Articles Posted on 17 July 2008
Mobile data - how high (a bill) can you go?
News Security
A report on El Reg this week about a Norwich-based customer of Vodafone who received a bill for £588,000 worth of calls made me smile.It seems that what annoyed the punter more than anything was Vodafone's billing...
Romania arrests 20-plus cybercrime suspects
News Security
Interesting to see that the authorities over in Romania have arrested more than 20 peeps in connection with a major cybercrime ring.The group, who were arrested on Tuesday of this week, are thought to have accounted for around...
Opera Mobile 9.5 out in Beta
News Web
Good news for mere mortals (those not carrying an iPhone), Opera have released their Beta Opera browser for Microsoft Mobile.Considering the truly appalling Microsoft Mobile Explorer, the Opera browser is well up to the standards...
Survey Finds Out One In Nine Children Had Online Sex Conversations
News Security
Nearly half of all children have lied to their parents about what they do online according to the annual Mobile Life Poll carried out by Carphone Warehouse amongst 6000 adults and children in UK and US.A worrying 11 percent of...
O2 Follows BT, Plans 100mbps Broadband Offers
News Hardware
BT won't be alone in the race for the first UK provider to deliver broadband services capable of 50mbps; O2 is also considering plans to launch its own fibre-to-the-home network but is awaiting on Ofcom to amend telecoms...
Mozilla Brings In Critical Security Patches For Firefox 2 and 3
News Software
Mozilla scrambled to release Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1 updates in a bid to decrease the possibility of a full-on attack by hackers against the open source browser users.The updates will address critical flaws present in...
Slow Economy Forces Manufacturers Slash PC Prices
News Hardware
Figures released by a pair of Analyst Firms show that the PC market is growing fast although the average selling price of computers continue to fall and made worst by the current global market conditions.Gartner and IDC say that...
AOL Could Replace Yahoo As A Potential Microsoft Acquisition Target, Says WSJ
News Web
Microsoft seems to be on an acquisition roll as the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company might be interested in combining AOL and Microsoft's Online divisions.Executives from both companies, the respected news...
Opera releases Brand New Beta Mobile Browser, Takes on Mobile Firefox
News Web
An ongoing background battle is taking place between Webkit, Firefox and Opera as the number of Mobile Internet Users are expected to grow tremendously in the next few years due to the proliferation of even better smartphones and...
Samsung Unleashes Fully-Loaded L201 10MP Digital Camera
News Security
Samsung has launched a new addition to L series of digital cameras, L201, which is fully loaded for snapping freaks.The L201 is a 10.2 megapixel camera with 2.7 inch wide LCD screen, it includes 3x optical zoom lens, and it has...
Google Is On The Rise In UK Says Survey
News Security
The web monitoring firm Hitwise conducted a recent survey of major search engine players in UK and US, and there are no surprises as to who tops the list for yet another quarter.It's Google again, with a massive market share of...
UK Information Commissioner Sees Super-Database as “A Step Too Far”
News Security
Speaking at the release of Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Annual Report 2008, The Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, stated that the much hyped “super-database”, which would contain a...
Apple To Take Legal Action Against Psystar For Making Mac Clones
News Hardware
Amidst its much hyped 3G iPhone launch celebration, computer maker Apple has sued Miami-based Psystar for manufacturing and selling unauthorized clones of Mac. In a lawsuit filed against Psystar in District Court of Northern...
Tape is back in Vogue as Terabyte Tape and SuperDAT come to Life
News Hardware
The tape format seems to be making a comeback as big brands like HP, Sony, Sun and IBM try to breathe some life back into the quasi-obsolete technology.HP in collaboration with Sony has decided to work on DAT that can work for...
Radiohead's New Album Could Herald Open Source Revolution
News Security
The latest music track, "House of cards" from Popular British Pop group Radiohead, has attracted Google's attention for its interesting use of technology throughout the promotional video, whose data set has been open...
RationalPlan Project Viewer 3.5.1
News Security
View your projects in detail.RationalPlan Project Viewer by Stand By Soft is a free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone (from project stakeholders to team workers) to view your projects in...
KeepAlive (Keep Applications Running) 11.0.5
News Security
Scan, monitor, and get notification when applications running on the server failKeep critical programs or executables running and be alerted when they fail. KeepAlive provides the ability to constantly monitor applications...
Dell 2709W 27" 1920x1200 HDMI Monitor @ £439.74 delivered
News Hardware
The UltraSharp 2709W, with native 1920 x 1200 resolution and DVI with HDCP, delivers superior, life-like clarity and vivid digital video audio detailUltraSharp performance is anything but flat. This 27-inch high-resolution...
Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII *32MB Cache- £89.95 Delivered
News Hardware
The Samsung Spinpoint F1 is the first three-disk hard drive delivering a whopping 1TB of capacity along with sophisticated recording technologyIt also features Samsung's industry-leading NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technologies to...
Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 and 260
News Hardware
No sooner had we finished our in-depth game benchmarking of this summer’s latest graphics cards and architectures, then the first pre-overclocked partner cards began to arrive.Claiming performance increases of up to 12...
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB video card
News Hardware
Over the last couple of weeks we've taken a look at a couple of Radeon HD 4850-based parts (with more on the way), both of which impressed us with their price/performance ratio in a way that we haven't really seen since the...
Serial Storage Architecture
News Hardware
Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) is a serial transport protocol used to attach disk drives to servers. It was invented by Ian Judd of IBM in 1990. IBM produced a number of successful products based upon this standard before it...
Trade agreement plans do not include iPod frisking
News Security
A feared trade agreement between the world's richest countries that opponents claimed would allow for the examining and impounding of iPods at airports is unlikely to result in such activities. When the G8 group of nations met...
Eight Steps to the (almost) Perfect backup plan
News Hardware
Back it up!You've taken the time to store it on your desktop or laptop computer everything that matters to you, from financial to sentimental. But you're just one system error, one spilled latte, one stolen backpack away from...
