The BBC has quietly slashed its hosting cost for the iPlayer service by moving from Akamai to Level 3.Unfortunately for many ISPs whose punters download/stream iPlayer material, however, whereas Akamai offers full reciprocal data...

Driving back through Manchester over the Bank Holiday, I gassed up the car at a local Tesco Express on the main drag out of the city - at 109.9p a litre I was impressed.I wasn't impressed, though, when I saw a chap drive up,...

Information Age's Enterprise Security 2008 event is an opportunity to hear some of the latest thinking on the topic and to share insights with fellow practitioners. We only have limited spaces at this event and these are filling...

An email sent by Manchester's University of Salford Financial Director, Ray Corner, cost the university a stonking £110,000 after the recipient, Dr Tom McMaster, won a court judgement against his former employee. Dr...

Nearly two thirds of UK's 25 million households have access to the Internet according to latest figures published by Office for National Statistics (ONS) today. That's a four percent increase over 2007 with an extra 1.2 million...

After waiting over a year and a half for a new professional Palm handset (Centro does not make the grade) the Palm Treo Pro has most of the features that businesses need.Tri band HSDPA, Quad band GSM, GPS and WiFi Palm has now...

Tens of Thousands of Fans of the unofficial Scrabble application, Scrabulous, have been left in the dark after social networking site Facebook, agreed to remove the controversial application from all its local-language websites...

In what appears to be an ever shrinking musical chair party, Graphics Chip manufacturer Nvidia has signalled its commitment to VIA's Nano platform, in effect putting its weight behind the only other x86 alternative on the market....

Research conducted by online recruitment specialist www.theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly half said their hours had increased in the last two years. 42.5 percent...

In its attempt of extending the reach of its video streaming technology, Microsoft has obtained some considerable stake in online HD video service provider, Move Networks, for an undisclosed amount. The move comes out as a...

Store and forget attitude costs millions as demand for access to historical data grows and business risk increases. According to a new report by analysts Forrester Research, businesses are exposing themselves to increasing...

Asus has continued its spell of launching Eee PC clones, by launching four new flavours to its Eee PC product range; however, the new additions are the modified versions of already existing 900 and 901 series notebooks. The...

Apple’s iPhone is all set to create history with its incredible sales across the globe, and its authorized dealers have generated huge profits by selling the device in their respective regions, and T-Mobile is one of them. ...

After the record launch of the advanced version of the web browser, Firefox 3.0, Mozilla is focusing hard to turn its browser into the default application for most of the web users, and in the same quest the company aims to...

Apple’s new iPod Nano has finally hit the blogosphere, as Digg’s founder Kevin Rose claims to have the details of the company’s September gift to its music lovers. The device appears to be fit into the prior...

Frequent data losses seems to be a daily cup of tea for UK government, as just few months after losing crucial details about the beneficiaries of Britain’s child benefit programme, the UK authorities have again lost an...

Nokia released a pair of its N-series smartphones which pack even more features than the previous generation; but they are no iPhone rivals - at least for now. The N85 is a mid-range mobile that's a notch down compared to the...

An Ebay Customer was stunned to find details of more than one million customers of some of the most prestigious financial institutions on a Snap! Network Attached Storage (NAS) device he purchased on the auction site for a mere...

With the current phenomenal success for Team GB in the Beijing Olympics and the upcoming 2012 games to be held in the UK, interest in Olympic events has never been greater. For any athlete whether amateur or aspiring Olympian,...

While AJAX / Silverlight front-ends' trend is towards empowering the client (browser) with more capabilities, there might be a market for a server based computing approach called the 'Web like desktop'. This approach was formed...

With over a 100 million handsets vulnerable to a number of security flaws, it seems that Nokia have a big PR problem on their hands. Adam Gowdiak reported his findings, well if you have $20k to hand, of extensive research in the...

Pictorials have been suggested as a common means for better comprehension and retention of universal information The way individuals learn, and subsequently remember, bears a strong relationship to the way our senses operate, and...

The perception is held by more than one community, vendors themselves understand that they have to be clear as to whether they are a partner sales driven organisation, a direct selling organisation or a 'hybrid' selling...