Articles Posted on 17 April 2009
ECS A790GXM-AD3 Review
News Software
With the latest CPU socket from AMD supporting DDR3 memory we are seeing boards that support them. We recently reviewed a 790GX based offering from MSI and today we are going to take a look at another board based on the same...
Pirate Bay Convictions Are Legally Insignificant Outside Sweden
News Security
A court in Sweden has found the co-founders of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright offences. Each of them has been sentenced to one year in prison. But while the ruling has symbolic significance outside Sweden,...
Wikipedia Declines Phorm's Invitation; Opts-Out of Controversial Advertising System
News Security
Online Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has opted out of Phorm's behavioural ad targeting, user tracking scheme, a few days after Amazon chose to do so. The site, which is the 7th most visited website in the world (and the 10th most...
Facebook Seeks Users' Approval On T&Cs
News Security
Facebook stuck to its promise to make the social networking website governance more transparent and democratic by allowing users to vote on whether they want to use the existing terms of service or not. Voting started on the 16th...
Cisco Discloses More Details About Its Unified Computing Strategy
News Hardware
Within a month after joining the blade server domain with its new Unified Computing System (UCS), the networking giant Cisco Systems on Thursday divulged additional details on its UCS offering for data centres, including pricing...
Microsoft Denies Blocking Office 2010 Beta General Release
News Software
Microsoft Corp. has rejected rumours that it will not be releasing public beta to its upcoming Office 2010 suite. The spokesperson for the company notified that Microsoft will stick to its conventional development pattern,...
Pirate Bay Quartet Jailed For One Year
News Security
The four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), a high-profile file sharing website that enables users to share music, movies and games, were found guilty of infringing copyright law and sentenced to one year in jail. A Swedish...
iTunes Variable Pricing Scheme Caused Sales To Decline
News Hardware
Last week’s price hike at iTunes store has reportedly affected the unit sales of some of its most popular tracks, but the digital download service eventually managed to register small growth in its overall...
Security Breaches Blamed On Organised Criminal Gangs Says Verizon
News Security
A recent study from Verizon Business has revealed that there were more database breaches recorded in 2008 than in the last four years put together, with businesses suffering a significant rise in hacking attacks during the...
Ashton Kutcher Becomes First Twitterer With One Million Followers
News Web
It seems that the race between actor Ashton Kutcher and CNN to become the first to have a million Twitter followers is on the verge of ending with the former appearing to be well placed to emerge as a clear winner. (ed: Since...
Nokia Profits Collapse By 96 Percent, Losing Out On ASP
News Hardware
Things have really gone from bad to worse for mobile handset manufacturers with the global economic recession taking a big bite of the companies’ profits and even the industry leader Nokia has suffered hefty losses in its...
Google Hits Ceiling, Q1 Revenue Growth Slows Down
News Mobile & Telco
The ongoing recession in the global economy has taken its toll on almost every industry and even Google is not untouched by the recessionary trend, with the search engine biggie posting its first revenue drop in consecutive...
Business Continuity Needs Clear Role Definition…
News Hardware
When developing your business continuity plans (and even more so when actually using those plans to respond to a crisis) it’s essential that everyone involved understands them and their associated roles and...
