Articles Posted on 04 September 2009
Verbatim 2.5-inch 500GB External Hard Disk Drive Review
News Hardware
Verbatim is trying to catch up the next evolution in the storage market and has started to move away from its traditional bread and butter, removable media such as blank optical media, flash media and tapes.The 40-year old...
UK Boffins Perform First Optical Quantum Calculation
News Hardware
A team of engineers at the University of Bristol have managed to solve a mathematical problem using photons and could herald the birth of super-powerful computers over the next few decades. The scientists devised a photonic chip...
MSI X600 Ultra Slim Laptop To Cost £599
News Hardware
MicroStar International or MSI has announced that the extremely slim X600, the company's competitor to the MacBook Air, will be available in the UK for £599 by the end of the month. The laptop is the slimmest ever released...
Vodafone To Launch Eight Mobile Phones
News Mobile & Telco
Vodafone, UK's largest mobile phone operator, has announced that it will be adding eight more own-branded mobile phones to its current range of models. Around 23 such portables have been released since Vodafone started the...
Intel CEO Says Recession In PC Industry Is Almost Over
News Hardware
The Chief Executive of the world's largest semiconductor firm, Intel, has affirmed that the PC industry worldwide is likely to sell as many computers in 2009 as it did in 2008. Speaking to Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC, Paul...
Samsung Still Leads The Way In LED TVs Sales
News Consumer
Samsung has introduced a full set of LED televisions at the IFA event in Germany, showing that it will be powering ahead with the production of the super slim TV panels. The Korean consumer electronic giant sees LED televisions...
E-Crime Unit Targets Over 100 Fake Ticket Websites
News Security
Over 100 websites have been targeted in a police operation targeting the selling of fake tickets for football matches. Police claim the action is the biggest concerted shut down campaign they have ever conducted. The Police...
Apple Finally Solves Snow Leopard's "Spinning Wheel Of Death"?
News Business & Government
Apple scrambled to provide a handful of patches for a technical glitch, referred to as “the spinning wheel of death”, which occurs when they attempt to upgrade to Apple’s new operating system. Incidentally,...
Bletchley's 50 Year Old Computer To Work Again
News Security
The Harwell, the UK’s oldest original computer, is now being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley, where engineers will work to restore it to working order. The vintage machine was originally designed back...
Ealing Council Faces £1.1 Million Security Bill After Viral Attack
News Security
Work at Ealing council in West London was seriously crippled after one of its employees plugged a virus-infected memory stick into a computer which then infected to the whole IT infrastructure, it has been reported. The incident...
EU To Look Into Oracle-Sun $7.4bn Deal
News Business & Government
European Union regulators have launched an antitrust investigation into the Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying that they wanted to ensure Oracle would continue to develop Sun’s rival database Open-source...
ISPs Slam Government Anti Piracy Plans In Open Letter
News Hardware
The UK government’s proposed plans to disconnect the internet connections of users who illicitly download movies, music, and games are “misconceived”, and jeopardise internet users’ rights, according to...
Millions at Risk As One Password Rules Many Logins
News Security
As many as 1.7 million PC users in the UK could fall victim to cyber frauds because they use the same password for multiple account logins on the web, according to a recent research. The document, commissioned by the card insurer...
