of European Parliament (MEPs) have voted in favour of new amendments in telecom laws, which are proposed to check illicit file sharing across internet. MEPs have...


Prospects of Black Market 3G iPhones Frenzy Loom As O2 Clocks 13,000 Orders Per Second

Prospects of Black Market 3G iPhones Frenzy Loom As O2 Clocks 13,000 Orders Per Second

News Consumer

O2 has only received a fraction of what it has ordered with Apple, prompting fears of "very short supply for some week to come", according to an email received by a customer from none-other than O2 sales director Steve...


Peers Committee Reports Slow Progress in Tackling UK Cybercrime

Peers Committee Reports Slow Progress in Tackling UK Cybercrime

News Security

A Report from House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology has revealed that the UK government is responding rather slowly to instances of cybercrime that are cropping out throughout the country. Though the committee has...


Sony Finally Upgrades Its Micro Memory Card To 8GB

Sony Finally Upgrades Its Micro Memory Card To 8GB

News Hardware

Sony Ericsson has come up with its 8GB memory card for its mobile phone users but for most it is too little too late. Rival mobile phone manufacturers have already introduced their 8GB mobile phone memory cards eons ago. ...


Apple resting to 9 in the ‘burbs

Apple resting to 9 in the ‘burbs

News Consumer

If you’re desperate for an iPhone 3G, didn’t crash into the O2 web site on Monday and live in the sticks, you have an extra hour of snooze time on Friday morning. Perfect if you have a pre-launch party hangover. ...


T-Mobile to launch Google Android Phone Fairly Soon Say Rumour Mongers

T-Mobile to launch Google Android Phone Fairly Soon Say Rumour Mongers

News Hardware

The rumour mills are buzzing again and they say T-Mobile is all set to come out with Google’s Android phone this October when T-Mobile USA goes the 3G way. Everyone has their eye on the launch of Google’s Android...


DreamWorks And Intel Forge Partnership To Improve Cartoon Factory

DreamWorks And Intel Forge Partnership To Improve Cartoon Factory

News Mobile & Telco

DreamWorks Animation has decided to collaborate with Intel to use its high performance chips to create groundbreaking 3D animation. The future of animation looks bright as DreamWorks Animation has decided to use Intel’s...


Hardware Security Module (HSM)

Hardware Security Module (HSM)

News Security

It is a plug-in card (PCI) or external device (RS232/SCSI/IP/USB/PCMCIA) for a general purpose computer and may even be an embedded system itself. The job of the HSM is to securely generate and/or store long term secrets for use...


CheckMail 5.0.2

CheckMail 5.0.2

News Security

Powerful POP3 email checking program which notifies you when you have new emailCheckMail is a powerful POP3 email checking program which notifies you when you have received new email. It allows you to check all your email...


UK-IPO asks if research exemption in patent law is too vague

UK-IPO asks if research exemption in patent law is too vague

News Security

The move follows the very first recommendation of the 2006 Gowers Review of Intellectual Property commissioned by the Treasury.There is an exemption to the Patents Act for research work, which is designed to ensure that patent...


Acoo Browser 1.87.584

Acoo Browser 1.87.584

News Software

Powerful multi-tabbed browser with recoverable Popup Blocker and Ads FilterAcoo Browser is a powerful multi-tabbed Web browser based on the Internet Explorer engine. It provides a user-friendly GUI interface, including tabbed...


Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 on the Dell M1730

Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 on the Dell M1730

News Hardware

Dell Offers Users The Ultimate Mobile Processor - Intel X9000It has been a long time since I've written about notebooks since I've been busy looking at desktop hardware, but I finally had the time to dedicate to one very nice...


AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition CPU Review

AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition CPU Review

News Hardware

The AMD Phenom faced a fairly rocky start, but the guys in green are trucking forward and have started releasing new processors into the wild These new chips are of a different stepping, and feature fixes for many of the...


Comment : EU mobile operators are unable to stop price gouging even when their own numbers say they should

Comment : EU mobile operators are unable to stop price gouging even when their own numbers say they should

News Hardware

The GSMA (global trade association representing more than 750 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 territories) recently released data  showing that a 25% decrease in data roaming costs between April 2007 and April 2008...

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