MSI is resolute to take on Asus in the battle of the Ultra portables with the soon to be announced Wind 2 or U120, to compete with the slew of Asus EEE PC laptops that the Taiwanese giant has released in the past few...

As from Next November, UK users of Three network will be able to make unlimited calls and send unlimited texts to other users on the same network for only £15. The plan - announced during a briefing by 3 CEO Kevin Russell...

Users of popular portable media players like the Archos Series or Smartphones like the Nokia N96 rejoice. The BBC has updated its iPlayer platform aand now allows content to be downloaded to the players via a USB port (or by...

Microsoft finally chose the codename for its Cloud OS Platform. Strata it is then. That's at least what the sessions page of Microsoft's Forthcoming Professional Developers Conference page pointed to earlier yesterday. The page,...

When it comes to environmental impact, data centres are of course already highly regulated facilities, attracting scrutiny for a number of different areas of operation, but what is the impact of these regulations? The physical...

Future of Web Apps kicks off with Kevin Rose Keynote, The Future of News The Future of Web Apps (FOWA) kicked off today at the ExCel centre in the City with Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com (introduced as "A man who needs no...

EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music, Universal Music and a number of other independent labels have now all signed with Online Etailer Play.com to offer their tracks without any Digital Rights Management "protection". Although not the...

It seems that an advert which claimed BT as the ‘Best Performing Broadband’ supplier has run foul with the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).  Acting on a complaint filed by Virgin Media, the ASA has ruled...

Mozilla has introduced an experimental browser add on for its Firefox web browser that essentially allows it to identify your location.  The new geo location service called Geode allows websites to request for your physical...

Microsoft Windows XP Professional is the next version of the Windows operating system, which is designed for businesses of all sizes, and for individuals who demand the most from their computing experience.  Windows XP...

To say that the iPod is on its last legs would be unfair to Apple's impressive achievement in turning a seemingly unambitious device - essentially a music box - into one of the great achievements in technology (and modern...

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on October 9 the development of a system that can securely integrate the reward cards of more than 100 retailers into a single mobile phone. Users can easily register, access or...

ElcomSoft has unveiled a new technology that accelerates the recovery of WPA and WPA2 encryption used in the Wi-Fi protocol by employing the new-generation NVIDIA video cards. The Russian Company's patent-pending GPU...

Adobe has come up with a security alert about its Flash software which warns its users about an exploit called clickjacking. Clickjacking essentially involves subverting a web page in a manner such that when a user clicks on a...

Symantec the leading security software developer is all set to purchase UK based MessageLabs in a deal worth $695 million. The UK based MessageLabs which develops solutions for protecting users from viruses communicated via...

A court in Knoxville USA has indicated David Kernell, a twenty year old student at the University of Tennessee for hacking into Alaska Governor and US Vice President nominee Sara Palin’s email account.  According to...

Google has initiated beta testing for its AdSense advertising platform for games and is initially inviting established game publishers to test the service. Analysts had long anticipated such a move from Google since its...

Hewlett Packard has indicated that it plans to slash more than 3300 jobs in UK in the next two years following its acquisition of EDS. The job cuts are a part of company’s integration plan that is likely to see a loss...

In support of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week, CryptoCard is offering firms a free two-factor authentication service for up to 200 users until the end of the year.The idea is that firms hand in their "passwords" and...

I nearly dropped my coffee cup yesterday lunchtime when the release came through that Symantec is buying into anti-spam specialist MessageLabs for a cool $695 million in readies.The big question, I asked myself, is why would the...

Big Box manufacturer Asus has acknowledged that its EEE Box Desktop Mini PCs contain a virus called Recycled.exe which is hidden in the box's 80GB hard disk drive. While Asus says that it only affects computers shipped in...

Apple bangs on about third party applications ruining the iPhone experience if left running in the background.  Absolute piffle as BJ might say. Two super apps one recently updated, the other new to the App Store illustrate...

AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services, DSL Internet access and wireless service in the United States with 71.4 million wireless customers and more than 150 million total...

AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc.) is an American global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner and was headquartered in Loudoun County, Virginia until late April 2008 when it was moved to new offices...

KillProcess is an application assassin of the extreme kind. It can terminate almost any process on a Windows machine, including any service and process running in the system.Even protected Microsoft system processes can be...

Wider the screen, wilder the fun says Hanton, the manufacturer of that great looking, entry level TFT monitor. The H-341WB won't win any prizes for being a slim, attractive monitor but it will get heads rolling with its low...

Today, with all our fancy user interfaces, toolbars, menus and contexts, using a shortcut key or combination of keys, is always faster than using the mouse to navigate to a specific area in the user interface and then use one,...

VirtuaWin is an Open Source, virtual desktop manager for Windows which can organize applications over several "virtual" desktops. A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also...