Articles Posted on 16 July 2008
Detroit mayor blames sexy texts on hackers
News Security
I'm indebted to the Wonkette Web portal for reporting that Kwame Kilpatrick - described by the media as the laughable clown of a mayor of Detroit in the US - has blamed hackers for gaining access to his mobile and generating sexy...
Chinese man gets two years for hacking Red Cross site
News Security
I was quite surprised to read that a 23-year-old Chinese guy has been given two years in clink for hacking into a Red Cross Web site, until I read further that he'd been asking for earthquake relief funds to be sent to his...
Redfly Mobile Companion : A brilliant idea and the must have accessory for WINMO devices summer 2008
News Mobile & Telco
I’ve been using a Redfly for about a month now, and I think that it’s one of the best accessories for a Windows Mobile smartphone that I have ever seen.It looks like a laptop which makes people think that it’s a...
Apple Makes 55 Percent Profit on New iPhone Says iSuppli
News Consumer
Market Intelligence Firm iSuppli ripped a brand new iPhone apart and, after having conducted a thorough analysis of its innards, have estimated that it costs Apple only USD 173 to build. That's USD 50 less than the initial 8GB...
BT-Bashing Broadband Ad Lands Orange In Hot Waters With ASA
News Mobile & Telco
Triple Play Mobile Provider Orange has been criticised by the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) for falsely claiming that BT customers could save nearly £200 if they switched from BT's Broadband Option 3 and BT Together...
Collaboration Tools Are Key To Effective Workflow Within Entreprises says Survey
News Cloud
Today internal teams are demanding effective collaboration and the CTO has to find the appropriate tools that create an environment where his users can collaborate and manage projects effectively. In a recent Forrester Research...
Sony Starts Business VAIO Laptop Range With Three New Models
News Software
Sony has announced the launch of a new business range under the VAIO banner, 10 years after the brand was launched for consumers- three freshly-released laptops will form part of the VAIO business segment for now. The three...
Comment : Are SMEs maximising the potential of hosted VoIP?
News Hardware
In today’s telecoms marketplace, the industry hype surrounding the predicted and increasing success of advanced hosted VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) platforms, is fast infiltrating business infrastructure of all...
Yahoo Google Ad Deal Under Scrutiny From The US House Of Representatives Judiciary Committee
News Security
Last month’s ad deal between Yahoo! and Google has flared the issue of monopolising the search engine market, as the deal is being testified in Congress for violation of ‘Antitrust Law’. The deal, which...
Rock Rises From Its Ashes With More Xtreme and Pegasus Laptops
News Software
The Stone-owned Rock computers has launched new laptops in its Pegasus and Xtreme range nearly two months after Rock Group was purchased out of Administration. The Xtreme range is for gamers while the Pegasus range is the...
Microsoft Says Kids are Worst Software Pirates on Net
News Software
After a report on DVD piracy from the analyst firm Futuresource Consulting, another document on piracy has been published, this time from the software giant Microsoft. In a survey conducted in UK, Microsoft revealed that...
Palm Launches New Blackberry-esque Treo 800w In Smartphone Segment
News Mobile & Telco
New mobile handset launches seems to be the flavour of the month as after Apple and LG, Palm Inc. and Sprint Nextel have also officially unleashed a new handset, the Palm Treo 800w, said to be most suited to business class.New...
1,800 IT Jobs To Be Offshore As Barclays Slashes Costs
News Business & Government
As many as 1,800 IT jobs in global infrastructure and service delivery wing of Barclays Bank will be axed in UK in next three years, primarily owing to the bank outsourcing and offshoring these posts.Around 700 jobs will be...
Lenovo to Embed Vodafone Broadband in Business Laptops
News Hardware
Mobile Service Provider Vodafone has announced that it will be bundling its mobile broadband SIM in laptops made by Lenovo without any additional costs; the move is seen as some as astute strategy to get more customers without...
YouTube can hide user details in massive Viacom data dump
News Security
The user IDs and internet protocol (IP) addresses of everyone who has ever watched a video on YouTube will not now be sent by its parent company Google to Viacom after a climb-down by the television company As part of its $1...
Apple's exact iPhone image reproduction saves it from censure
News Security
Apple has been cleared of misleading potential iPhone customers by exaggerating the quality of its display. The UK's advertising watchdog rejected a complaint that a London Underground poster showed better quality pictures than...
Custodia AntiVirus with Personal Firewall 20.44.11
News Security
Protect your PC against viruses, trojans, worms, and other forms of malwareActive protection against viruses, Trojans, worms, and other forms of malware. Featuring innovative and patented technology to scan, detect, and remove...
59 percent of UK Broadband Home Users have wireless network, says survey
News Hardware
A survey carried out by Research company Yougov on behalf of Network company Linksys to show the current state of wireless home networking in the UK market found out that the majority of Broadband users are now wirelessly...
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
News Hardware
The joy of overclocking a CPU comes from the knowledge that you have bought, a lower end product and have gotten the performance of a higher priced, higher end product for a much lower price. But by doing so you usually put...
Acer P243WAid 24" LCD
News Hardware
In the past we have looked at several different Acer LCDs and generally have been quite pleased with them. Acer offers LCD panels that range from cost-effective 17" models to higher-end models that are much larger and...
WinSpeedUp 2.8
News Security
WinSpeedUp is an application that lets you tune and optimize Windows to suit your computing environment and needs. With access to Windows' hidden system options, programs can start faster, unnecessary files can be deleted from...
Epson Stylus DX4400 all in one colour printer/scanner/copier, £25 at Asda
News Security
Ideal for all types of applications from school projects and web printing to photos, the Epson Stylus DX4400 can be used connected to your home PC or simply used as a colour photocopier in standalone mode The Epson Stylus DX4400...
HP 530 Laptop Intel Celeron M 520 with 2GB Memory and Vista OS, £269.97 delivered
News Hardware
With the choice of processors, a 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen BrightView display, and ample hard drive capacity, this notebook helps keep you connected and productive around the office and on the road Who says you can't have it...
Apple Cans iTunes Price Cuts Because Of Economic Downturn
News Mobile & Telco
Apple will not reduce the price of iTunes songs from 79p to put it in line with mainland Europe customers as it had promised earlier this year as Euro/Sterling exchange rates now mean that 79p is roughly equivalent to 99 Euro...
A new service by a company called LiquidID is mildly interesting.
News Security
One of the potential hazards of OpenID is that your email address might get compromised and then life won’t be fun anymore. However, if you login with a LiquidID account, each OpenID site has its own alias through...
Secondary storage
News Hardware
Secondary storage, or storage in popular usage, differs from primary storage in that it is not directly accessible by the CPU. The computer usually uses its input/output channels to access secondary storage and transfers...
How simple security solutions can prevent a dramatic drain on human resource
News Security
I was shocked by the results of a recent survey that showed nearly 50 per cent of job seeking employees spend over an hour every working day searching for a new job online. If this is a true reflection of reality, and it could...
Business Continuity is a Risky Business…
News Hardware
Risk is unavoidable. All businesses, whatever their size, are constantly faced with risks, large and small. Indeed, businesses can only prosper by successful risk taking. The objective for any business must therefore be to strike...
