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Articles Posted on 03 September 2008

US Facebook coupon fiasco will cost millions to sort

US Facebook coupon fiasco will cost millions to sort

News Security

Facebook is fun, mainly because of the tremendous reach the service has in terms of punters.So it makes me smile that a Californian company decided to release a series of high value money-off coupons onto the Facebook service...


Credit/Debit card bully boys squash RFID security expose

Credit/Debit card bully boys squash RFID security expose

News Security

My thanks to the BitTech newswire for publicising an interesting YouTube posting from this summer's 2600/HOPE hacker conference in which Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame revealed what a set of bully boys the credit and debit card...


Medion Enters Netbook Market, Releases E1210 laptop

Medion Enters Netbook Market, Releases E1210 laptop

News Software

Medion, which produces computers for the likes of Aldi, Lidl and Tesco, has announced the release (finally) of the E1210 which is yet another netbook based on a template specs list with not much differentiating factors when...


Ofcom Wants Policy Makers To Close Digital Divide With Broadband

Ofcom Wants Policy Makers To Close Digital Divide With Broadband

News Hardware

The era of Digital have and havenots should be made obsolete according to a Ofcom Comsumer Panel report which showed that the telecommunications governing body is focused on what to do to encourage digital inclusion.With 100mbps...


Sony Ericsson's  X1 Xperia Smartphone Gets SDK And Final UK Release Date

Sony Ericsson's X1 Xperia Smartphone Gets SDK And Final UK Release Date

News Mobile & Telco

Sony Ericsson's hotly anticipated X1 Smartphone, which will apparently be released at the beginning of October in UK, US and Germany, received good news as its software developer's kit (SDK) was pushed out of the door.The SDK,...


Microsoft Tech-Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals

Microsoft Tech-Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals

News Mobile & Telco

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT professionals.  For five days, you and 5,000 of your peers will learn how to architect, plan, deploy,...


The iPhone App Store – Apple’s true breakthrough

The iPhone App Store – Apple’s true breakthrough

News Mobile & Telco

You could have had a tough time in the 90’s if you were an independent software developer for Nokia or Ericsson smart phones.  Little was known about creating applications for GEOS and EPOC (latterly Symbian) and then...


Oracle Snaps Up Clearapp in Bid To Extend SAM Stranglehold

Oracle Snaps Up Clearapp in Bid To Extend SAM Stranglehold

News Software

Continuing its remarkable spell of acquisitions, Oracle declares to snap-up the software application management firm ClearApp, which has specialization in developing software that align with the Service-Oriented Architecture...


Commodore Joins Netbook Segment with Grandson of C64

Commodore Joins Netbook Segment with Grandson of C64

News Software

Commodore has also joined the league of netbook manufacturers with its all new addition to the segment in the guise of new UMMD 8010/F, here at IFA fair in Berlin.Except for its cool retro looks, the device has very little to...


The Inspiron 910 : Dell's new Netbook Arrives Tomorrow

The Inspiron 910 : Dell's new Netbook Arrives Tomorrow

News Software

The Inspiron 910, Dell's most anticipated laptop for some time, will be launched tomorrow according to a leaked info from Box.net, an online storage company which is expected to partner with the Austin-based company.  The...


Gary McKinnon Appeals To Home Secretary In Last Ditch Attempt Against US Extradition

Gary McKinnon Appeals To Home Secretary In Last Ditch Attempt Against US Extradition

News Security

Gary McKinnon’s lawyers have appealed the UK Home Secretary to make sure that he must not jailed in US, as the hacker may face a severe 70 years sentence with millions of pounds as penalty in US, for breaking into...


O2 Wallet Success Paves Way For RFID Equipped Mobile Phones

O2 Wallet Success Paves Way For RFID Equipped Mobile Phones

News Security

O2 has recently wrapped up the six months long trial of its ambitious Near Field Communication (NFC) in Europe and claimed that the technology is still has a long way to go for the real-time deployment.NFC entails using a single...


GNU's 25th Anniversary Sees Free Software Coming of Age

GNU's 25th Anniversary Sees Free Software Coming of Age

News Software

Speaking at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the GNU, Marc Fleury, who is accredited for creating the renowned professional open source software firm, JBoss, has backed the proposition of “free software”...


Top 10 Issues and things to Dislike in Google Chrome Browser

Top 10 Issues and things to Dislike in Google Chrome Browser

News Web

Now that the dust has settled and millions have downloaded Google Chrome Browser, the search giant must remain vigilant as issues are bound to surface (something they highlighted in their now legendary comic book). We've yet to...

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