Articles Posted on 04 November 2008
Five websites you need to watch for the 2008 US Presidency
News Mobile & Telco
We're just 5 minutes from the first forecasts for the historic 2008 US elections which will decide who between Barack Obama and John McCain will be the next US president. In a few minutes, just after midnight, online websites...
£60 ZyXEL PLA401 200Mbps Powerline Integrated Homeplug Adapter Pair
News Hardware
The PowerLine HomePlug AV Adapters 200Mbps allows your home to be completely networked using your existing plug sockets. Ideal for streaming high definition video content, audio streaming, gaming and Internet...
£500 Sony Vaio VGNNR21Z/T.CEK Laptop
News Software
Save more than £200 on this laptop. The Sony Vaio VGNNR21Z/T.CEK features a sharp and bright 15.4 inch wide X-black LCD for natural looking pictures and Windows Vista Home Premium for enhanced navigation and multimedia...
Converged communication networks : What you need to know
News Hardware
With the growth of converged communication networks and its spread to the SME’s, it is important to be aware of pitfalls these companies can fall into considering cost effectiveness vs. delivered value. While it is...
Why you should keep (some) tech resources in-house
News Security
When I hear about the entire responsibilities of a network being handed over to an outsourcing company (from the safe hands of in-house engineers), I wonder whether the world has gone mad! Here are some guys whose jobs are...
Let's stop capitalizing "trojan"
News Security
If you write about malware, how many times a day do see something like this? There’s absolutely no sound grammatical reason to consider the word “trojan”, in the context of malware, a proper...
More cheap handsets from Nokia - More redundancies?
News Consumer
Nokia’s ability to design, manufacture and market low cost handsets is really second to none. With its announcement of another seven affordable handsets, Nokia can seemingly ‘publish’ the millions of new...
Sky and Virgin Media Kiss and Make Up After Dispute Over Channels
News Security
Tough times call for desperate measures and prompted BSkyB and Virgin Media to agree to go back to square one after nearly two years of a very public row over distribution of Sky's basic package to Virgin Media customers. As...
Is ERA's "MP3 Compatible" Logo Scheme A Loss Of Time?
News Software
The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has launched an initiative backed by major online music stores to promote MP3 compatible as an international standard. Major names like HMV, Tesco or Zavvi (ex Virgin) have already...
Vodafone Launches Super Dongle with 4GB Storage Space
News Hardware
Dongles will disappear sooner or later as new laptops and netbooks integrate SIM readers making them redundant. But now, Vodafone has launched a brand new USB Stick Pro Mobile broadband dongle which not only provides with HSDPA...
Asus Aims At Apple's MacBook Air With Ultra Thin, "Cheap" ZX Netbook
News Hardware
That is going to be Uber interesting. Asus is planning to launch a 12-inch ultra thin notebook that will be using the same chassis as the EEE PC S101 laptop and aimed squarely at the high end of the market. Priced at around...
US court narrows scope for business method patents
News Security
One of the US's highest courts has ruled that business methods cannot be patented unless they meet a test laid down by the Supreme Court. It has overruled a test set by a lower court and narrowed the scope of business...
MPs in Last-Ditch Attempt To Save McKinnon From Extradition
News Security
Now a cross party coalition of MPs have come forward in favour of the infamous UK hacker Gary McKinnon, who was charged with breaching US Military computer network. The group of MPs have urged UK home secretary, Jacqui Smith, to...
Google Fixes Android Security Issue With Quick Fix
News Mobile & Telco
Google has finally reacted to the Android flaw discovered a few days back, by announcing a security patch to fix it. Back on 24 October, a team of security researchers from Independent Security Evaluators, headed by Charlie...
Nokia 3610 Fold - More bang for your buck!
News Consumer
Once again Nokia delivers a low cost, high quality handset. The 3610 Fold is a clamshell design, packing a 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSDHC cards. Yeah we know a 1.3 megapixel camera isn't...
£152.75 Dell Power Edge T105 AMD Opteron Quad Core 1352
News Hardware
The stand-alone, AMD-based Dell PowerEdge T105 1-socket tower server offers simplified server computing for small businesses. An ideal choice for the first-time server buyer or a small business owner, the PowerEdge T105 is...
Blackberry Bold Preview Video
News Mobile & Telco
We had the pleasure of unboxing the Blackberry Bold earlier last week and I have to say I was impressed with the design of the device along with the Graphical User Interface that shined through on the devices crystal...
£11.99 Linksys WUSB300N Wireless-N Draft 2.0 USB Adapter
News Hardware
Treat your PC to some Wireless-N performance this Halloween for only £11.99. The Wireless-N USB Network Adapter uses the very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By overlaying the...
Blackberry Storm Set to Launch On Friday, Joined By Hamilton
News Mobile & Telco
The Blackberry Storm - one of the many pretenders to the iPhone crown - will be available on pre-order basis at Phones4U this Friday. The Storm sports a sleek new stylish look and is fully loaded with a plenty of useful features...
Asus EEE PC Top 1602 Touchscreen Desktop Gets Launched
News Hardware
Asus is firing on all cylinders it seems. It has released specifications of its 15.6-inch touch screen desktop Eee PC, the Top 1602 and has publicised its “powerful multimedia capabilities”. Sporting a 1.6GHz Intel...
Asus Plans £120 EEE Netbook in 2009
News Mobile & Telco
In a bid to offer cheaper netbook versions for the US market, Asus has announced price cuts in its Eee PCs next year. While declaring company’s financial results, Jerry Shen, President of Asus, announced that the...
Yoyotech Sells "Fastest PC" In the World... Powered By Vista Home
News Software
For only £4000, you can claim the bragging rights to the world's fastest PC in the world, beating an 8-core Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC system in the respected SPEC peak integer rate benchmark. The Fi7EPOWER MLK1610 uses...
Centaurus 1.0 r5
News Consumer
Koblo is a music community that helps you make music and promote your songs, band or label. Koblo Studio is our free, open source music editor that you can use to create, edit and remix songs on both Mac and Windows - at no...
EZ Backup Quicken Premium 6.1
News Hardware
EZ Backup Quicken Premium allows you to backup your Quicken data files to any local or network drive and even to CD/DVD, as a self-restoring archive. The scheduling feature can provide a completely automated backup solution and...
Virgin Atlantic sacks 13 over Facebook comments
News Security
Virgin Atlantic has dismissed 13 staff because of comments they made on social networking site Facebook. The staff, all cabin crew, broke the company's policies, the airline said. The cabin crew had posted comments in a...
Wikipedia content will be set free for collaboration if licence change approved
News Security
Content published on user-generated encyclopaedia Wikipedia might soon be usable along with content from other open source information projects. The licence under which Wikipedia is published currently makes that impossible in...
