Creating a fake profile on a social networking website could possibly land you in trouble; A businessman whose life turned into a nightmare after an old school friend created a virtual Facebook alter-ego of him won his case and...

While some are still evaluating the threat caused by SQL injection technique, security firm Sophos released a security threat report that underlines the fact that this technique is currently the favourite method used by hackers...

The last few weeks have seen a resurgence in the number of attacks based on the Asprox malware and coming from East European countries, something that was highlighted by GSS back in May 2008. Asprox uses an SQL-inhection attack...

New York State’s Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has sent a letter to Comcast, containing rules and guidelines for monitoring child pornography, which must be incorporated within five days, failure to which may translate...

The Sony Ericsson K660i is the second Skype compatible phone ITProportal.com is reviewing this year and unlike the Skypephone, this one is available on other non 3 (three or 3G) networks, more about that in a bit.The model we...

Internet Piracy costs the UK music industry around £200 million per year but plans are already being drawn to get internet users to pay a Music license, similar to the way you pay for your annual TV license. According to...

Tens of thousands of UK households could soon receive letters from their ISPs asking them to stop sharing music illegally in an anti-piracy deal brought forward by the government under the pressure of the music industry. Six of...

In mathematics, computing, linguistics and related disciplines, an algorithm is a sequence of instructions, often used for calculation and data processing. It is formally a type of effective method in which a list of...

Italian ISP Tiscali has taken legal action against BT for sending defamatory letter to Tiscali’s customers in the UK.     Tiscali has started off a legal war against BT after the company sent letters to...

The much debated DNS flaw that had IT giants working overtime to create its patch, has been accidentally revealed online, creating an issue for those whose servers are yet to utilise the patch. Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky...

Robert Soloway, popularly known as “Spam King”, is sentenced to 47 months of prison, for distributing millions of junk mails to users, after an extraordinarily long sentence hearing of almost thirty six hours in the...

Social networking website MySpace has joined the OpenID alliance, which would allow its users to seamlessly access other websites without changing the usernames and passwords. Instead of different usernames and passwords,...

Superdrug's claim that it sold 960 everyday health and beauty products more cheaply than rival chemist Boots was misleading, the advertising watchdog has ruled. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that not all 960...

Compare, back up, synchronize, and replicate data. Easy-to-Use File backup and synchronization tool, it can automatically Compare, back up, synchronize, and replicate any type of files/folders from local hard disk to external...

The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837, but Babbage continued to...

Given the constant focus on virtualisation as a ‘green’ technology, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s manna from heaven for IT execs desperate to reduce power consumption and carbon emissions.While the...

There have a been a bunch of posts and gobs of marketing blurring the lines of distinction between data security products like database activity monitoring solutions and network security products like web application...

EW-7728In complies with 802.11n draft 2.0, the next generation wireless standard. With the advanced MIMO technology, it can support the data transmission rate 6 times more (up to 300Mbps) and the coverage 3 times more than IEEE...

Smartphones have laptop power in a pocket-size design. But the pocket-size design has a natural limitation in the size of the keyboard and screen. Celio Corp extends the Smartphone with the most valuable features of a laptop....

Many of us may not have the funds to fork out in order to get that new P45 motherboard that was released last week. And if that is the case then the chances of picking up an X48 chipset motherboard would be farther out the...

As we have seen lately, AMD has been releasing "Platforms" geared towards different types of users in the market. We have already seen the "Spider Platform" - a system comprised of one of AMD's quad-core...

E-Roamer is a multi-user software solution, consisting of three main components, which allows each user to centralize all of their e-mail (from any number of POP3 or IMAP accounts) onto a single server. E-Roamer's principal...