Articles Posted on 29 July 2008
Freecom Debuts World's Tiniest 2.5-inch External Hard Drive, only just
News Hardware
The Freecom Mobile Drive XXS is said to be the world's smallest and lightest 2.5-inch external hard drive currently available weighing only 155g and measuring just 110mm x 80mm x 14mm, that's (very) roughly the size and weight of...
Dell Celebrates Death of Beige Boxes With Mini Studio Hybrid Desktop PCs
News Hardware
Austin-based computer maker Dell has released its new range of eco-friendly desktop PCs under the Studio Hybrid Range moniker, which complements its existing Studio range of laptops and targets consumers wooed by Apple. The...
Fujitsu's Tablet-Cum-Laptop, the Lifebook U2010, Appears In Vietnam
News Software
Kudos to Vietnamese forum Tinhe Te for bringing up photos and specs of the soon to be announced Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook U2010, which makes the Asus EEE and all the other Ultracheap Ultraportable laptops look morbidly obese. It...
Toshiba £180 HD Camileo H10 Camcorder Fills Gap In Market
News Hardware
Japanese CE Firm Toshiba has announced the release of its latest SD-based High Definition camcorder, the Camileo H10, a small but well formed 340g camcorder that is a welcomed departure from the format adopted by Sanyo's Xacti or...
TorrentSpy hacker spied on The Pirate Bay for the MPAA
News Security
More confirmation of some earlier rumours about a hacker who allegedly spied on The Pirate Bay on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America.According to weekend reports from DSL Reports, the hacker was paid an...
Skype has a back door?
News Security
Interesting yarn - as my first editor used to say - over on the FierceVOIP Web portal about some high-ranking peeps at the Ministry of the Interior in Austria claiming they can easily eavesdrop on Skype conversations.The...
More than 16 million Brits Surf The Web On the Move
News Hardware
Brits are jumping on the Internet Bandwagon faster than ever before, encouraged by the launch of cheap mobile internet packages and the appearance of true web-capable smartphones like the N810 or the iPhone. According to the...
UK Mobile Phone Users Send On Average 200m Texts Per Day
News Mobile & Telco
A report produced by the Mobile Data Association showed that Britons are still very much in love with texting as the number of text sent over the past year rose by 30 percent. More than 1.4 billion messages are sent weekly in...
Britons Lose Human Touch As Phone And Email Take Over, Says BT Survey
News Hardware
A recent survey from BT has revealed that as many as 25 percent of Britons prefer, talking on phone and emailing, over face-to-face interaction. The communication giant has published a report named “21st Century Life...
Online Crime Maps – A New Interactive Way to Make Streets Safer
News Security
Britain to take on crime through interactive mapping system that would highlight the concentration of crimes committed to the residents Local crime information regarding assaults, muggings, and burglaries in towns and villages...
AT&T Knocks on FCC’s Doors to Stop Sprint-Nextel Merger with Clearwire
News Mobile & Telco
AT&T has urged the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), communication regulation authority of US, to reject the proposed merger of Sprint-Nextel with Clearwire. The USD14.5 billion merger is supported by Google and Intel,...
Microsoft woos Open Source market by funding Apache
News Software
Microsoft has decided to fund the Apache software foundation that is responsible for open source projects like PHP, Linux and MySQL Microsoft has long been considered to be against Open Source software, but recently, it has...
Defective Nvidia GPUs Found In Dell Laptops
News Security
Issues with Nvidia next generation GPUs, G84 and G86 are becoming acute with every passing day, and after hitting HP, the problems have now extended to Dell laptops. As many as ten models of Dell laptops have been reported with...
Kobalt Comanche SLI
News Software
Normally when we’ve had gaming laptops in in the past, we at the bit-tech offices have gone through the same old dance. After a few minutes of beholding the laptop my frustrating need to argue takes over and I question what...
GigaByte GA-EP45-DS3L Motherboard
News Mobile & Telco
The Intel P45 chipset appears to be the hands-down successor to the venerable P35, the chipset that was the mainstay of motherboards designed for the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad for all of 2007. The P45 has proven to be an...
News Security
The term "e-mail" (as a noun or verb) applies to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, to network systems based on other protocols and to various mainframe, minicomputer, or intranet...
ZFactura 2008 vol 2
News Security
Create your own quotes and invoices and report your income and expenses. ZFactura is a invoicing software for self-employed workers and small companies. You will have access to the following files: items (products and...
VanDyke ClientPack for Windows and UNIX 6.0.3
News Security
Automate file transfer, shell, and public-key administration tasks on Windows, Linux, and UNIX. The VanDyke ClientPack command-line utilities securely automate routine file transfer, shell, and public-key administration tasks,...
3rd Annual European Data Protection Intensive
News Mobile & Telco
Data Protection Law & Policy and DataGuidance are organising The 3rd Annual European Data Protection Intensive on 13 - 15 May 2009, Barcelona. The intensive enables data protection practitioners to find authoritative...
Thought you knew Knowledge Management? Think again
News Software
Conventional Knowledge Management has always attempted to create the infrastructure for knowledge sharing in the enterprise.Knowledge Management assumed everybody was prepared to give up what they know but its limits are the...
Nokia iPhone 3G killer – no teeth?
News Mobile & Telco
Thanks to intomobile.com for the latest Nokia Tube images. I’m still wiping the tears of laughter away.Can this really be Nokia’s answer to the iPhone or just a quick cludge to get a touch user interface into...
Software Selection Process Can be a Minefield, Why Make it More Complicated
News Hardware
Whether selecting software, an advertising agency or building a new terminal, we would all like to feel that we have examined all the options, from every angle and eventually chosen the best solution to suit our needs at the most...
LG SATA DVDRW BD/ HD DVD-ROM Black Kit, £69.99 delivered from Amazon
News Hardware
Introducing the GGC-H20L, supporting the next generation of optical disc formats as well as existing and legacy ones. The Blu-ray disc format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up...
Dell Inspiron 530 Q6600 2GB PC Base Unit, £299.99 at Tesco
News Hardware
Performance desktop that is easily upgradable; although it is designed primarily for the home, the Inspiron 530 is actually well suited for a work environment. The 530 comes with 4 external slots, 2 external 5.25' bays, 1...
