I was amused to read this morning that Microsoft has officially released details of the Beta 2 edition of Internet Explorer 8.0, following "leaks" appearing all over t'Internet this week.And you know what? I think...

You want to hear something funny? A storm has broken out between a sex store owner and the Los Angeles council over the council's refusal to allow an Internet cafe-style licence to a sex store.Even though the Deja Vu Love...

All the recent Netbooks have been the product of classic laptop production chains : Asus, MSI, Dell, Acer and so on but LG's entrance in the Netbook market could herald a brand new threat to the laptop segment.Launched at the...

Gary McKinnon, who has been credited with the biggest military computer hack of all time, has seen his bid to fight extradition to the US crushed after the European Court of Human rights rejected his appeal. Karen Todner, his...

Microsoft is readying a mouse that uses a blue LED rather than red lasers because the former can be used on a greater number of surfaces; this would mark the fourth great revolution in the way mice have evolved over the past few...

Advertising has turned out to be the major source of generating revenues for the Telecom Carriers across the globe, a research from the analyst firm Gartner revealed. The industry is all set to generate revenues worth USD12...

Mozilla’s endeavours of snatching some significant market share are quite apparent in its recent product releases, and in the same line, the company has rolled out its first working prototype of its Ubiquity application,...

In its response to Apple’s lawsuit for manufacturing Mac replicas, Miami based Psystar, has strike back with a counter lawsuit over the Apple, accusing that the company’s licensing policies are not in line with the US...

I’ve blogged before about the problem of Google Adwords pushing Antivirus XP Antivirus 2008. The situation is still ongoing. However, it’s taken a turn for the worse, as these XP Antivirus pages are pushing exploits...

The soaring popularity of Firefox browser, has caused Microsoft to bring upon necessary modifications in its very own internet browsing application, Internet Explorer, as the software behemoth has released the new...

A Primary version of Google’s much touted mobile phone platform, Android SDK, has appeared on the web, with a couple of subtractions from its original menu. The new version of Android SDK would be devoid of the Google Talk...

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that spammers are now using Shockwave Flash (SWF) files to avoid detection (similar in nature to the trick of using Google redirects, etc. in the past). This continues. Here’s a current...

It could have been the biggest security cyberheist of all times with fears that up to eight million records being compromised as news emerged on Sunday that Best Western Hotel group central customer database had been breached. ...

Follow-up from my blog post yesterday on SWF files being used in spam: One researcher has shared with me a little over 800 SWF files on ImageShack, all pushing malware.  I did a quick spot check and many of these are still...

The problem information security professionals are most worried about is preventing data loss by their organisations, a survey has found. It found that 69% of IT security workers put the loss of data at the top of their worry...

Is installing new, more efficient equipment good for the environment? Well, actually no!  Installing new plant and IT is good for the environment when it is needed – but throwing out perfectly good equipment which will...

From its announcement in February, Nokia's N96 has been a drawn out pre-launch.  The N96 was set to take over the top spot from the N95 8GB and compete in the media stakes with Apples iPhone 3G.  Yet apple's launch has...

Meeting madness - how can we make them more effective and cut down on the unnecessary company gatherings? Who in business today hasn’t complained about meetings? There are too many, they’re too long, unproductive,...

The growth in globalisation has impacted on the type of relationships vendors have with their Channel. There has been a marked shift in vendor/reseller relationships and this is due in part to a number of key factors such as the...