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Articles Posted on 14 August 2008

Fraudsters have hijacked Chip and PIN

Fraudsters have hijacked Chip and PIN

News Security

It seems that crims have finally broken the algorithm system for Chip and PIN, as, when police raided an alleged card factory in Birmingham the other day, they found a ton of kit needed to make forged cards on a massive...


SlyDial service launches in the US

SlyDial service launches in the US

News Security

Now here's an interesting service in the US that involves a company looking up a mobile users' voicemail number automatically and piping calls straight to voicemail, and not to the mobile, even if it's switched on.The unusual...


Android & Xperia coming to market sooner than later

Android & Xperia coming to market sooner than later

News Mobile & Telco

After the endless stories of delays, it appears (courtesy of TmoNews) that HTC may ship an Android handset to T-Mobile  USA in September.   This goes hand in hand with a poor quality video on YouTube showing a working...


Triple Play Bundles Help Britons Save on Broadband, Telephony and TV

Triple Play Bundles Help Britons Save on Broadband, Telephony and TV

News Hardware

Another interesting nugget came out of the Ofcom Report published today, over the widespread adoption of Triple play bundles which bring together broadband, fixed telephony and television services on one bill. These bundles...


Mobile Operators Must Get Mobile Broadband Strategy Right, Says Mobile Outfit

Mobile Operators Must Get Mobile Broadband Strategy Right, Says Mobile Outfit

News Mobile & Telco

Mobile Security Expert AdaptiveMobile urged mobile operators to carefully consider their international mobile broadband strategies. This follows the European Union's threat to impose legal measures to make operators cut the...


Mobile Broadband Usage Reaches New Heights

Mobile Broadband Usage Reaches New Heights

News Hardware

A new report by the body in charge of regulating the telecoms market, Ofcom, shows that Mobile broadband has been a phenomenal success with sales of the ubiquitous dongle reaching more than 133,000 in June this year. The...


Microblogging Service Twitter Cuts UK SMS In Bid To Save Money

Microblogging Service Twitter Cuts UK SMS In Bid To Save Money

News Mobile & Telco

Twitter has announced that UK users of the service will be no longer able to receive any updates by SMS; they were previously allowed up to a maximum of 1000 texts per month. In a blog post on Twitter's blog, Biz Stone, the...


Intel Starts Remote Connectivity Drive, partners with Jajah on VoIP

Intel Starts Remote Connectivity Drive, partners with Jajah on VoIP

News Hardware

Intel has unveiled a brand new technology called "Remote Wake" that allows your computer to wake up from a deep sleep mode to perform a particular task. The technology will be available on some of Intel's newer...


First UK Microsoft Virtualisation User Group Crops up Ahead of New Product Launches

First UK Microsoft Virtualisation User Group Crops up Ahead of New Product Launches

News Hardware

Microsoft has announced a number of Virtualisation-related products for the 8th of September and has concurrently given its accent to its first Virtualisation User group, hinting at more to come. At a launch event called...


HSBC Could Replace Blackberry With 200,000 iPhones Globally

HSBC Could Replace Blackberry With 200,000 iPhones Globally

News Consumer

Global Financial Institution HSBC could spark a massive turnaround for Apple's iPhone in the corporate market as one of its senior CIOs has officially confirmed that the group is reviewing the revered mobile phone. Speaking to...


Fujitsu Siemens Debuts Ultimate Power Saving LCD Monitor

Fujitsu Siemens Debuts Ultimate Power Saving LCD Monitor

News Software

Fujitsu Siemens has introduced a brand new LCD monitor range that promises to cut down power consumption to Zero in power save mode and gets rid of the power button. The Scenicview Premium Line Eco family integrate some...



Social Networking Websites Register Massive Increase In Member Numbers

Social Networking Websites Register Massive Increase In Member Numbers

News Mobile & Telco

The popularity of social networking websites is soaring impressively during past couple of years. Various Social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, etc, are significantly adding huge number of subscribers...


Google Extend Search Engine Lead in US Market, Reaches 70 percent

Google Extend Search Engine Lead in US Market, Reaches 70 percent

News Security

Google has breached the 70 percent mark in terms of queries entered by the US web searchers. According to a four-week study from Hitwise that ended on 26 July, the search engine behemoth grabbed a whopping 70.77 percent US...


Criminals Crack Chip-and-Pin Technology Wide Open

Criminals Crack Chip-and-Pin Technology Wide Open

News Security

UK police have arrested a Birmingham based gang, which reportedly developed a technique to steal card details, and make counterfeit cards from it. The issue has sparked debate over the pliability of Chip-and-PIN technology in...


Government publishes new, wider Data Retention Regulations

Government publishes new, wider Data Retention Regulations

News Security

The Government has published a draft law that mandates the retention of data by internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies. The proposed Regulations will replace an earlier law that applied to non-internet data...


SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB, £13.71 delivered

SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB, £13.71 delivered

News Hardware

Cruzer Micro allows you to easily carry and transfer key documents, pictures, music and video clips from one computer to another. Cruzer Micro now ships with U3 smart technology. Co-invented by SanDisk, U3 technology gives you...


Samsung 40" LE40A336 HD Ready Freeview Widescreen LCD TV, £469.99 delivered

Samsung 40" LE40A336 HD Ready Freeview Widescreen LCD TV, £469.99 delivered

News Hardware

Introducing the Samsung Series 3 LCD TV. The Series 3 range of LCD TV's offers users a simple introduction to the world of HD TV. Stunning picture quality coupled with superb connectablity means you will be able to enjoy your...


AMD's Latest Graphics Card Could Spell Huge Trouble For Nvidia

AMD's Latest Graphics Card Could Spell Huge Trouble For Nvidia

News Hardware

The latest Radeon HD Graphics cards from AMD could make rival Nvidia's life more miserable as they take the red team just snatched the title of the world's fastest video card. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 packs a pair of AMD DirectX...


Gain Control of the Information You Need to Manage by Doing Something Different

Gain Control of the Information You Need to Manage by Doing Something Different

News Cloud

If you’re like the typical knowledge worker, on a daily basis you are drowning in new e-mails, instant messages, office and mobile phone calls, and text messages, not to mention the vast amount of project content that you...

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