The presentation of the new Office 14 at the recent Microsoft Professional Developer Conference was overshadowed by the announcement of Azure and Windows 7. But Microsoft's most resilient cash cow is coming back with a vengeance...

I was intrigued to read in the Scottish Daily Record today about the curious case of a pensioner couple - Ken Mackinnon and his wife Gillian - who were sent a solicitor's letter demanding 525 quid for allegedly file-sharing an...

Taming Crowdsourcing to produce the perfect laptops is a great way to generate out-of-the-box ideas; but it remains a mystery why other laptop makers (like Asus) don't adopt desirable features from Apple's Macbooks Intel and...

Correction: There is a worm component. (Yes, the trojan itself isn't a worm. But that overlooks the behavior of a dll, a dll dropped by Gimmiv, which is a worm. Now, that doesn't mean we're at a SQL Slammer...

Mobile Phone Company Vodafone has been lambasted by the Advertisinh Standards Authority for adverts that claimed that the company offered "The fastest, most reliable mobile broadband in the galaxy. Only £15 a...

Broadband service provider Orange is not going to use controversial tracking technology from Phorm (at least not for now) because it values the privacy of its customers according to Paul-François Fournier, the senior...

According to a new report, incidents of cybercrime in UK have reportedly increased by an appreciable level during the last year owing to a significant rise in occurrence of online financial frauds.  The report published by...

Just a few days after Psystar and Apple settled their disagreements through an out-of-court mediation, the company is apparently looking to push Apple even further with a Macbook laptop clone and a Mac-based system with a...

It was only a few years ago that i-Mate were riding high in the mobile market selling the most desirable PocketPC devices.  From the SP3 through to the K-JAM they made the market for Microsoft mobile products.  So it...

Identity thieves and hackers striking Windows users on all fronts, as Russia rears its head higher in the Dirty Dozen league of spam-relaying nations. IT security and control firm Sophos has released the results of its...

BT has been caught cheating on the Ministry of Defence in a bid to meet call targets and has been ordered to pay £1.3 million after the fraud was put in the limelight by the National Audit Office at the telecom giant's...

Datz Music Lounge is the latest online music service to launch and boosts a 1.4 million song catalog from EMI, Warner Music and a number of independent labels, all for a 12-month contract costing £99.99. Users will be able...

The plight of Gill and Ken Murdoch has highlighted the case of innocent bystanders being caught in the war between the entertainment industry and those who flout the law by illegally downloading games over the internet. The...

Interesting to read a story on the Industry Standard earlier this week about how the portal has spotted the fact that a number of Paypal accounts have been compromised for around 16 months and eBay, which owns Paypal, has...

The popular social network for professionals, Linkedln, has started to offer third party productivity application over its network.   Currently most applications offered on Linkedln are productivity based and their...

It seems that Motorola is all set to trim down the development of its mobile phone platforms and plans to focus on Google’s Android operating systems for its phones.  A recent report published in the Wall Street...

The ongoing row related to software patenting has finally reached the European Patent Office (EPO) Enlarged body of Appeal which incidentally is the highest appeals body in the EPO.  The move to refer the contentious issue...

Buffalo's DriveStation with TurboUSB offers unprecedented USB performance enhanced by TurboUSB. An innovative, fan-less design and power-saving mode make this DriveStation a dependable, economical and silent...

In the multimedia world, size and resolution matter. The AMW X2210WDS offers a 54.9cm diagonal panel alongside a resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels (16:10 aspect ratio) with a blistering response time of 5ms.  Add to this...

Security firm Thales released a survey showing that despite high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organisations still do not know if they will encrypt their backup tapes and half do...