Articles Posted on 11 February 2009
Mozilla Criticised For Helping European Commission Against Microsoft
News Software
A number of high profile bloggers and tech writers have lambasted the Mozilla Foundation after its chairperson, Mitchell Baker, announced that the entity will officially lend a helping hand to the European Commission against...
Social Networking Firms Sign Up To Kids' Protection Deal
News Security
The major social networking companies have signed a European Commission-brokered agreement to do more to protect under 18s using their services.Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo!, Microsoft and others have all committed to change...
Guardian Moves 2400 users to Google Apps
News Security
In one high profile move, the Guardian News and Media Group has dumped Microsoft Office and migrated 2400 users to Google's Apps web-based platform, further highlighting the search engine's SAAS alternative. The move is...
Intel Showcases 32nm Westmere Desktop CPUs
News Hardware
The current recession has not prevented chipmaker Intel from implementing its tick-tock strategy and is likely to further increase the performance gap with AMD with the introduction of 32nm process technology. Intel only...
Lord Carter Wants Mobile Networks To Solve Spectrum Disputes
News Hardware
In a bid to achieve his ambition of universal broadband in Britain by 2012, Lord Carter, the minister for communications has called a meeting with executives of five prominent mobile phone networks in UK in order to discuss...
Google Launches Power Monitoring Application
News Cloud
Search Engine giant Google has previewed a monitoring tool that should allow businesses and households to track their electricity usage in realtime, over time and ultimately enable them to save money. Google's starting point was...
VoIP toll fraud: Could it happen to me?
News Security
In my last column, I highlighted the plight of an Australian company where inadequate security controls lead to an expensive toll fraud attack. The real question that should be on the minds of every VoIP system administrator...
ASRock X58 Super Computer
News Software
With its X58 Super Computer motherboard ASRock aims at customers who are looking for the certain amount of extra performance. This board comes with four PCI-e 2.0 x16 Lanes, CrossFireX, Quad-CrossFireX, Quad SLI, 3-way-SLI and...
Life After Kangaroo : Channel 4 To Launch Upgraded 4oD
News Mobile & Telco
After the project Kangaroo debacle that involved some of the media heavyweights, including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4; its partners went on their own ways to fetch something out of the clutter that had consumed them a lot of...
BT To Debut Phorm Before 2009 Ends
News Security
Phorm’s chief exec Kent Ertugrul has asserted that his company’s signature ISP-level behavioral advertising service will “most definitely” be rolled out by BT across its broadband network by the end of...
Spotify Releases Music Streaming Service In UK
News Consumer
Offering a bit of relief to many music enthusiasts, audio-streaming service Spotify has finally lifted up the ‘invite only’ restrictions on its services in UK, thereby allowing all music-lovers in UK to download its...
Podcast : Exploring SSL-Explorer
News Security
(Note : This podcast was created before 3sp was acquired by Barracuda Networks) Lee David Painter, managing director of 3SP, and Jim Libersky, vice president of sales at Barrier1 group, talk with Ben Chai from...
£349 Dell Inspiron 1525 Red T3400 2GB 160GB 15.6" Laptop
News Software
Your laptop, your looks! A range of cool, new patterns, a spectrum of vibrant colors, a choice of finishes, eye-catching accents and a complement of color-coordinated accessories make the Inspiron 1525 the most colorful laptop...
£72.95 Hitachi DeskStar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache
News Hardware
The Deskstar 7K1000.B hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and performance making it an ideal solution for power-friendly consumer and commercial PCs. Leveraging seventh-generation power management...
£619.96 Samsung NP-R610-AS01UK Laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 2.0GHZ, 3GB RAM 250GB HDD
News Software
Anyone who enjoys the enhanced visual quality of High Definition (HD) multimedia will appreciate the ground-breaking design of the Samsung R610 notebook. Its innovative 16" high resolution screen has a pure 16:9 aspect...
Watching the inauguration online...or not
News Web
President Obama’s inauguration was certainly an historic occasion, and not only on a political level. It exemplified the way attitudes to online media have changed. An incredible amount of people watched the event online,...
