Articles Posted on 10 October 2008
Database right prevents more than just cut 'n' paste copying, rules ECJ
News Hardware
A judgment by Europe’s highest court has strengthened the rights of database creators to protect their work from being used by third parties without permission. The database right protects against more than just copying...
RIM Hits Snag As Orange Stops Selling Bold Amidst Software Concerns
News Mobile & Telco
Orange has apparently stopped selling the Blackberry Bold because of quality issues affecting the smartphone's software with the possibility that the same issue affects other networks as well. According to Chris from...
Apple Wins Four Top Gongs At T3 Technology Awards
News Mobile & Telco
Apple's iPod Touch won T3's Award for top gadget of the year beating the likes of the Asus EEE PC netbook, the Tomtom Go 920 Satnav and the Sony HDR-TG3 HD Camcorder. Back in September, the other Gadget Magazine, Stuff, chose...
Rumour Mill : Microsoft To Buy RIM (And More Perhaps)
News Mobile & Telco
Microsoft could be looking to buy Blackberry Manufacturer, Research in Motion (RIM), in what could potentially be the mother of all technology acquisitions, just days after the company released its first touchscreen...
LG's Launches Their 8-megapixel KC780 Camera Phone
News Mobile & Telco
Shortly after releasing the LG Renoir (AKA KC910), here comes LG's other 8-megapixel camera phone, the KC780, which as its numeration indicates, is slightly less advanced compared to its big brother. It is roughly around 14mm...
MoD Hard Disk With Details Of 100,000 Army Personnel Goes Missing
News Security
An external hard disk drive containing the details of 100,000 Ministry of Defence Staff has disappeared from a secure location from Hook, Hampshire in the latest and potentially most devastating data lost to date. The BBC...
£359.99 HP 6735s Laptop, Dual Core, 4GB Memory, 250GB, Webcam and Windows Vista
News Hardware
**** Ebuyer no longer sells the HP 6735s at this price. As of 30th December 2008, expect to pay £389.98 including delivery for the laptop with an enhanced 2.1GHz CPU. It seems that the cashback scheme by HP is no...
After Games and Youtube, Google Introduces Ads for Google Maps
News Software
Google has initiated testing of ads on Google Maps with text based ads that display links to relevant and localised search results. The move to introduce ads into Google Maps comes in close succession of Google...
Apple To Launch Sub £500 Mini Laptop Next Tuesday?
News Hardware
In these times of Turmoil, Apple is going ahead with the launch of several new laptops including one of which should be sold for less than USD 899 (that's less than £500) which would indicate that Apple could be suffering...
Microsoft Sends Advanced Security "Patch Tuesday" Alert
News Security
Microsoft is all set to release a bunch of security patches next week and has already issued four security bulletins informing the users of the same. The patches are expected to fix bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) along...
Tata Buys Citigroup Outsourcing Services For USD 505 million
News Cloud
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has acquired Citigroup’s back office operations in India in a deal worth USD 505 million in cash. Citigroup which has been reeling from over sixty billion dollar loses due to credit related...
Online advertisers being scammed by advertising fraud
News Security
Now here's a story that strikes at the heart of the modern Internet: a report just released suggests that online advertising firms lack the tekkie expertise to detect when they're being defrauded. According to Professor Benjamin...
US couple fined $236 million for spamming
News Security
A US couple who sent vast quantities of spam via a small ISP for around four months in 2003 have been fined a whacking $236 million. According to the IDG newswire, Perez and Suzanne Bartok used a bulk emailing package to send...
Asus To Introduce Touchscreen EEE PC in 2009 Plus Cheaper EEE Laptops
News Mobile & Telco
Reports indicate that Asus is all set to launch a touch enabled Eee PC sometime next year. According to DigiTimes, rumours regarding the upcoming launch of touchscreen based offering from Asus was confirmed by none other than...
£129.99 1.5TB Maxtor External Desktop Hard Drive
News Hardware
Your work, your photos, your songs, your digital video, your memories. Store them all safely and securely in Maxtor's External Desktop Hard Drive. Ideal for home and office, it's easy to use - just connect the power...
£16.99 PNY Attache Premium 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
News Hardware
The PNY Attache Premium USB2.0 provides the best mobile storage for people on the go! This Gorgeous USB drive is of course a high quality storage device offering same performance as all the other PNY USB range. Available up to...
Amazon
News Software
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet, and was an iconic "stock in which to invest" of the late...
Managing Active Directory RID Master Failures EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
News Security
Are you responsible for your organisations Microsoft Active Directory? If so, then you need to be able to respond rapidly and effectively to any failures. The Active Directory is inherently very reliable and the multi-master...
Access (Microsoft)
News Software
Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software...
