Nipped down to PC World last weekend to get myself an Advent 4211 netbook for 280 beer tokens. Took it back last night, as the battery life was utterly rubbish and, quite frankly, apart from being able to access the Net on the...

It seems the media feeding frenzy about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has attracted the hacker community, as reports are coming in that the Web system for the "black hole generator" has been well and truly...

Dell is pushing ahead with its strategy to conquer the Ultra Cheap Netbook market by introducing the N270 and a new laptop buddy - the Z530 - on Tesco's Direct selling website. The Austin-based manufacturer has also started to...

Apple’s embarrassed release of 2.1, Steve Job’s 30 seconds of spiel about bug fixes not withstanding, seems to have cured many of the big irritations of the original device.  Even GPS seems to be working ok now. ...

It seems that HTC is planning to augment its Touch series of Windows Mobile smartphones, as the picture and specifications of its new model, Touch HD, leaked on the internet. The leaked specifications (thanks Modaco) mentions...

A long awaited review of the planned rollout of fibre optic based broadband network has recommended that the government should avoid investing into the project. A report published on BBC’s website stated that the...

Research in Motion, the company behind the ubiquitous RIM, has unveiled a slew of partnerships with some of the biggest names in the web-o-sphere to counteract the threat of Apple's iPhone platform. In what appears to be a...

UK broadband performance is too poor even to figure amongst the top world's 10 countries for broadband performance, according to a survey carried out by Oxford University's Said Business School in conjunction with the University...

The Integrated Circuit was invented in 1958 by Jack Kilby who was then working at Texas Instruments; before this breakthrough, the world of computing was ruled by tubes, valves and ancient components that looked like crushed...

It seems that the ageing HTC Touch series has finally got its successor in the guise of the new HTC Opal smartphone, after a leaked internet document displaying the picture of the device hit the blogosphere recently. Earlier,...

In a move that is expected to cause discomfort amongst a large section of its users, Facebook is all set to make it compulsory for all users to shift to its new design which it had launched a few weeks back. Initially Facebook...

If you take an organisation with over 500 employees working out of multiple offices on six continents, then the mapping interface is a good way to support problem solving among the distributed teams. Typically, remote teams could...

As a result of a succession of corporate acquisitions many companies end up with their customer billing and information filed in disparate system silos.  There is a need to reduce the cost and maintenance of these systems...

The Queen - who uses emails to communicate to Prince Harry and William, and apparently owns a Blackberry and an iPod - is planning to visit the UK headquarters of Google, somewhere during next month. Along with the Duke of...

Thousands of Londoners suffered an Internet blackout yesterday, due to a burglary at BT exchange in Mayfair on Wednesday night.Thieves broke into the Exchange on Farm Street, some time between 8 pm and 9 pm. They ransacked...

PandaLabs, Panda Security's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has detected YTFakeCreator, a program used by cyber-crooks to create fake YouTube pages to infect users with malware. The infection method is as...

So far I've resisted installing the beta test version of Internet Explorer 8.0, mainly because I've really been getting into Firefox this past month or so. It's the plug-ins that really make this browser fly. So I was amused to...

The man police believe was behind the OiNK music file-sharing service has been charged with conspiracy to defraud. Four other people have been charged with criminal copyright infringement over OiNK activity. Alan Ellis was...

The UK's competitive telecoms market can deliver the next generation access (NGA) in broadband, and maintain the country's position as a leading online economy, but the Government and Ofcom need to be vigilant and play an active...

With constant regulation changes such as MIFID, there is always the need for increased compliance complexity as environments expand and change. Compliance places huge demands on a company and with limited budgets and stretched...