For a measly $22.9 million, Greenhill, a private investment firm, has bought Iridium. You can read a followup to this article here including comments from Iridium.Probably the only commercial mobile carrier that can reach every...

The Home Office has unveiled its first ID card model, weeks before the ID card scheme is due to be rolled out nationwide and made compulsory for foreign immigrants coming to Britain. The plans for a national ID card have been...

Myspace is partnering with Amazon to offer millions of songs for free online supported by advertising as part of a complete relift of its music service. US-based Users of the Social networking website will be able to stream free...

When the first internet protocol structure was put in place in 1977 by Vince Cerf and his team, little did they know that 31 years later, the world would be on the verge of running out of free IP addresses. According to Cerf,...

Of the top Phone Manufacturers not part of the Open Handset Alliance, Sony Ericsson is the most likely to launch an Android smartphone and it looks more likely than ever that they are going to do so sometimes in the...

It seems that the next edition of Windows Mobile is unlikely to be released before the second half of next year. According to CNET, Windows Mobile 7 which was initially scheduled to be released in the first half of next year is...

Mozilla has released a new security update for Firefox which apparently patches 11 security flaws with many of them being labelled as critical. The newly released update, Firefox 3.0.2 includes patches for six critical bugs...

An increase in fraudulent activity is likely to follow the recent events in the banking sector according to UK Company, First Cyber Security. Customers with internet banking accounts are urged to take care if asked to respond to...

Now starting at £169, iPod touch packs more features into a sleeker design.What's newMore ways to play iPod touch games and applications are nothing short of amazing. And the App Store is where you’ll find them...

This has to be UK's cheapest 8GB microSDHC card - which carried a lifetime warranty - and will be the perfect complement to your mobile phone With Kingston's micro SDHC Class 4 card, your mobile content is no longer tied to your...

The Boynq Notone USB VoIP Phone is the first PC speaker with a combined VoIP handset receiver and built-in microphone for hands-free calling. When a user prefers a private call, they can use the intergrated receiver. When picked...

After hearing the evidences against David Kernell, who allegedly hacked Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Mail account, the federal jury in Chattanooga ended its hearing without indicting the accused. The...

The controversial Google-Yahoo ad revenue sharing deal will surely get a nod from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but only after the authority places some checks on it; an analyst predicted. Christa Quarles, MD Thomas Weisel...

In a move aimed at giving a major boost to cloud computing, Oracle has announced its plans of collaborating with Intel for developing a cloud computing software stack that would essentially allow companies to develop public IT...

Google has come up with an innovative contest that offers a sum of 10 million dollars for five new ideas that can change the world and benefit people. The contest which is being held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Google...

This is particularly nasty spam pushing a fake codec trojan If you go to that link, you get to a very convincing site pushing a fake codec.  That CNNWorld was created yesterday, hosted in Iran.

A new batch of Security Scam Hijacker sites, Thanks to Patrick Jordan for the information. Zlob Trojan Distributing site: 77.91.231.183 Wmpware. com 77.91.231.201 Newwmpupdate. com Scam Internet Security Page:...

SSI is when the operating system maintains its state as a single copy of data in memory. Each system call on a processor can obtain data by load/store to that single copy. For example, a system that has an individual boot disk...

It is a derogatory computer jargon term that refers to software noted more for the quantity of what is included than for the quality or usefulness. The metaphor implies that the creators chose the content material...

It is a method for systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to...

It is a computer dedicated to providing one or more services over a computer network, typically through a request-response routine. These services are furnished by specialized server applications, which are computer programs...

In telecommunications and software engineering, scalability is a desirable property of a system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or to be readily...

As students prepare to go back to university they will be faced with all kinds of challenges from meeting course work dead lines, to budgeting and managing their social life. So how can they achieve universal harmony? First year...

I was highly amused to read how Fortify Software - the application vulnerability guys in the US - are viewing IBM's late entry into the static IT security analysis marketplace "as a limited step in the right...

Interesting to see Bill Detwiler over at TechRepublic making a video on how to easily investigate reports of inappropriate usage of the Web within companies.In his video, Bill shows how a freeware package called IEHistoryView can...