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 | Who would have thought, before the Nintendo Wii came along, that the idea of controlling a video game by waving a lump of plastic around in the air like a deranged loon would gain such mass appeal so quickly? Which is why I am not writing off the latest thinking … |
| | [URL="http://www.privacyinternational.org"]Privacy International[/URL] has accused Google of embarking upon a smear campaign within the media to discredit both PI and a report, to be published in full later in the year, which ranks the privacy performance of the top Internet service companies. The interim results which were [URL="http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553961"]published[/URL] on the 9th …  |
| | [FONT="]Unless you happen to have been one of the people who authorized payment of around $800,000 for the design, or were on the receiving end of it, then the chances are you will agree with the momentum of public opinion that the [URL="http://www.london2012.com/index.html"]London 2012 Olympics branding[/URL] sucks. In fact, it …  |
| | Independent Austrian antivirus testing outfit [URL="http://www.av-comparatives.org/"]AV Comparatives[/URL] has a reputation for going the extra mile when putting products through their paces. Something that Microsoft discovered to its cost earlier in the year when, rather embarrassingly, its flagship OneCare antivirus product managed to finish last and fail to get a highly …  |
| | To most people who do not actually play it, World of Warcraft is just a game. Anyone who has devoted any time at all within an immersive online world such as this will gladly put you straight on that. World of Warcraft is not just a game, it is a … |
| | Thursday 31st May is the first ever Google Developer Day, with more than 5000 developers at 10 locations around the world taking part. Keynotes and breakout sessions will be taking place in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Paris, Hamburg, London, and Mountain View, California. Both Google engineers and … |
| | The PlayStation 3 is, without doubt, a multi-talented piece of kit: state of the art games console, Blu-Ray player, media centre and more. Much more, in fact, because from the 1st June you will be able to add Linux Enterprise Server to the functionality list. That is the date from … |
| | Let me get one thing straight before I go any further. I am a caring father of four, the youngest of which is just 7 years old. If any of them were abducted, I would do everything in my power to find them. Just like any caring father. Certainly the … |
| | I couldn’t help spotting a story over the weekend relating to what was being called a groundbreaking camera that can refocus blurry images after the photo has actually been taken. The development, from the [URL="http://www.merl.com/"]Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs[/URL], uses a lens with a depth of field around ten times the … |
| | IT security professional Didier Stevens has been conducting an experiment into computer user stupidity by running a Google Adwords campaign which offers to infect your PC for free. The advert actually read: [B]Drive-By Download Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here![/B] Which should be enough to stop all but …  |
| | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the open source movement needs to “play by the same rules” as the rest of the business and claims “what’s fair is fair.” Which is pretty rich given the high profile cases involving dodgy business practice and Microsoft during the last few years. …  |
| | For the average user spam has always been an annoyance. For the average spammer it has always been about making money. For the criminal gangs that have muscled in on this lucrative industry during the last few years it is now about territory and control. Control, that is, of the …  |
| | [URL="http://www.hitachi.com"]Hitachi Global Storage Technologies[/URL] has announced the world’s highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive and it will feature in Dell and Alienware systems. The 2.5”, 200Gb, 7200rpm, Travelstar 7K200 brings twice the capacity of its predecessor as well as a 22 percent performance hike. Using Hitachi’s third-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology, … |
| | Both Second Life and Skype have come in for some bad publicity following media reports exposing pedophile activity on the hugely popular services. Second Life got a kicking from a German TV program called Report Mainz which claimed to have been approached by pedophiles inviting the reporter to attend ‘child …  |
| | Yeah, yeah, yeah – how can an operating system be environmentally unfriendly I hear you ask? User friendly, security friendly, productivity friendly even, but environmentally unfriendly? Well that is exactly the claim that I am prepared to make considering reports from the likes of [URL="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6181366.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn"]ZDNet[/URL] regarding the sorry state of …  |
| | As DaniWeb [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1319.html"]reported[/URL] back in February, the trouble with asking what your customers want is that they have a habit of letting you know in no uncertain terms. When Dell did that at their IdeaStorm site, the masses yelled ‘what we want is Linux pre-installed’ and the Michael Dell yelled … |
| | [URL="http://www.ipswitch.com"]Ipswitch Inc[/URL] has published the seventh Spamometer survey results, revealing that spam is now at its highest rate since recording began. How high would that be? Well for the same spring period last year the measure was some 62% of all received email, that has risen to an incredible 93% … |
| | That depends, to be honest, on which Internet you are talking about. For most of us mere mortals the answer will vary, depending upon how fat the pipe connecting us to the Internet is and how many people are downloading video streams over it at any given moment in time. … |
| | Microsoft has released the first public Beta version of Windows Server ‘Longhorn’ Beta 3 which can be downloaded from [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/getbeta3"]here[/URL]. This is part of what Microsoft is referring to as the ‘Second Wave of Innovation’ to be delivered during the next 12 months. It started with Vista and Office 2007, … |
| | GPS satellite navigation devices have become an indispensable part of everyday life for millions of drivers the world over. Without these little technological route planning miracles, many of us would literally crash and burn as we struggled to regain control over that map while driving too fast and drinking a …  |
| | According to a Wall Street Journal [URL="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117702021464476071-MPcTZeAQZixLGpv21JWFFypwWuw_20070520.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top"]report[/URL] the huge crash that left thousands of American Blackberry users without web or email connectivity for ten hours, or ‘a lifetime’ as most of them described it, was caused by a simple, non-critical software upgrade that just had not been tested properly before … |
| | A newly published study by web audience measurement outfit [URL="http://www.hitwise.com/"]Hitwise[/URL] has revealed that despite the media frenzy surrounding Web 2.0 sites and services, when it comes to the actual public only a minuscule number actually participate in the social networking and information sharing revolution when they visit. For example, how … |
| | My friends over at security specialists [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL] have warned me to be on the lookout for Sandra and her stiletto shoes when using [URL="http://www.skype.com"]Skype[/URL]. Usually it would be my mother offering this advice, but then she would not understand the implications of getting infected by the Pykse-A worm that exploits … |
| | Suggestions for a suitable epitaph are welcome, although I suspect ‘good riddance to insecure rubbish’ will stand the test of time as well as any other when it comes to the death of Windows XP. Yes, despite the fact that Vista has hardly set the world on fire if recent … |
| | China has officially declared war on Internet porn, and set a target of purging the web of sexually-explicit images, stories and AV clips within a six month timescale. According to the [URL="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english"]China View[/URL] official online news agency the Vice Minister of MPS, Zhang Xinfeng, is quoted as stating “the boom … |
| | Even if you do happen to live in Utah, the chances are you will not have noticed a little law by the name of SB 236 which was passed without so much as a whisper of complaint or fuss last month. If you happen to run a web based business … |
| | I have been a supporter of RAID for the longest time; after all it would be crazy not to like something that brings efficiency and protection to the data storage process. RAID has certainly provided both, but that was then and this is now, and it is time for RAID … |
| | Ever since I interviewed Bradley Horowitz, Head of Technology at Yahoo!, 18 months or so ago I have been keeping a keen eye on pretty much everything the company does in the search realm. Not least because Bradley is a man with a real vision for the future of social … |
| | Leading security vendor [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com"]Kaspersky Lab[/URL] has uncovered the first ever proof of concept virus designed with the sole intention of infecting the iPod media player. Like all proof of concept viruses though, Podloso poses no real world threat to users. For a start it requires a Linux installation, not on … |
| | The latest [URL="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/guide-to-greener-electronics"]Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics[/URL] has been published, and makes fascinating reading for anyone geek who really cares about the effect that technology has upon the environment. Greenpeace ranks the leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice with regards to eliminating harmful chemicals as … |
| | So the Sony PlayStation 3 has been available for a little over a week in Europe, and in that time it has officially become the second fastest selling games console ever in the UK. [URL="http://www.charttrack.co.uk/"]ChartTrack[/URL], an organisation that monitors such things, reports that the first two days of release saw …  |
| | Proposals for a virtual red light Internet district have been overturned for the third time during a contentious meeting of the [URL="http://www.icann.org"]Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers[/URL] (ICANN) in Portugal. Concluding business at the meeting, a resolution rejecting a proposal from the [URL="http://www.icmregistry.com/"]ICM Registry[/URL] to create an .xxx top … |
| | IT security specialist [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL] is warning anyone with a website about recently uncovered evidence that spammers are hacking into legitimate sites in order to sell drugs. Online pharmacy spam, be it under the Viagra or just general prescription drug banner, has become one of the most annoying and persistent forms … |
| | Wireless networking has, in my rather sadly predictable geeky opinion, made computing not only a whole lot more accessible but sexy as well. In fact, I might even go so far as to say that the social Internet service explosion would not have happened, or certainly not happened as quickly, … |
| | Web security company [URL="http://www.scansafe.com"]ScanSafe[/URL] has published its latest monthly Global Threat Report that looks at corporate usage of the web. The results should not be shocking as we all know that if you give someone free access to the Internet at work then they will abuse that access if at … |
| | Every now and then, as a journalist, a press release lands upon my virtual desk that stands out because it relates to ‘a good thing’ and one of them arrived today. In fact, it relates to a number of good things: [B]Good Thing Number One[/B] It raises awareness of what … |
| | In something of an unusual twist of late, [URL="http://www.google.com"]Google [/URL]would appear to be playing catch up to [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft [/URL]for once. The Redmond giants bought the market leader in the in-game advertising business, [URL="http://www.massiveincorporated.com/"]Massive Inc[/URL], last May for close on $200 million. Today Google has confirmed it has finalized the deal … |
| | It seems that Apple has got all the big boys of IT whipped up into a mobile phone frenzy with the huge interest that surrounded the recent announcement of the iPhone. Microsoft is rumored to be developing a cell phone version of the Zune MP3 player. And now as part … |
| | The MHW2040AC Parallel 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive has a capacity of just 40 GB, a rotational speed of 4,200 rpm and an 8Mb buffer size, so why is [URL="http://www.fujitsu.com/global/"]Fujitsu [/URL]making such a fuss about it? Perhaps it has something to do with the temperature tolerance, this thing will comfortable …  |
| | A number of users are reporting that the new Kaspersky AV component in the latest [URL="http://www.zonealarm.com"]ZoneAlarm [/URL]Security Suite 7 is broken. And broken in such a way as to leave your system unprotected while appearing to be fully functional. The problem manifests itself after a successful installation with the AV … |
| | [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/107043/alqaeda-plot-to-blow-up-uk-internet.html"]Reports[/URL] have come in over the weekend of a series of dawn raids by the Metropolitan Police on a number of terrorist suspects with Al-Qaeda connections in London. All the suspects have been arrested. The raids follow the seizure of computer files last year suggesting that the target of their … |
| | The Symantec State of Spam report is always something to look forward to, although it can often make depressing reading. Everyone is plagued by junk mail, filters are straining under the load, and spammers are managing to stay on top of their evil trade by employing cunning new techniques to … |
| | New research from [URL="http://answers.vizu.com/"]Vizu Answers[/URL] and [URL="http://adage.com/"]Ad Age[/URL] suggests that when it comes to blog posting discovery, the majority of readers use links from other blogs to arrive there. The fact that the figure is as high as 67.3 percent is slightly surprising, given the amount of people that use … |
| | Remember [URL="http://answers.google.com"]Google Answers[/URL]? Anyone? No, didn’t think so, as it was hardly the most popular service that Google ever provided. Indeed, you can probably count the number of services that Google has launched and then closed on the fingers of one hand, and possibly even one finger. Google Answers launched … |
| | Well, what a weekend that has been. Ever since the reports started emerging online of a brute force attack on the Vista activation code using a modified version of the original software license manager script file I have been, shall we say, dubious as to the authenticity of the claim. … |
| | [URL="http://onecare.live.com"]Microsoft Windows Live OneCare[/URL] was already struggling in the credibility stakes after failing to pass the Virus Bulletin VB100 certification tests as I reported [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1295.html"]here[/URL] last month. Talk about kicking a wounded animal, now the [URL="http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_02.php"]results [/URL]of the latest, and much respected, [URL="http://www.av-comparatives.org/ tests"]av-comparatives[/URL] are in, and do no make … |
| | During the course of this week there have been numerous reports floating around, mainly online and mainly pretty devoid of any real substance, claiming that the popular anonymous browsing solution [URL="http://tor.eff.org/"]Tor[/URL] has been cracked. In fact, what these reports should have been reporting is the fact that researchers from the … |
| | Face it, the PDA is dying if not dead, killed off by the evolution of the cellphone into smartphone. This is no great shame, because it means you now have a smaller device in your pocket that does twice as much as either a cellphone or PDA on its own. … |
| | Marc Andreessen may not have actually been knighted for his contributions towards making the web what it is today, but if he were British then I am sure Helen Mirren would have bestowed that honor upon him alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Not that a lack of a knighthood is stopping … |
| | The trouble with asking your customers what they want is sometimes they tell you and it is not what you were expecting to hear. Case in point, [URL="http://www.dell.com"]Dell[/URL] requesting just such feedback 10 days ago and being inundated with thousands of customers and, one assumes more importantly, potential customers yelling …  |
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