Articles Posted on 08 September 2008
There's a lot of money laundering going on in Yorkshire
News Security
I'm indebted to the Yorkshire Post for reporting on the case of a local couple who have been ordered by the courts to pay back 60 grand that flowed into their bank accounts as part of a foreign money-laundering scam.The...
Hackers crack Middle-Eastern credit network
News Security
I was interested to read over the weekend that a group of professional hackers are thought to have cracked into a credit server network in the United Arab Emirates in order to make unauthorised credit and debit card purchases in...
Rumour Mill : Nokia 5800 Tube Smartphone To Be Launched in October
News Mobile & Telco
According to an anonymous source from the mobile phone blog JustAMP, Nokia is all set to roll out its first ever touch screen mobile handset 5800 ‘Tube’, primarily targeted at mid-ranged users, on 08th of October this...
Intel Piles Pressure On AMD, Releases Trio of Environment Friendly Xeon Processors
News Hardware
As a part of its initiative to reduce the environmental impacts of its products, Intel has launched a new range of Xeon processors which the company claims are free of halogen. These new processors incidentally use Hafnium based...
G.Ho.St Shows Google Chrome Potential For Hosted Operating System
News Business & Government
G.ho.st (the Global Hosted Operating SysTem pronounced "ghost"),which offers its Web-based G.ho.st Virtual Computer (VC) free of charge to every human being, today launched its brand new G.ho.st Mobile service at the...
EDS Loses Records of 5,000 Prison Employees, Keeps Mum for 13 months
News Consumer
Jack Straw is said to have been furious after learning that Ministry of Justice contractor, EDS, lost a 500GB external hard drive disk containing the personal data of 5,000 prison officers' across UK. IT supplier EDS apparently...
iPod Inspiration Was Brainchild of British Self-taught Inventor, acknowledges Apple
News Hardware
Apple has finally admitted that its iconic iPod was invented by a school dropout from UK. In a document filed by the company, in court, it has finally acknowledged Kane Kramer as the true inventor of the digital music player...
Mozilla Pushes Out Second Release Of Firefox 3.1 Alpha
News Software
Life at Mozilla has gone back to its usual ways after last week's release of Google's Firefox Rival, Chrome as the corporation released yet another alpha version of Firefox 3.1, dubbed Shiretoko. Although intended for developers...
SMS Text Grammar Signature To Help Police Track Down Criminals
News Security
UK police is all set to advance a step further in catching criminal activities in their vicinities, as scientists are going to display a new technique in the upcoming BA festival of Science in Liverpool that would help the...
Vodafone Forges Partnership With Social Networking Site Facebook Over Text Update Service
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone UK has announced that it will collaborate with UK users of popular social networking site Facebook to allow them to send text messages from their profile page to their friends. UK users will also get the possibility of...
Research shows that Managers Are Ill-equipped To Deal With Booming Homeworking Trend
News Consumer
Good managers need to help their home-based staff to feel that they are part of the team and that they are not regarded as skivers, according to BT Business. Although many companies now offer more flexible work patterns, poorly...
Who’s Minding the Restore
News Hardware
Installing the fastest backup solution in the world is pointless if it can’t restore your data fast enough to meet your service level agreements. Just because a disk-based solutions, such as a virtual tape library (VTL)...
Will The Android Platform Be Google's First Major Failure?
News Mobile & Telco
September 2008 has been quite eventful for Google: Android, their tenth anniversary, the asserted knowledge that their competitors are powerless and the incoming launch of their latest and possibly most important product ever...
Half of UK.biz Fail to Consider Key Criteria when Making Decisions about Data Centre Requirements
News Hardware
Research published by Data Centre Specialist Sentrum, shows what companies regard as most important when it comes to making decisions about data centre expansion or consolidation. The number of sites (36%), location...
PCI 2.0: High Time For A Root-and-Branch Review
News Security
As we brace ourselves for the release of PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) 1.2, it is as good a time as any to think about how PCI could be improved. I bet a lot of you have mixed feelings about PCI...
Advertisers try to block Google-Yahoo! ad deal
News Web
A major advertisers' group has told US antitrust authorities that Yahoo!'s use of Google to supply some advertising will harm the advertising market. The US Association of National Advertisers (ANA) fears that the deal will limit...
Next Generation Super Fast Internet To Cost £30 billion Says Government Advisory Group
News Hardware
Plans put forward to install next generation broadband in every household in United Kingdom could cost the economy nearly £30 billion according to a report published by the Broadband Stakeholder Group. The organisation,...
Google Reflects On 10-Year Anniversary, Lays Milestones For Next Decade
News Hardware
The entire web fraternity is commemorating the tenth anniversary of the internet firm that has rewritten the aesthetics of search mechanisms over the web, Google Inc. Founded by an amateur duo from Stanford University, Larry...
BBC Releases iPlayer for Nokia N96 Smartphones
News Mobile & Telco
iPlayer fans will now have access to their favourite iPlayer services on their Nokia mobile phones, as Nokia and BBC Corporation have entered into a partnership that would allow BBC’s popular iPlayer to be accessible on...
Sony USM4GJ/B Micro Vault Ultra Mini-4 GB- USB2.0 Flash Drive, £9.99 Delivered
News Hardware
So simple, Micro Vault media plugs directly into the computer's USB port and acts just like another drive. Transfer files between home and work, dorm room and classroom, exchange important data with colleagues or create a...
Sandisk M2 4GB Card, £12.99 Delivered
News Hardware
The Memory Stick Micro (M2) is designed to meet the growing storage needs of highly compact, multifunctional mobile phones. Exchange data with standard-size Memory Stick PRO compatible products by inserting the M2 into the...
