Articles Posted on 07 January 2009
UK PC Gaming Market Dead? It Shrunk by 31 Percent In A Year
News Consumer
Figures published by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) on the 6th of January showed that last year, its members have sold more DVDs, games and music than ever before. Time for Champagne? Not yet. There's a massive...
Intel's Q4 Revenue Warning Spells Trouble For Tech Industry
News Hardware
Semiconductor giant Intel has announced that it expects revenue to drop by as much as 23 percent for its fourth quarter, causing its stock to drop more than six percent at the time of writing (ed: it is up slightly in after...
An example of a hacked site
News Security
We’re working on getting this taken down. However, it’s something that may be of interest. Offenbachers.com is hacked — badly. The webserver performs a 302 redirect if the referrer is found. Seeing the hack...
Indian Outsourcing Giant Satyam Hit By Huge Accounting Fraud
News Security
The chairman of Satyam Computer Limited, one of India's largest IT companies, has resigned after having revealed that he had systematically altered his company accounts for a number of years to show that Satyam had $1 billion...
T-Mobile Launches Youtube Channel For G1 Android Phone
News Mobile & Telco
T-Mobile has launched a sponsored Youtube Channel for its Android Smartphone, the G1, where you will be able to watch video guides related to the most used features of phone in high quality mode. OpenTMobile has attracted only...
Games Industry Records 38 Percent Increase In Sales
News Hardware
Sales of computer and console games have been growing significantly in 2008 according to the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) despite the current economic climate and the loss of the industry's biggest player,...
Rumour Mill : Microsoft To Dish Out Free Windows 7 Upgrades?
News Hardware
Rumours on the blogosphere indicate that Microsoft will provide free Windows 7 upgrades to those users, who purchase Windows Vista PCs after July 2009 (ed : just like they provide free Windows XP for those purchasing Windows...
HP Wants To Produce Big Netbooks; Appeals To Intel
News Mobile & Telco
HP is urging Intel to relax its limitations for screen-size the chip giant puts on systems that can employ the Atom processors for netbooks, according to sources. As of now, Intel’s Atom processor can be used in the...
5 Reasons Why Downloads Won't Kill CD and DVD Sales
News Security
Latest figures have shown that sales of DVDs and CDs are still strong despite the growing challenges posed by online piracy, music downloads and the current economic conditions. Lumped altogether, DVD, Bluray and CDs represent...
Best Buy Now Selling Second Hand iPhones
News Mobile & Telco
In order to lure cost-conscious users, Best Buy Co. on Tuesday announced that it is offering cheaper refurbished iPhone 3G devices, at nearly $50 less than the new models. The consumer electronics chain claimed that the...
LG To Launch LCD Television With Integrated Freesat
News Security
LG has penned a contract with Freesat, the free-to-air-satellite broadcasting company, to launch products integrated with Freesat functionality, sometime this year. Though the venture will kick start with manufacturing...
UK Crime Maps Now Available Online
News Security
In a bid to enhance public’s awareness on criminal activities, police forces across England and Wales will begin offering online maps which will portray details about crime patterns prevalent in any particular area....
UIQ/Motorola slow motion car crash continues
News Hardware
There will be a point in time I don’t have to concern myself with UIQ, especially as UIQ Tech has gone into administration. O2 obviously decided to bail out of their remaining UIQ inventory with a knock down shop...
Podcast : See What It Takes To Securely Process 1 Terabyte Worth Of Data Per Second Over The Web
News Web
Ravi Maira, Marketing Director at Akamai Technologies and Ben Chai of Incomingthought.com, discusse Worldwide online security and how Akamai deals with securing transactions online for the likes of Bestbuy, Amazon, Boots and...
2009 ... Good Year or Bad Year For Tech?
News Hardware
Recession, unprecedented financial turmoil, unheard of levels of national debt, banks being propped up by us, the great British public, the car industry on the verge of collapse and even good old 'Woolies' failing - one could be...
Enterprise Deduplication: Tools of the Trade
News Hardware
There is an old saying “a carpenter is only as good as his tools.” The same is true of enterprise deduplication. Using a department or small-business size deduplication technology in an enterprise data center is like...
Google Earth Voyager 6.0
News Security
Google Earth Voyager (GEV) is a program for automatically building a Google Earth cache file for a specified geographic area. GEV does this by controlling Google Earth, making it systematically scan over the area you want to...
NetGong 6.7 build 1110
News Security
NetGong is a sophisticated network monitoring solution that allows network administrators, Webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive...
