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newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
IT Week reports that business is just too slow to respond to cyber-criminals, and as a result the hackers are simply worried about their ability to prevent them breaking in. The article quotes Dan Hubbard, the Vice President of Security Research at Websense as saying that from a purely...
Read More | Apr 10th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Apr 11th, 2008
Word is that HP will debut the new Mini-Note micro-notebook PC next week, with the $500 base model shipping with a SuSe Linux OS. With an 8.9 inch display and a spill-resistant keyboard which somehow only manages to be around 8% smaller than a standard notebook device, the aluminium encased...
Read More | Apr 9th, 2008
According to reports it looks possible that the next big upgrade to the Windows OS, the fabled Windows 7, could arrive much earlier than expected. Within the next 12 months even. And who is responsible for making this prediction? None other than Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates himself,...
Read More | Apr 7th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Apr 7th, 2008
The word online is that Apple is facing legal action over its claims the MacBook range supports millions of colours. This might actually be true were it not, say the reports, for the small matter of Apple ditching the old 16,777,216 colour supporting 8-bit displays used in MacBooks and replacing...
Read More | Apr 3rd, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 3rd, 2008
Oh the irony. According to The Inquirer and others it would appear that Sony BMG, you know the same Sony BMG that has fought such a high profile and bitter legal war against individuals for copyright violation by using music file sharing sites, is itself in trouble on charges of using pirated...
Read More | Mar 31st, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 2nd, 2008
Mac OS X is not, on the whole, known as an OS which attracts too many problems when it comes to malware. However, in the last few days there has been something of a scare involving the Immunizator Trojan. According to IT security specialists Sophos this may well just be a case of one bad apple...
Read More | Mar 29th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 163 | Views: 316,114 | Last Entry: 8 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 315 votes, 4.83 average
happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK. Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
It should come as no surprise that the upcoming 'Patch Tuesday' from Microsoft should include critical patches covering the likes of VBScript and Jscript implementation in Windows 2000, XP and 2003. However, some reporters have expressed just a little astonishment that both Windows Server 2008 and...
Read More | Apr 4th, 2008
According to unified threat management specialist Fortinet Facebook users had better start paying attention to the postings that appear on their message wall within the popular social networking site. It appears that spammers are moving away from targeting third party applications, as evidenced in...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2008
Security provider Webroot has today published its State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email research report and estimates that every single business email account will receive some 42,000 spams during the course of 2008. Or 116 junk messages every single day if you prefer. That is an...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 2nd, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 465 | Views: 1,381,875 | Last Entry: 8 Days Ago | Overall Rating: Rating: 699 votes, 4.78 average
Wordpress 2.5 has been under development for 6 months. This past weekend, Matt Mullenweg announced the release of Wordpress 2.5 at his keynote during WordCamp Dallas 2008. You can read more about Wordpress on Wikipedia. You can get your copy here: click here But most of all, a huge congrats to...
Read More | Mar 31st, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 3 | Views: 2,002 | Last Entry: Jun 3rd, 2008 | Overall Rating: Rating: 3 votes, 5 average
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