Articles Posted on 18 September 2008
T-Mobile increases 3G Network Capacity, Anticipates HTC Android Dream Smartphone Success
News Mobile & Telco
German Mobile Phone Operator T-Mobile will increase its 3G network capacity by 100 percent at least, in the US to accommodate the expected surge in consumption when the T-Mobile G1 handset is launched next month. 27 major cities...
Will Asus Morph Google's Android Smartphone Into The Search Giant's First Laptop?
News Mobile & Telco
Asus has received an invitation to join the Open Hand Alliance (OHA) which is the cluster of mobile phone companies which have openly backed Google's Android platform and which will sooner or later release devices built around...
Comment : Peer to Peer Networks Pose Growing Threat to Businesses
News Hardware
The growing popularity of peer to peer networks - such as Napster - where people share and exchange music pose a growing threat to confidential data integrity within companies.The possible threat of peer to peer networks is...
Hackers Infiltrate Yahoo Mail Box of US Vice President Candidate, Sarah Palin
News Security
Alaska's Lipstick bulldog, as she likes to call herself, Sarah Palin has had a nasty surprise to find that someone apparently hacked into her personal email account on Yahoo and published some emails and photos online.It is...
GBP999 Apple MacBook Air 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
News Hardware
Get a whopping £200 discount when you buy an Apple certified refurbished MacBook air laptop, the thinnest laptop you'll ever want. MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable and ultra unlike anything else. But you don’t...
GBP969 iMac 2.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo All in One Computer
News Hardware
This iMac 2.8GHz is one of those all in one computers that other PC manufacturers try to copy but fail short when it comes to replicating its cool aluminium finish and its impressive 24-inch widescreen display. Although this is...
Toshiba Joins Netbook Revolution Late With NB100 with Sony left alone
News Software
Japanese Consumer Electronics giant Toshiba has announced the release of its own Netbook device which called the NB100 and which unsurprisingly pack the same components as all its cloned siblings. Inside the NB100, you will find...
HTC Android-powered Dream To Pricematch Apple iPhone, Could Cost Only £100 in UK
News Mobile & Telco
Google's buzzometer is gradually heating up as the launch date of the first Android-based smartphone inches nearer; the date has been confirmed as the 23rd of September and now, the price is said to have been fixed at USD 199...
Sky Removes Download Limits On Its Top Broadband Max Offer
News Hardware
In a move aimed at providing “unlimited broadband” Sky has decided to drop the download limits for its 16Mbps broadband service which starts at a mere GBP10. The decision to drop “fair use policy” for Sky...
More Data Shambles: Another UK Agency Loses FOUR Laptops With Sensitive Data
News Security
Continuing their characteristic sluggishness with IT data handling and management, another UK government agency, Insolvency Service has confirmed the theft of four laptop computers from its Manchester office on 27 August 2008. ...
Apple To Sell Cheaper 4GB 4G iPod Nano Players?
News Mobile & Telco
A stylish 4GB version of Apple’s new 4th generation (4G) iPod Nano has been spotted on sale on several retail websites across many countries in Europe including Germany and Netherlands. Though there are still no signs of...
PCI 2.0: Secure Cardholder *Data*
News Security
As we brace ourselves for the release of PCI 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 just like I do. Don't get me wrong -- there is a lot to like...
From TactileCRM To Microsoft Dymamics : A Short roundup of great CRM solutions for smaller businesses
News Software
An old work colleague from more than 10 years ago pinged me a random email last week asking which CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software I use for my sales teams. She actually described it as follows: "What system...
IBM Confirms Finjan's Report on Crimeware-as-a-Service
News Security
A blog posting from IBM Internet Security Systems, in which the rapid ascendance of hacking-as-a-service is discussed, confirms an earlier report from Finjan on Crimeware-as-a-Service. “It is indicative of the...
Google Allows Anti-Abortion Groups To Buy Ads For the First Time
News Security
Google has modified its advertising policy to allow Christian and other religious groups to place adverts against abortion on its web pages. The move came after a legal challenge by Christian Institute on the refusal of the...
Law On Websites Promoting Suicide To Be Amended By Government
News Consumer
In a move aimed at curtailing the incidents of suicide deaths that were attributed to the proliferation of suicide websites on the internet, the government has planned to amend the suicide act and make it applicable on the...
Offshoring
News Security
It describes the relocation of business processes from one country to another. This includes any business process such as production, manufacturing, or services. Offshoring can be seen in the context of either production...
Octal
News Software
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Numerals can be made from binary numerals by grouping consecutive digits into groups of three (starting from the right). For...
Object code
News Security
In computer science, object code, or an object file, is the representation of code that a compiler or assembler generates by processing a source code file. Object files contain compact code, often called "binaries". A...
Why Managers need to grasp the challenges of proving compliance through better process control
News Cloud
Proving compliance to regulatory requirements just gets a whole lot easier with eProcess based systems. The flow defined within an eProcess engine determines exactly where a piece of work will go and the audit log, which is...
How To Choose The Perfect Project Collaboration Tools
News Security
There are many hosted and software based project collaboration tools on the market: How does one pick the right solution for their business? There are dozens of project collaboration tools for teams to choose from and...
Porn surfers move on up to social networking says Aussie author
News Security
I was more than a little intrigued to read last night that Bill Tancer - a well-known Internet guru in Australia (it says here) - says that down-under Netters are eschewing Internet porn in favour of social networking sites.Which...
German court bans iPhone Net telephony
News Security
I nearly snorted into my coffee yesterday morning when I read that the German courts have banned the use of Internet telephony on iPhones on the country's T-Mobile phone network.Specifically, the German legal bigwigs have banned...
