Articles Posted on 29 December 2008
Western Digital WDH1U10000 1TB USB External Hard Disk Drive 16MB Buffer 2 yr wty
News Hardware
Are you running out of hard drive capacity? Do you need to archive some important digital documents, photos, or music? This elegant external hard drive, reminiscent of a book, is the perfect solution. It takes no more...
£185.76 Dell Inspiron Mini 9 N270 Ubuntu Netbook
News Software
Stay connected to your world virtually wherever you go. Inspiron Mini 9's small, virtually weightless design lets you travel light while keeping up with your blog, video chat, instant messenger and email so that you never lose...
£39.14 Iomega 250GB Portable Hard Drive
News Hardware
The pocket-sized USB powered Iomega Prestige Portable Hard Drive requires no external power supply – just plug it in and go, all in a great sturdy aluminium construction. And with the Drop Shock feature, the Prestige...
LG Launches Dual SIM Capable KS660 Touchscreen Smartphone
News Mobile & Telco
The KS660 from LG is one of the first Dual SIM high end smartphones to be put on the market by one of the mainstream manufacturers, a feature that tends to be present on dubious clone smartphones sold in Asia. Although it won't...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 New rogue security products Few Rogue Security applications seen in the last week of December. A
News Security
Thorsten Holz, one of our partners in our Sunbelt CWSandbox has published a good paper on the underground economy. We study an active underground economy that trades stolen digital credentials.We present a method with which...
Scam alert: "Celebrity Sexy Teeth"
News Security
Normally, I write about malware scams. However, I have been seeing quite a few ads recently along the lines of “Teeth Whiteners Exposed”. Curious, my scam radar started going off. I know a fair...
2009, an even bigger year for Netbooks
News Software
Netbooks have been without doubt the big winners of 2008 as an overwhelming number of laptop manufacturers have succumbed to their appeal; with the only outcasts being Panasonic and Sony. 2008 has already been a big year for...
Google To Roll Out UK Street View Feature In Spring 2009
News Security
Search Giant Google is set to debut Street View for UK some time next year as the mind-numbing process of collating and processing millions of photographs of Britain's streets and roads continues unabated. Street View has been...
5 reasons why Cinema-like ratings For English websites will Ultimately fail
News Security
Andy Burnham, UK's Culture, Media and Sports Secretary, is backing plans to introduce Cinema-like ratings for websites, amongst a number of things which has attracted a number of comments (and even prompted Mike Butcher from...
Broadband UK Is Rapidly Falling Behind Says Microsoft Researcher
News Hardware
The UK government should massively invest in a plan to upgrade the nation's communication network to fibre-optic to boost the country's broadband capacity according to Professor Christopher Bishop, chief scientist at Microsoft...
IP Troll Sues Microsoft, Apple And Google Over Image Previews
News Security
A small Indiana-based firm has sued some of the biggest tech behemoths, including the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple, saying that it owns a patent on general previewing feature used by most of the operating systems and...
Windows 7 Beta Appears on Torrent Sites
News Software
The first beta of Microsoft’s Windows 7, which is expected to be released sometime in mid-January next year, has appeared on a Bit Torrent website last week. The version has been leaked into the wild, and is...
Human Powered TV Remote Control Gets Launched
News Hardware
If you are really sick of changing batteries of your TV’s remote control again and again, then its time rejoice as a manufacturer has introduced a ‘Wind-Up’ remote control to address the issue. Launched...
Apple Files Patent Application For "Swipe-gesture" Features
News Hardware
Extending the scope of touchscreen gesture-based swipe system beyond its latest range of Macbooks, Apple Inc. is all set to bring the same into its blockbuster iPhone device, according to reports. The US Patent and...
Next Version of the Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" Pops Up
News Hardware
It seems that Apple is geared up to introduce next iteration of its OS X, tagged as “Snow Leopard” with a German website releasing some screenshots of finalized version of the same. The new operating...
£69.99 Hannsg HG191A 19-inch Widescreen TFT
News Hardware
With a quick 5ms video response time, the Hanns.G HG191A renders motion beautifully. A high resolution and rich colour palette makes this TFT screen a visual pleasure. All at an accountant-pleasing price of £69.99. With a...
£1269.89 LG Plasma TV 60PG3000 60-inch Plasma Screen
News Hardware
Enjoy bright images and amazing precision with the 60PG3000 from LG. This 60" screen offers high definition resolution for your favourite films and TV programmes, and uses 100 Hz scanning to reduce lag by calculating frames at...
Reg Organizer 4.23 Beta 1
News Security
Reg Organizer offers a variety of tools required for effective System Registry and configuration files management. This software lets you view, edit and clean the Registry and preview the registry files you want to import...
Google chief joins Commission privacy advisory body
News Hardware
Google's privacy law expert has been appointed to a committee which will advise the European Commission on data protection policy. Google has previously clashed with EU privacy watchdogs on data protection issues. Google's global...
