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WWW Inventor Calls For Endangered Web To Be Protected

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

The man who invented the world wide web is now calling for it to be preserved as a platform for innovation by keeping it open and free for all

Meet Lively, Google's Just Released Virtual World

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

Google has presented a beta version of brand new Virtual world called Lively (motto : Express yourself in rooms you create) and is being presented a a 3D Virtual Experience straight from Google Labs

Microsoft Cautions Its Users Against MS Access Database Flaw

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

Microsoft researchers have warned users of a new potential attack on its Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which allows users to view Access report snapshot without using the standard version of Microsoft Office Access

Microsoft Eyeing Yahoo! Yet Again, Mulls Plans To Oust Board

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

Microsoft seems to be a rather persistent contender, even after the failed deal with Yahoo! in January, Microsoft, it seems that it is just waiting for the opportune moment to pounce on Yahoo!

MEPs Backs the New Telecom Amendments

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

Despite resistance from several Digital Rights Groups, the Members of European Parliament (MEPs) have voted in favour of new amendments in telecom laws, which are proposed to check illicit file sharing across internet

Prospects of Black Market 3G iPhones Frenzy Loom As O2 Clocks 13,000 Orders Per Second

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

O2 has only received a fraction of what it has ordered with Apple, prompting fears of "very short supply for some week to come", according to an email received by a customer from none-other than O2 sales director Steve Shurrock

Peers Committee Reports Slow Progress in Tackling UK Cybercrime

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

A Report from House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology has revealed that the UK government is responding rather slowly to instances of cybercrime that are cropping out throughout the country

Sony Finally Upgrades Its Micro Memory Card To 8GB

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

Sony Ericsson has come up with its 8GB memory card for its mobile phone users but for most it is too little too late

Apple resting to 9 in the ‘burbs

Tim Belfall — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

If you’re desperate for an iPhone 3G, didn’t crash into the O2 web site on Monday and live in the sticks, you have an extra hour of snooze time on Friday morning

T-Mobile to launch Google Android Phone Fairly Soon Say Rumour Mongers

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

The rumour mills are buzzing again and they say T-Mobile is all set to come out with Google’s Android phone this October when T-Mobile USA goes the 3G way

DreamWorks And Intel Forge Partnership To Improve Cartoon Factory

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

DreamWorks Animation has decided to collaborate with Intel to use its high performance chips to create groundbreaking 3D animation

Comment : EU mobile operators are unable to stop price gouging even when their own numbers say they should

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

The GSMA (global trade association representing more than 750 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 territories) recently released data showing that a 25% decrease in data roaming costs between April 2007 and April 2008 increased consumer usage by 75% (a price/demand elasticity that virtually any other industry should covet)

What's a contactless card?

Steve Gold — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

It's a reflection, I think, of Visa and MasterCard effectively leaving the UK behind in the contactless payment card stakes, with the results of a poll of UK citizens out this week showing that 88 per cent of us haven't heard of the card system.

MPAA supports military-grade encryption

Steve Gold — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

Interesting to see that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is approving the use of the DreamStream "military strength" 2048-bit encryption to protect online video streaming content.

600 Million Web Users At Risks Due To Obsolete Browsers

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

Researchers at the Swiss Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, IBM and Google carried out an 18-month study and found out that most Internet Explorer users are not using fully patched (and safer) browsers

BT Spins 70Km Fiber Optic Cable To Connect Northern Isles To 21CN

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

BT plans to lay a 70Km long fiber optic submarine cable that will connect the Scottish mainland with the Northern Isles and is the latest in a series of of updates aimed at bringing the Faroe Islands, Orkney and Shetland closer to the broadband revolution

A Sneak Peek at Firefox 3.1 Pre-Alpha Shiretoko

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

As Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is nearing 30 million downloads, ITProportal.com sheds some light on the forthcoming Firefox 3.1 Pre-Alpha version codenamed Shiretoko, the precursor of the next Big Firefox push

Application Licensing, Lack of Expertise are Obstacles To Euro-Virtualisation Says IDC

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

A report published by International Data Corporation (IDC) singled out software licensing as one of the main reasons why virtualisation is not experiencing a much bigger growth in Europe

DRM-Less MP3 Downloads Explode As 7Digital Traffic Triples

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

The tide is turning as sales of physical media dwindle while online music sales skyrocket; 7digital.com is the latest to reveal that music downloads are literally flying off their virtual shelves

IT Sector Shrugs Recession As Demand For Professionals Bucks Trend Of Economic Decline

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

Whilst many sectors of the UK jobs market are feeling the economic pinch, the demand for high level IT professionals is set to increase over the next decade according to the IT and Telecoms Insights 2008 Employment Forecast

O2 Sells Out All its 3G Pre-ordered iPhone Stock In Seven Hours

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

In excess of 200,000 UK O2 iPhone customers have pre-registered to get their hands on the red-hot 3G Apple iPhone which will be on sale on Friday, 10 times more than the initial iPhone according to some

AVG Solves Its Fake Traffic Scan Problem

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

The virus scanning software by AVG, which apparently caused fake traffic logs on websites, has finally been fixed

UK's Information Commissioner Advocates Changes in Data Protection Laws

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

Addressing the annual conference on Privacy Laws and Business in Cambridge, UK's Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, has emphasised the need to bringing out necessary changes in European Data Protection Laws

PC World Gets One Up On Asus With Its New Atom Based 10 Inch Laptop

Desire Athow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008

When Asus launched its Eee PC 901 with Intel's Atom Processor, everyone was looking forward to Asus's 10inch netbook version with the Atom processor, however it seems that PC World has beat Asus to it with its new netbook Advent 4211

Australia's Queensland govt tender Web site hacked

Steve Gold — Mon, 07 Jul 2008

Interesting to read over the weekend that the Queensland government in Australia has revealed its central Web site for all state public sector purchasing was well and truly hacked last week.