Articles Posted on 22 July 2008
Three finally get some new handsets
News Mobile & Telco
With thanks to Ewan of SMS Text News who pottered along to the launch of Three’s new handset range for the second half of the year:Three have had a very poor range of handsets for consumer and business users for what seems...
Sony Ericsson Launches More Walkman Phones : W302 and W595
News Mobile & Telco
Sony has released two more Walkman Phones which aim at the entry level and mainstream users respectively. The W595 is a slide-camera phone and packs a 2.2-inch QVGA screen and 2GB worth of memory on a MS Micro card. ...
Sony Ericsson Unveils Most advanced Walkman phone Yet, The W902
News Mobile & Telco
The W902 is the most technologically advanced featuring "retro style" music navigation keys on the side that reminds us of those old type Walkman portable tape player. In addition, it features a soon-to-be-mainstream...
Just-released Asus 10-inch EEE PC1000 Laptop is poor value
News Network
The brand new Asus EEE PC 1000 series is now officially available in UK with two models on sale at £349 and £369 respectively although we had some difficulties finding stock in Blighty. But it will have a hard time...
BT Looks For Broadband Public Partnership in London
News Network
BT has been lobbying public sector organisations to build long lasting partnerships to bring fibre-based ultra fast broadband to those who will benefit the most from that. BCS reports that BT was particularly interested in...
Bluetooth Geotargetting Project Tracked Thousands of UK Laptops and Mobiles
News Network
The City of Bath might be popular with tourists but it is also being used as the test bed for new generation of "big brother" network of what some call, hidden scanners. Dailymail reported that hundreds of thousands of...
MoD Loses On Average 15 Laptops Per Month
News Mobile & Telco
The theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre last Thursday is the latest in a string of embarrassing lapses that saw 659 MoD laptops disappear over the past four years, nearly...
Satnav Systems Caused Millions To Drive Dangerously
News Open Source
Technology is always an easy target when it comes to finding a culprit for human mistakes; and the Satellite Navigation Systems or Satnavs do not escape from that implacable logic. A survey carried out by Insurance Provider...
Serv-U 7.2
News Security
Turn any PC with a network connection into a secure FTP site. Serv-U is a powerful, easy-to-use, award-winning File Server from RhinoSoft.com. Serv-U supports the FTP, HTTP, and SFTP (via SSH2) protocols to ensure maximum...
My Identity Protector 1.0
News Security
Protect yourself from identity theft and data loss.My ID Protector protects you from Identity Theft and data loss by locating sensitive personal data at rest on your computer before it can be stolen. My ID Protector...
Millions of Nintendo DS Lite Fake Chargers Could Kill Says Trading Standards Body
News Security
They have flooded Ebay and many other online Asian sites that have cropped up in the past years; they are the cheap knock-off copies of original accessories sold with popular gaming consoles like the Wii or the Nintendo DS. ...
Data blunders can breach human rights, rules ECHR
News Security
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen's personal data. One data protection expert said that the case creates a vital link between data...
Police guidance on data deletion is flawed, says Information Tribunal
News Security
The data protection guidance given to police forces on when to delete records of criminal convictions is inadequate, according to the body which hears appeals under the Data Protection Act The Information Tribunal, which...
Business Process Modeling Notation
News Network
The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standardized graphical notation for drawing business processes in a workflow. BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and is now being maintained...
Details of Oyster Card Hack To Be Released in October
News Security
Oyster Card Security Issues could join Signal Failures and Trade union disputes in the list of significant problems that Transport for London could be facing in the forthcoming months. A ruling in Netherlands now means that...
ASUS EN9600GT SILENT Graphics Card
News Storage
While the GTX 280 might be out, the price doesn’t exactly scream value for money for a lot of people. The high price tag is simply going to be out of reach for most. The 9600GT based off the G92 core continues to offer...
Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)
News Entertainment
It is used primarily to call attention to the fact that computers will unquestioningly process the most nonsensical of input data and produce nonsensical output, and is a pun on FIFO (First In, First Out). It was most popular in...
BenQ G2400W
News Entertainment
If you are visiting this website, or any website, you will probably agree that computers are a great tool for doing work, having fun, and learning. However, without a monitor, our home computers become nothing more than number...
Apple Financial Results Gives Wall Street Reasons To Celebrate
News Hardware
US Tech Titan Apple's third fiscal quarter has been one of its best ever so far, even by its own conservative forecasts and witnessed a rise in profits, which shattered the USD 1 billion barrier to reach USD 1.07 billion, up from...
BBC's iPlayer Success on Virgin Media Means That Other Channels Could Follow Suit
News Entertainment
Virgin Media users viewed more than 10.5 million BBC shows in June out of the 350 hours of shows that have been added to the cable provider backend in that month. In comparison, BBC's iPlayer generated 21 million views back in...
Microsoft Optical Desktop with Integrated Fingerprint Reader & Wireless Mouse, £29.99
News Security
Previously sold for 79.99 inc VAT, you can now grab one of these Microsoft Optical Desktops with integrated fingerprint reader and wireless optical mouse for less than half price!Log on with the touch of a finger; this is the...
Dynamode 85Mbps Homeplug Adapter - Quad Pack, £79.98 delivered
News Mobile & Telco
Home plug uses the copper power cables that run through your building as it would a network cable.Just plug one Homeplug near to your Computer/Router and connect with the patch cable provided. Then plug the other Homeplug...
Slingbox Classic – stop fighting over the TV remote!
News Mobile & Telco
The Slingbox Classic is not a new release, but is a great device. You can access a TV, set-top box, DVD or DVR over your home network or remotely by accessing it through your ADSL router.I took one home last week and had it set...
Tracking a withheld caller ID made easy
News Security
My thanks to the Engadget guys for posting a video showing how, with a little technical ingenuity, using the Asterisk open source telecoms software and an SIP connection into a minor telco - who kindly rents out such services -...
WikiScanner guru tackles anonymous Wikipedia edits
News Security
Although Wikipedia has grown in recent times to be a must-check reference on a variety of subjects, there's still a lot of anonymous and unvetted information on the site.Now it seems that Virgil Griffith, the developer of...





