Finnish manufacturer Nokia is on the verge of releasing the 5800 XpressMusic otherwise known as the Tube, a smartphone that many predict will mark the return of the mobile phone manufacturer at the top of its game. A Czech...

If the HTC G1 and the iPhone were both part of a beauty contest, it is likely that the iPhone would still come on top despite having numerous flaws. For what it is, the HTC (or T-Mobile or Google, whatever suits you) G1 comes...

In a move that is expected to go down quite well with its regular passengers, the low cost airline Ryanair has decided to allow passengers to use mobile phones during a flight. The airline plans to install concise mobile phone...

Imagine style. Imagine power. Imagine an aura of elegance and sophistication. That’s what defines SAMSUNG’s new “Aura” range - probably Samsung's most stylish notebooks to date. Built to the...

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The Faster Payments Service (FPS) is one of several initiatives developed following a review of the UK banking industry in 1998 – 2000. The review concluded that payment systems should be opened up to increased competition...

Playnow Plus is just another repackaged Omnifone music service after all... We were expecting something extra from the embattled mobile phone manufacturer but apart from the fact that SonyEricsson has a more complete roster,...

It seems that Visa and MasterCard's 3DSecure system - aka Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode - is taking off as more and more UK cardholders sign up to the service.Both card issuers claim that 25 million payment...

A report published by Broadband firm Epitero confirmed the existence of a 'digital divide' amongst European cities. The data, derived from testing broadband services from leading ISPs in Amsterdam, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid,...

HTC/T-Mobile/Google's G1 smartphone is finally out and reviews are rapidly cropping around but already, there are a number of flaws, some small, others worryingly massive, in Google's strategy that have been made even more...

Despite being (allegedly) booted off its backbone provider earlier this month amidst allegations of being involved in the darker side of the Internet, San Francisco's Intercage is back online.The small ISP was reportedly canned...

Seagate has announced a comprehensive rebranding of its EVault, MetaLINCS, and Seagate Recovery Services companies, which were operating as a division of Seagate under the name Seagate Services. Collectively these companies...

A year of heavy marketing of mobile broadband has pushed the mobile phone networks ahead of WiFi hotspots as the most popular way of accessing the internet on the move.   Point Topic’s recent survey of mobile...

Making any change to an enterprise backup environment should be done with caution. You are, afterall, working to protect data, not to put it at risk. Even the relatively low-risk task of introducing data deduplication should be...

Time Warner's Limping AOL internet business and besieged Yahoo! are about to enter talks about a possible mega merger of two of the most celebrated internet brands. FT is reporting that "According to one person familiar...

The Office of Communications (Ofcom) has come out with a new consultation paper which explores the thinking behind next generation access (NGA) in an endeavor to increase investment in the development of broadband networks in UK....

The much awaited touchscreen variant of BlackBerry which has been christened as the BlackBerry Storm is expected to hit UK shores as early as next month. The new handset is likely to be available only with Vodaphone in UK and...

IBM, in its new IT standards policy, has put forward the need of accountability and openness in standards organisations and has also hinted that it may reconsider its participation in many of them if these bodies fail to shape...

Hmonitor checks the temperature of any component on your computer with a sensor It also has alarms that can be set when the temperature goes too high, and even has built in software cooling. It was developed as a...

Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google's AdSense, the advertising regulator has said. Many online publishers use AdSense or...

It is also known as Y/C, it is an analog video signal that carries the video data as two separate signals, luma (luminance) and chroma (colour), unlike composite video which carries picture information as a single lower-quality...

A robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical system which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The word robot can...

It is a standard business process whose purpose is to invite suppliers into a bidding process to bid on specific products or services. An RFQ typically involves more than the price per item. Information like payment terms,...

It is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. In computing, an early tradition in the hacker community (especially at MIT) was to choose acronyms and abbreviations that referred humorously...

In computing, booting (booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when it is switched...

A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation about addressing the insider threat to database security at the ISACA Network Security conference in Las Vegas (thanks ISACA for having me!). My session covered database security issues in...

Mind mapping can help teachers organise their students’ ideas and improve team collaboration and project working.Mind mapping seems like an idea that has been around forever. But even today, many teachers are only...