Articles Posted on 06 August 2008
NZ Plod gets jiggy after teenager hacks email and Bebo accounts
News Security
Reports are coming in from New Zealand that a 19-year-old Hastings girl could be looking at seven years in the chokey for hacking a schoolgirl's Bebo and Hotmail email accounts.According to the NZ press, Rachel Boyte is a typical...
One in the eye for Apple as surfers urged to ditch Safari
News Security
It looks like Apple's failure to keep the security of its Safari Web browser up to date is coming home to roost, as Consumer Reports, the US equivalent of Which? magazine here in Britland, is advising punters to can the...
Motorola's Last Chance Mobile Phone is Blackberry Lookalike
News Mobile & Telco
Fate can sometimes be cruel. Motorola was a long while ago the darling of the mobile segment, a place it has now lost to Apple, one of its once-closest allies, and its iPhone.Boy Genius Report has a picture of a Motorola Slider...
Accountants Love Facebook, Becoming More Tech Savvy Says Survey
News Security
A survey commissioned by Accounting Software Specialist Sage (UK) Limited revealed a truly connected Accounting workforce which has fully embraced digital working practices. With just over two years to go until the Carter...
Google Squeezes UK Search Market Even More With 75 percent Share
News Security
A report by Comscore underlined Google's dominance of the UK Search market as the Internet giant surpasses the 75 percent barrier in June.Although the increase was minute at half a percent, Google now accounts for nearly three...
Google Unveils Free Legal Music Service In China
News Security
Chinese don't like to pay for content that they can seamlessly copy and that's a ruthless factoid that Google has sneakily adopted to launch its brand new music search engine, exclusively in China.The new service will allow users...
7Digital Comes Up With Free Music For UK ISPs In Anti-Piracy Scheme
News Mobile & Telco
iTunes competitor 7Digital has a rather cunning proposal for UK ISPs which could not only allow millions to listen to unlimited music without incurring litigation costs, but would also see it become a major online music outfit...
Virgin Media Eyes Mobile Business Model For Its Broadband Services
News Mobile & Telco
Virgin Media is planning to offer its broadband services with subsidised hardware devices, through third party dealers.The broadband operator may join the league of successful dealers, including the likes of Carphone Warehouse,...
Sony Ericsson Launches Bluetooth Gamepad For Its Handsets
News Hardware
Consolidating its position in the mobile gaming world, Sony has come up with yet another technological addition in form of a Bluetooth enabled remote for mobile gaming.Zeemote JS1- which is to be bundled with Sony’s W760i...
Samsung Unveils Chelsea Edition Digital Cameras For New Football Season
News Mobile & Telco
Samsung has kicked off its official sponsorship of Chelsea Football Club by launching- NV4 titanium and L100 compact eight megapixel Limited Edition cameras.The cameras have Chelsea’s crest embossed on its front, and come...
Met Office Inks GBP33 Million Deal For IBM Petaflop Supercomputer
News Hardware
UK’s weather forecasting department, Met Office, has penned a GBP33 million contract with IBM, for a new supercomputer that would help the weather forecaster in providing the comprehensive details of the weather conditions...
Sony Ericsson Unveils Bond's 007 Inspired Cyber-Shot
News Mobile & Telco
Sony Ericsson has introduced a sleek titanium silver phone similar to the one Daniel Craig will sport in his latest outing as James Bond in "Quantum of Solace" (Ed : I wonder how much they paid for that product...
Don't cite 'hits' as a measure of website traffic, warns advertising watchdog
News Security
An advert that claimed a website received over five million 'hits' every month has been banned because the metric is likely to mislead readers. The UK's advertising watchdog said that 'hits' is an unreliable measure of website...
Myspace And WiFi Firm The Cloud Sign Wireless Access Partnership
News Hardware
WiFi Specialist The Cloud will allow Myspace users to access their favourite Social networking website for free when they connect to any of the thousands of hotspots owned by the company.They will be able to access their...
Fujitsu Siemens SCALEOVIEW D22W-1, £129.24
News Software
An attractive price doesn't mean that you have to compromise on style or performance. The SCALEOVIEW D22W-1 widescreen display offers best performance for the home office and multimedia, such as photo editing and gaming. With...
HannsG HG281D 28-inch LCD Monitor, £238.18
News Consumer
From US review site Extremetech, The HG281D features a native resolution of 1920x1200, and at 28" in size, it seems like quite a steal for under £240 at Lambda-tek Sure, it's basic - there's only a VGA and HDMI...
Five Symbian Applications Worth Trying
News Mobile & Telco
1. Handy Taskman Handy Taskman is essentially an application switcher and launcher for S60 that will make you wonder why Nokia didn’t make all S60 work like this. Taskman gives you complete information...
Can the Channel really deliver on the virtual desktop promise?
News Hardware
Virtualization has been the hottest topic dominating technology headlines in the last year, whether it is about new developments around virtual desktops, or server vendors integrating a hypervisor into systems to handle virtual...
