Articles Posted on 09 December 2008
£799 Acer Aspire 9920, Intel C2D 2.4Ghz, 20.1" WXGA, 4GB, 500GB, HD DVD
News Hardware
The Aspire 9920 has been designed for home users that want the ultimate in entertainment. Powered by the latest Intel Centrino 2 Duo platform it features a stunning 20" display managed by the NVidia GeForce 8600M-GT graphics...
Mind mapping workspace enables e-learning package - breaking the cycle of abuse
News Cloud
When Lord Laming published the report of his enquiry into the events surrounding the death of Victoria Climbié, an important finding was that information about Victoria had not been properly recorded and communication...
Top 17 Features That Our Desktop Replacement Laptop Would Have
News Software
This week, we will be pondering over five different types of laptops with the view of producing separate templates that we will be pushing on Asus/Intel's Wepc.com soon. The laptop designs are Server Laptop, Gaming laptop,...
Learning and classification of malware
News Security
Thorsten Holz and Carsten Willems, our partners in Sunbelt CWSandbox, have collaborated with Konrad Rieck, Patrick Dussel and Pavel Laskov on a paper, “Learning and Classification of Malware Behavior”.The abstract...
£80 Acer V193HQB 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor
News Hardware
The best buy for those who require budget-friendly performance, Acer V Series monitors offer a powerful display solution with an affordable price tag. Designed for word processing and graphics rendering, Acer V Series monitors...
RIM's Blackberry Javelin Curve 8900 Reaches British Stores
News Mobile & Telco
RIM has launched the Javelin Curve 8900 Smartphone, which is a step down the Blackberry Bold 9000, but should be a popular model with hardcore Crackberry users looking to stay close to the company's business ethos. The...
Acer Takes Asus's Crown In Netbook Battle For World Domination
News Mobile & Telco
Acer has managed to overtake Asus in the booming Netbook market as it shipped 2.15 million Aspire One in the last quarter compared to 1.7m EEE PC according to research analyst firm, Displaysearch. The worldwide market accounted...
BBC Plans To Open Up iPlayer To Rivals As Kangaroo Plans Falter
News Software
The BBC is about to open up the iPlayer platform to all the other major UK broadcasters as a result of the recent public service broadcasting review ordered by Ofcom. According to the Guardian - which cites sources close...
Keep engineering resources in-house
News Security
Outsourcing works well in many areas of business activity, but I want to sound a note of caution. In fact, when I hear about companies taking their network management operations out of the safe hands of their experienced and...
Sony To Cull 8000 Jobs Worldwide To Cut Running Costs
News Mobile & Telco
Japanese Consumer Electronics giant Sony has announced that it will cut 8,000 jobs worldwide in a bid to save more than $1 billion as the firm seeks to revive its fortunes amidst growing competition, a slowing global economy and...
Half of MP3 Players' Users Could Become Deaf
News Software
The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) has published a survey that showed that nearly seven out of ten people that listen to music through portable MP3 players are at risk of losing their hearing because of the high...
ISPs Ban On Wikipedia "Child Porn" Page Hints At Online Moral Dilemma
News Software
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, could challenge British Internet Service Providers in the high court over the ban of a controversial page showing the 1976 album cover of Scorpion's Virgin Killer. Speaking to Channel 4...
Shoppers At Risk As Cyber Scammers Play Secret Santa
News Security
The government is not investing enough in the fight against online cyber-crime accordinag to a survey published by security firm McAfee and released yesterday and criminals are literally cashing in on it. McAfee underlined the...
£146.80 Cooler Master Cosmos 1100 S Sport Black Case (No PSU)
News Software
Since its introduction, Cooler Master's COSMOS PC Chassis has garnering numerous awards and accolades around the world. Each line of COSMOS is born with elegant heritage originated from devotion to prudence and innovation. It is...
£959 HyperOS SATA2 DDR2 HyperDrive5 + 2009 Supergeek + 32GB Valueram
News Hardware
The HyperDrive5 is the fastest Internal Hard Disk in the World. It performs at around 40,000 random read and write balanced 0.5KB file Inputs and Outputs per second as measured by Intel's IOmeter Benchmark). If that...
Sun Microsystems Pushes Out MySQL v5.1
News Software
Sun Microsystems on Monday unleashed the next iteration of MySQL database, tagged as “MySQL 5.1”, offering improved partitioning, replication, and simplified administration features. MySQL 5.1, which according...
McAfee To Collaborate With Liquid Machine On Data Loss Prevention
News Security
Liquid Machines Inc., best known for their effective Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, has joined forces with McAfee Inc. to check the loss of corporate intellectual property and industry or regulated...
Google To Add Advertising To iPhone, G1 Smartphones
News Software
Google Inc. on Monday announced that it is expanding its Adwords reach, by optimizing the service, to include ads specifically designed for iPhone and G1 handsets, which present a robust web-browser to its...
Koobface Malware Still Posing Huge Security Issues
News Security
The nasty Koobface worm is back with a bang and is affecting Facebook users severely, by sending messages to friends of infected users that trick them into visiting links apparently offering video-clips, followed by prompting...
Reports Press Obama To Invest In US Cybersecurity
News Security
Cyber security is turning out to be one of the major national security issues for the US and a new report published on Monday urges President-elect Barrack Obama to create a new post to tackle the snags in cybersecurity...
Comment: Half of all UK companies at Risk Due to Security Complacency
News Security
UK companies claim to understand the security challenges their businesses face and the consequences of non-compliance, yet almost half (48 percent) fail to do enough to protect their information assets, according to new research...
Stephen Fry Lambasts Vista and Sony Laptops, Become Biggest Twitter Outside US
News Security
One of UK's favourite comedians, Stephen Fry, demonstrated once again that he's as witty in real life as he is in movies thanks to the power of Twitter (where he's about to reach 29.000 followers) and that's he's actually a very...
Court upholds 'Sequin Art' trade mark, says it is not descriptive
News Security
The trade mark 'Sequin Art' alludes to the nature of a product but does not describe it, the High Court has ruled. Its use on craft kits that allow purchasers to create pictures with sequins has become distinctive with use, it...
PALIT Radeon HD 4870 512MB Sonic Dual Video Card
News Hardware
Having already taken a crowbar to prices like a spree-killing Yellow Man, the 4870's refresh seems overdue. The card, stonkin' as it is, has an annoying stock heatsink and a lot of untapped overclocking potential. There's a...
Norton AntiVirus 2009
News Security
Norton AntiVirus 2009 provides fast, responsive defense against all types of malicious software including viruses, spyware, worms, and other software threats. It protects your system without slowing it down. Rapid pulse updates...
DFI Lanparty LT X48 T3RS
News Software
When the X48 chipset came around we all questioned if it would be able to surpass the already supreme X38 chipset. Those doubts were immediately put to rest when overclockers were able to reach record CPU speeds. The X48 chipset...
US insurance regulators vote to change collateral rules for foreign reinsurers
News Software
Non-US reinsurers could benefit from less stringent collateral requirements when they write business in America under proposals adopted this week by the US National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Current rules...
