On the day that the Olympics has started - with a seriously entertaining opening ceremony - the hackers have moved in to take advantage.Newswire reports suggest that hackers have gained access to the official Web site of the...

A spot of red faces all round this week after the Techwatch portal was hacked by the Russkies.Brian Turner of the site posted an apology on the portal yesterday after the site was hacked on Wednesday.According to Turner,...

With most of the security blogoshere off at Black Hat I'm shocked I haven't seen posts on this one.  The airwaves are crackling with the latest in the TJX saga - eleven people from around the globe have been indicted in...

I confess I missed until now the latest report card for the gov't on computer security.  Brian Krebs at the Washington Post blogged about it a while back - his post includes links to the report.  While a C is nothing to...

Well, it's the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new century and it's time for the big opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.Over a cuppa at 0800 this morning I thought I'd check out the video streams...

Firefox has released the first iteration of an all-dancing, all encompassing messaging hub that combines twittering, RSS feeds, Facebook and IM into one nice little plugin called Snowl (Snow Owl). Version 0.1 supports two...

Research unveiled by anti-spam software company Clearmymail shows a significant increase in the number of spam blocked per customer, quadrupling to nearly 31,000 compared to just over 8100 in Q1 2008. A breakdown of these emails...

Vodafone has partnered with Realnetworks to deliver over the fly downloads to its mobile phone users in a bid to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) through a new service called "Vodafone Music" Prospective...

There has been a healthy number of keyboard-equipped smartphones lately and T-Mobile is the latest to join the band with Blackberry's own Bold model next month. The Bold comes with Wi-Fi, HSDPA and GPS (making it the first...

Research by Storage Expo has found that the top data storage challenge facing organisations is how to implement the right disaster recovery strategy. More than 80 percent of those surveyed placed DRS at the top of their...

IBM urged Linux to stop emulating windows and to make unique user interfaces. The Vice president of IBM's open source and standards, Bob Sutor made the remark during the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas.A day earlier IBM joined...

The Sony Ericsson P990i and P1i have a nice trick of automatically switching to the fastest and cheapest data bearer, usually WiFi, saving users a tremendous amount of money and improving performance.Unfortunately Nokia’s...

After the successful launch of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla is now working on its Concept Series project, which includes inviting web surfers to its forum to discuss the future of the internet. The forum is open to everyone, and it...

The much touted Domain Name Server (DNS) vulnerability seems to be more dreadful than being speculated so far. Addressing the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing for IOActive, unveiled...

Dell’s claims for “Cloud Computing” trademark, has been adjourned by the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Dell has filed the application for the “Cloud Computing” trademark in March 2007, and...

Microsoft has made its SQL Server 2008 available for public assessment, through free trial downloads from the company’s website. The free copy of the SQL Server 2008 is available for 180 days, and during the trial-span,...

Apple's marketing department could be having a few nightmares as Asus showcased the S101, a souped-up version of its hugely popular EEE PC which packs a 64GB Solid State Drive, just like Apple's famed Mac Book Air. At USD 899,...

Defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), IT is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and...

The latest results from the Databarracks annual Backup and Recovery survey indicate that overall, 91% of companies claim to be confident in their backup solution. Upon further investigation, 74% of those who do not use...

The days of cheap and cheerful laptops appear to have ended as the market is just about to be flooded with overpriced, underpowered pseudo-laptops that would make an iPhone look positively speedy. Case in point, laptops similar...

O2 joins Vodafone in announcing another iTunes-wannabee called My Play which it claims is "first operator-supported major label mobile music store" and powered by Momac's multimedia publishing platform GoMedia. The...

Application software is frequently introduced into companies piecemeal, with little thought about integration with existing systems. Customer Relationship Management systems should not suffer the same fate.Carry out any review of...

The Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone lets you make clear calls and get hours of talk time. The smart part about the design is not just that it's small enough to carry with you on your travels, but that the whole phone folds up to...

Get a whopping £70 off the suggested retail price of other online retailers. A cracking deal from a well known brand name manufacturer. Bread to Electronics seller Tesco is selling a 22-inch monitor from Korean...

Unfortunately money rules the world but it doesn’t necessarily need to rule a business. For many companies the thought of large capital purchases for IT is not an easy decision. It’s also very difficult to predict IT...