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Articles Posted on 28 July 2008

Record your TV programs anywhere, free!

Record your TV programs anywhere, free!

News Consumer

For UK & Ireland residents who use Sky's Satellite TV service and have a Sky+/Sky HD box, you can record your favourite shows to record where ever you are in the world using just your mobile. Sky offer two free of charge...


Nokia's iPhone Killer, the 5800 Tube, Appears On Chinese Website

Nokia's iPhone Killer, the 5800 Tube, Appears On Chinese Website

News Consumer

Those who went to see the latest Batman movie, the Dark Night, might have seen it in the hands of Morgan Freeman and more details have now been revealed courtesy of Chinese website tech.qq.com. The Nokia 5800 Xpress media, also...


Facebook Pulls Stabbing Application After Uproar From Campaigners

Facebook Pulls Stabbing Application After Uproar From Campaigners

News Web

Popular Social Networking website Facebook has swiftly pulled out an application that allowed Facebook members to shank - a street slang for stabbing - other members of the website. The feature was part of the Superpoke...


Google Reaches Trillionth Spidered URLs Landmark, But Fail To Disclose Pages Spidered

Google Reaches Trillionth Spidered URLs Landmark, But Fail To Disclose Pages Spidered

News Security

Google's announcement that it has successfully processed its one trillionth link might be linked to the launch of Cuil, a promising search engine built by ex-Googlers. What does that mean? Google has actually build a database of...


Google Says Nah To Digg Deal; Pulls out at Last minute

Google Says Nah To Digg Deal; Pulls out at Last minute

News Mobile & Telco

Google will not put Digg technology in Google News after it reportedly ended all negotiations to buy the social news website for USD 200 million (around GBP 100 million). According to Michael Arrington from Techcrunch, there are...


Nokia losing their marbles – cuts links with BlackBerry

Nokia losing their marbles – cuts links with BlackBerry

News Mobile & Telco

What is Nokia thinking off?  Many of their largest and important customers use BlackBerry’s BES as part of their mobile security strategy.   Of course not all employees want a BlackBerry handset so have, until...


A mobile phone exchange in a suitcase

A mobile phone exchange in a suitcase

News Security

Fascinating to read over on the Textually Web portal about a emergency rescue initiative project that has produced a mobile phone system that weighs just 10 kilos and is transportable.The Wisecom system routes call to the PSTN...


Decision time for Gary McKinnon this week

Decision time for Gary McKinnon this week

News Security

I was concerned to read on the Net yesterday, that this week will see a House of Lords decision on the Gary McKinnon hacking extradition case by the House of Lords.According to some gloomy weekend news reports, Gazza is being set...


Business Continuity – We Have a Plan!

Business Continuity – We Have a Plan!

News Software

Many organisations get hung up on the goal of producing “the plan” as the be-all and end-all of their business continuity project. But the plan itself won’t save the business in the event of a disaster. What...


Pic: Former Google Employees Launch Super Search Engine Cuil

Pic: Former Google Employees Launch Super Search Engine Cuil

News Web

A bunch of Ex-Googlers have launched what is being presented as the Yet Another Google Killer and has already indexed more than 121 billion web pages, one eighth of the estimated one trillion URLs Google has identified until now....


Yahoo! Bid Failure Causes Yet Another Casualty As Microsoft Online Chief Exits After 16 Years

Yahoo! Bid Failure Causes Yet Another Casualty As Microsoft Online Chief Exits After 16 Years

News Business & Government

Kevin Johnson, the seasoned Microsoft chief leaves the company, after its USD47.5 billion offer to buy Yahoo! is put off the table once again. The startling news of Mr. Johnson's departure was announced by Microsoft last week...


Prison Authorities To Ban Computer Games For Most Prisoners

Prison Authorities To Ban Computer Games For Most Prisoners

News Consumer

As per a recent directive from UK government, most of the UK’s prisoners would be banned from playing computer games; It also bans all prisoners from playing computer games rated 18. However, prisoners with good...


Comment : How you might be missing the Virtualisation boat

Comment : How you might be missing the Virtualisation boat

News Hardware

Everyone’s talking about virtualisation. It’s everywhere. It’s often seen as a quick win, silver bullet solution to fix IT problems, but there’s still a lot of talk about botched implementations, low...


Apple mulling alliance with Orange UK over 3G iPhone

Apple mulling alliance with Orange UK over 3G iPhone

News Mobile & Telco

France Telecom Owned Orange could soon control iPhone distribution on both sides of the "Manche" as early as October 2008 if the latest rumours are to be believed. A blog post on Omio by Ernest Doki saying that "word from a very,...


Phishing Attacks Are Soaring in UK, Says APACS Report

Phishing Attacks Are Soaring in UK, Says APACS Report

News Security

According to a recent report from UK’s payment authority, APACS, as many as 20,682 cases of phishing frauds have been reported in the first half of the year, as compared to 7,224 cases reported for the same period of 2007. ...


PowerColor HD 4870

PowerColor HD 4870

News Mobile & Telco

A few weeks ago the world was greeted to a sight many people only read about. The sight I am referring to is the dead coming back to life. No I'm not talking about the next Robert Rodriguez joint. I am talking about the rebirth...


Scientists Demand Refurbishment Of British Computing Sanctuary at Bletchley Park

Scientists Demand Refurbishment Of British Computing Sanctuary at Bletchley Park

News Software

A group of around 100 computer scientists have sent a letter to The Times, demanding an immediate action from the authorities to save the Bletchley Park. The park played a crucial role in the battle against Nazi Germany during...


UK’s SAP User Group Goes Awry To Recent Rise In Support Price

UK’s SAP User Group Goes Awry To Recent Rise In Support Price

News Consumer

SAP user group in UK showed its reluctance to the recently announced price hike in software support services to its customers, in a rather gloomy economic environment. The group has spurred its German counterpart to revisit the...


Organisations See Employee Misuse As The Biggest Threat To Their Security Network

Organisations See Employee Misuse As The Biggest Threat To Their Security Network

News Security

41% of organisations see employee misuse of the corporate network as their biggest security threat, according to a recent survey conducted by Storage and Network Specialists, LSI.The survey of 250 IT Directors and board-level...


Asus CrossHair II Formula

Asus CrossHair II Formula

News Software

Eighteen months ago we reviewed Asus' original CrossHair based on Nvidia's nForce 590 SLI chipset for AM2 Athlon 64 CPUs. The layout of that board was, well, interesting, but the features set a new record in terms of...


Atlantis Navigator 5.65

Atlantis Navigator 5.65

News Security

Manage and improve your business workflow. The Atlantis Navigator is the integrated browser for business processes from SageTea Group. The Atlantis Navigator has a simple yet powerful query tool, supported by an array of useful...


Advanced Time Reports Premier 8.6.152

Advanced Time Reports Premier 8.6.152

News Security

Manage your time and projects. Advanced Time Reports is an intuitive time tracking & project management solution that will help you increase your billable hours by better managing all your projects, clients and working...


500Gb Hitachi SATA-2 P7K500 Hard Drive, 16MB - £35.19

500Gb Hitachi SATA-2 P7K500 Hard Drive, 16MB - £35.19

News Hardware

The Deskstar P7K500 hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and performance making it an ideal solution for consumer and enterprise power-friendly PCs. Leveraging sixth-generation power management...


Linksys Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router WRT160N, £57.99 delivered

Linksys Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router WRT160N, £57.99 delivered

News Hardware

The Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router is really three devices in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network without wires. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex...

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