With many organisations looking at VoIP as a part replacement for fixed and some mobile calls, it would appear natural for Apple to have supported SIP out of the box.  That they didn’t opened up a market for...

A group of fraudsters have managed to outsmart Chip and Pin card protection simply by buying legitimate companies - in this case petrol stations - and cloning their clients credit and debit cards. Three Srilankan men - who now...

Out-law is running a series of free, one-hour OUT-LAW Seminars in October and November. The seminars are on contract management and information security - further details are below. As well as subject matter that we hope will be...

It ain't cheap but it surely is entry-level price for a Blu-ray laptop; the Samsung R610 will be offered for sale at £799 from next month and is a rather intriguing laptop. For a start, it comes with a 16-inch screen rather...

Analysts at Juniper Research have speculated that Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile sets are expected to reach to 700 million users by 2013. As per a recent report from Juniper Networks titled, “Mobile Payment...

UK punters should brace themselves for the release of Hollywood-backed Digital Copy, a scheme that cinema studios hope will convince people not to copy movie DVDs to their hard drives and share them with peer to peer partners...

It was only a matter of time before the Post Office launched its mobile phone network; after all, all major supermarkets and even Ikea have their mobile phone networks thanks to a clever scheme which allows them to resell these...

Windows Vista could have well been the Microsoft product that pushed mainstream computer manufacturers into the arms of the Open Source movement with the Linux OS being tipped as the replacement for the beleaguered Operating...

Many of my last blog posts have talked generically about virtualisation and how to make it really work for your organisation and how to achieve the best ROI. For some companies this is new ground as far as virtualisation goes,...

Citing the raging contribution of internet in spreading rumours and misleading information, ‘World Wide Web’ inventor Tim Berners-Lee has announced plans for creating a new platform, “World Wide Web...

Taiwanese Computer giant Asus is preparing a cute little smartphone called the Zest (or Glaxy 7 or Crystal) which should be competing both with Samsung's Omnia and the Apple iPhone. The smartphone, which comes with a front...

In a bid to expand its influence in Asian market, Google has acquired a blogging software firm from South Korea, Tatter and Company (TNC), for some undisclosed amount. The news was confirmed by TNC’s co-chief executive...

The second advert of the USD300 million ad campaign launched by Microsoft, featuring Bill Gates and Seinfeld, appears to be much more relevant than the previous one. Unlike the fist ad of the campaign that left people guessing...

Jonathan Zdiarski, a data forensics expert, has found that the iPhone records almost everything its users perform on its screen. Zdiarski stated that the handset takes the screenshot of the most recent action of its users,...

In a rather unusual step, the former leader of the Conservative Party William Hague MP has given a public statement of support to Yorkshire’s NYnet project which he says is transforming the county and will hugely benefit...

Wow.  Just… wow EstDomains, Inc: Global Struggle Against Malware Distribution EstDomains, Inc, a US-based domain name Registrar, officially declares opposition to malware mongers in order to protect Internet users...

Demand for fingerprint protected computers has soared because lazy Britons suffer from password fatigue when trying to log on. Sales of computers and laptops equipped with the latest technology have risen an astonishing 91 per...

In computing, multitasking is a method by which multiple tasks, also known as processes, share common processing resources such as a CPU. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is said to be running at any...

It is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor and/or the ability to allocate tasks between them....

A multi-core CPU (or chip-level multiprocessor, CMP) combines two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit (IC), called a die, or more dies packaged together. A dual-core processor...

These are terms used in computer technology, referring to a number of data transfers (or operations). They are most commonly used for measuring the number of transfers per second (GT/s or MT/s). 1 GT/s means 109 or one billion...

Really interesting to see a report on Reuters over the weekend noting that the world's airlines (at least, the ones still flying, that is) are happy with punters to surf the Net and use email on their laptops whilst in the air,...

We all know that it's now possible to by-pass the security agencies by using encrypted VOIP technology instead of conventional circuit-switched PSTN telephony calls, but an article in the Daily Mail over the weekend confirmed the...