I was amused to read on the Turkish wires that the world's number two hacker - Ercan Findikoglu (who he? -Ed) - was apprehended recently as he was preparing to empty another million bank accounts electronically.According to one...

The naivety of some people never ceases to amaze me, as witnessed by a report on Channel 4 news this week about a teacher who fell victim to love-con job on t'Internet.And lost 11 grand as a result.The 42-year-old fell for the...

Google is good at keeping secrets. Chrome has been in development since 2006 and although there as been rumours going on for sometimes about a Google Browser, it is frankly flabbergasting that they actually made one. By...

Both Google and Microsoft celebrated their millionth customers (business customer in the case of Google) on September 3rd in what looks to be another turf war between the two mammoths. Google has seen the number of active...

Japanese Consumer Electronics Giant, Sony, has announced that it is recalling 73,000 VAIO TZ-series laptop sold between July last year and August 2008 after receiving more than 200 reports of overheating. The incidents have...

Fashionably late, the LG KC910 smartphone is definitely. However, that ain't to say that it is bad. Although others like Sony Ericsson have already announced 8-Megapixel cameras, LG is the only one with a touchscreen display...

All eyes are on Google's first browser and it was not a surprise to find out that Chrome, like any popular application subjected to public scrutiny, does indeed contain a few flaws.Since Chrome is based on Webkit, the same...

Intel has come up with a couple of cost-effective dual/quad core processors, which includes a new entrant into the dual-core chip family and an addition to its already existing 45-nm processor family. The chip giant has launched...

So here's Dell's new Netbook contender, the Inspiron Mini 9 laptop which unsurprisingly, is being sold at £299 including VAT and delivery. The Mini has yet to be put forward on Dell's US website (at the time of writing),...

Serving as a prelude to next week’s big virtualization event from Microsoft at Redmond, the company has declared that it is geared up to make some crucial modifications in its offering in application virtualization, App-V...

Just couple of hours after the Google launched its new web browser Chrome, privacy advocates have started raising their voice against the unfriendly End User License Agreement (EULA) linked with it. The agreement apparently...

“With the advent of flash drives, we always wondered about getting our favourite movies and games on these compact and easy to carry devices?” This wish seems to get materialize with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment...

Apple has sent out invitations for its much awaited September event, “Let’s Rock”, scheduled to take place in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Centre of Arts. The event will end the guessing game over the...

Employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy for material stored on computers owned by their employers, a US court has ruled. The New Jersey court said that files on a work-owned computer can be accessed and...

The European Parliament has debated a series of sweeping telecoms reforms proposed by the European Commission. The Parliament has backed the reforms at committee stage and heard from MEPs who had investigated the proposals who...

Intellectual property advisors to both US presidential candidates have said that the US patent system is in need of reform. The advisors told a meeting at last week's Democratic Conference that patent quality must be improved. ...

One decision that has to be made when developing your business continuity plans is whether to have separate plans for different scenarios or to try and produce one plan that caters for all possible situations. The problem with...

Although AJAX became a common practice among content oriented websites, it is rarely incorporated into enterprise level applications. Analysts associate that with three major AJAX setbacks: The first is the complexity in creating...

With growing concerns about the environmental impact of data centres, our industry’s freedom to operate will depend increasingly on public support and understanding.   The research conducted by Tickbox earlier this...

The latest data breach figures reported by HMRC show that a total of 1,993 security breaches occurred between October 29, 2007 and the end of April 2008.  Despite the Government’s public statements of committing to...

Brave new world - Responding to the demands of the new economy means changing our approach to information management and communication.Organisations have to rethink virtually every aspect of their information management and...

The adoption of CRM has brought companies as many problems as it has benefits One of the big reasons why I see that CRM systems don't go far enough and often exacerbate any problems is that they are not geared to the individual...