I was surprised to hear on the TV news this week that the Home Office is claiming that the 3,000 smart passports stolen were secure and non-hackable.If that's the case, then how come experts said they were worth around 150 beer...

If it's on the Web, it must be true - right? Well, most of the time, but it seems that a Web site - www.dragandabic.com - that was used by several TV channels and newspapers as a resource on the healing life of the alter-ego...

We all know that the mainframe is seeing resurgence in large enterprises; the SOA drumbeat has been loud and steady for a number of years now.   IBM and a strong base of ISV's have been marketing various SOA and the...

Windows Seven, Microsoft's successor to Windows Vista, will still be carrying forward "long-term architectural investments" or legacy technology (like Vista), much to the chagrin of some who asked for a back to basis,...

Banks. I'm getting seriously fed up with their anti-fraud procedures. My better half runs a business and needed to pay a French company around 2,600 euros for a consignment of goods and, because the firm gets charged 65 euros...

We've seen many cheap laptops before: The original EEE PC laptop, the Elonex One and a few more but none came down so much on price. Carapelli Ltd is selling the Impulse NPX-9000 for a mere £65 (per 100). This means that...

Ever wondered why companies based in Taiwan are great when it comes to cost cutting but not so great when it comes to marketing? Well look no further than giant OEM/ODM firm Asus to exemplify this. The Taiwanese mammoth has...

Garmin pretty much covers all the bases when it comes to personal navigation systems, be they car sat navs or mobile phone software.   However in January they created quite a bit of excitement with the announcement of...

Settling the games-rating issues between the games industry and British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), UK government has proposed new set of guidelines to rate games. The issue was sparked by Dr Tanya Byron’s report...

Google's controversial Street View project was given the all clear by the Information Commissioner's Office, UK's body in charge of making sure that Brits privacy are being respected. Some critics, including UK Rights Group...

Google has acquired the CA-based internet video start up, Omnisio which launched earlier this year and lets its users to mash up different video clips and annotate them as per their wish. The service will add up more features...

The future of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) looks promising with Panasonic planning to launch its 40-inch OLED TV sets in 2011. OLED is an advanced system of lighting that creates high quality TV picture with much less...

Playing scrabble with your friends online was not the same after Hasbro removed Scrabulous on the charges of copyright infringement. Scrabulous has been a popular scrabble playing application on social networking website...

In an effort to extend its reach to start-up companies, Google is planning to establish its own venture capital (VC) arm very soon, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company has hired William Maris, a web entrepreneur and...

The Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) has announced a three-month consultation period on legislative options to address illicit P2P file-sharing (ed: what about direct links that are available on...

Google's Street View service has received the blessing of UK privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner, who has said that the safeguards Google has put in place for people's privacy are 'adequate'.The Street View service...

It captures and preserves all email traffic flowing into and out of the email server so it can be accessed quickly at a later date from a centrally managed location. When the need arises to search historical email for internal...

The Twin2X4096-6400C5 G is a 4096MByte matched pair of DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs. This part delivers outstanding performance in the latest generation of dual-channel DDR2-based motherboards. It has been tested extensively in multiple...

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, signifying a new phase in portable internet communication. You have ability to connect this pocket-sized device to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot or over your Bluetooth mobile phone. The Nokia N810...