Articles Posted on 16 October 2008
The Business of Deduplication
News Hardware
We all recognize that deduplication is a potentially game-changing technology. By cutting the amount of capacity your backups require, it can make VTL backup as cost-effective as tape. However, be sure that you implement a...
BAD Says Shiny Metal Mobile Phones Cause Facial Rashes
News Consumer
A leading group of dermatologists has issued a statement saying that the use of mobile phones that come with a metal case can cause rashes to appear across the user's face and the ears. The British Association of Dermatologists...
UK Government Postpones Controversial Mother Of All Databases
News Security
The Home Secretary may be carving in to growing demands to reconsider rolling out a scheme that would pave the way for a gigantic database and said that the law will be debated in 2009, rather than for the end of this...
Google Apes iPhone, Adds Kill Switch To G1 Android Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
Google has inserted a controversial feature that allows applications on Android Marketplace to be removed from a smartphone on demand, something that could come back and bite Google and its partners in the future. The...
Google Feels Ad Revenue Pinch, Says Yes To Gambling Adverts
News Business & Government
Google has announced that it will be accepting gambling-related adverts as from the 17th of October, which means that from tomorrow, gambling adverts may appear in their Google search results, Youtube or any Google powered...
VMWorld 2008 Round Up
News Hardware
As usual there’s been a lot going on in the world of virtualisation and VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas a few weeks ago gave us all a lot to think about. Every company present was making announcements and vying for coveted...
Nvidia's Geforce 9x00 Chipset Brings Discrete GPU Performance to Integrated Graphics
News Mobile & Telco
Just a day after Apple announced Nvidia’s GeForce 9300/9400 chipset for its new range of Macbooks, Nvidia unleashed the desktop version of the same. The new GeForce 9300 and 9400 mGPUs would offer support for faster...
iPhone App Maker Sues Carling Maker Over iPint Virtual Beer Software
News Mobile & Telco
iPhone app developer Hottrix has a filed a lawsuit, worth GBP7.1 million, against Molson Coors Brewing and Beattie McGuinness Bungay for copying its “iBeer” application for creating their own...
Apricot Launches PicoBook Pro Netbook; Sinclair and Amstrad to Follow?
News Hardware
It was only a matter of time before old names get revived for the sake of marketing. Apricot, once the darling of UK tech industry, has released a 8.9-inch netbook called Picobook Pro and available at £279. The device comes...
BBC Pushes Forward With Open IPTV Environment
News Software
Venerable Beeb has announced that it will be looking for partners to create an open industry IPTV platform to allow content providers to roll out internet TV services more easily. The BBC has gathered a lot of experience from its...
T-Mobile To Release The G1 Smartphone On October 30th, Starts from £31.50 per month
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile UK says that the HTC Android G1 smartphone will be on sale in the UK from the 30th of October with more than 25,000 potential UK buyers having pre-registered to purchase the handset. As expected, the G1 will be available...
ISF warns against the rise in profit-driven attacks
News Security
Staying with the organised crime theme today, I was interested to see the ISF (the Information Security Forum) noting that profit-driven attacks are increasingly replacing random individual hacker attacks.The Forum reckons that...
F-Secure calls for creation of Internet-pol
News Security
Interesting to see that Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with F-Secure - and a veteran of the IT security industry - is calling for the creation of an Internet equivalent of Interpol to tackle the growing problem of...
BT Halves Price of Wi-Fi Tariff In Bid To Grab Mobile Broadband Marketshare
News Hardware
In an attempt to add subscribers to its Openzone services, UK’s major landline operator BT has slashed its Wi-Fi charges by up to 50 percent as per its new price structure. In addition, BT has also added almost 2,500...
Toshiba Releases New Tecra and Protege Business Notebooks
News Software
In its first Mobility Conference in Zurich, Toshiba has unveiled an all new revamped series of business notebooks, including Tecra R10, Portege R600 and A600, but the real show stealer of the conference was its NB100...
Google Pays Tribute To Queen Elizabeth With Elaborate Home Page Logo
News Security
The Queen's Profile will appear as the second G in Google's Logo today as her Majesty prepares to visit Google's Headquarters in London, shortly after a recent trip to Google's Youtube HQ last month. In addition to the doodle,...
£20.99 MyMemory 16GB 133X PRO Compact Flash Card
News Hardware
Professional grade memory cards for the most demanding imaging applications that's how you can qualify this 16GB CF Type 1 card. MyMemorys' PRO Compact Flash cards are designed specifically to help advanced amateur or...
£84.99 Iomega 33730 1TB External Hard Drive USB2.0
News Hardware
The Iomega Desktop Hard Drive USB 2.0 is home storage made simple. With this very reliable and most economical of desktop hard drives with a capacity of 1000GB (single hard drive) to spare for all your photo, video and...
Virtual workspaces could be a better way to manage partner relationships
News Hardware
From little acorns grow massively complex IT partner relationships. This is not always the case, but when organisations expand their offerings and look to engage with their partners on many different levels including new...
