10 March 2010, 3:42 pm
10-year-old shows her age
Mozilla is updating its open source license after more than 10 years of use.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
10 March 2010, 3:23 pm
One quarter of C&C channels vanish
At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world's most nefarious cyber operations.â...
10 March 2010, 12:04 pm
Gamers watch and wait
Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
10 March 2010, 11:44 am
App-V virtual embrace
Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
10 March 2010, 11:20 am
Seven weeks and counting
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has reiterated that the company is currently in negotiations with the Chinese government over its future in the country - despite the Chinese government's claims to the contrary - and he expects some s...
10 March 2010, 9:55 am
Phone vid traffic up '160%'
Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 9:02 am
Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too
LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.…
10 March 2010, 8:24 am
Accelerators speed up cluster work
InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the produ...
10 March 2010, 8:13 am
Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner
The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the...
10 March 2010, 8:10 am
Account still restricted
"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…Case Study:...
10 March 2010, 7:28 am
'Sferic' zap-sniff tech for future subterranean warriors
News has emerged of a secret US military programme intended to let troops navigate about inside huge underground enemy tunnel complexes by measuring energy pulses given off by lightning bolts.â...
10 March 2010, 7:26 am
My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire
Former Sun Microsystems boss Jonathan Schwartz has claimed that Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to sue the server and software maker in 2003.…What is your recession sales strategy?
10 March 2010, 7:12 am
Nid wyf yn deall gair rydych chi'n dweud
Almost 200 Welsh language programmes broadcast by S4C last month attracted precisely zero viewers, leaked audience figures show.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
10 March 2010, 7:04 am
Don't need no good advice
The Ministry of Justice reduced its consultancy spending from £20.7m in 2007-08 to £10.5m in 2008-09, despite the failure of other departments to meet government cost-cutting targets.…
10 March 2010, 6:34 am
Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing
In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs and a copy of Monsters vs Aliens, the company anno...
10 March 2010, 6:07 am
Code-only entry ended
Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer trial to all of the manufacturers' Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes' red buttons.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 5:44 am
Advent students still waiting for a saviour
Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company.…
10 March 2010, 5:29 am
£1m spent on advertising, no public relations
The government still seems to be shying away from spending too much money advertising its ID card and National ID Register schemes.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
10 March 2010, 5:26 am
Cruises 12 miles up on pair of Ford car engines
Global arms'n'aerospace behemoth Boeing says it will now begin work in earnest on its "Phantom Eye" high-altitude hydrogen spy drone, powered by a pair of modified Ford car engines.…What is your reces...
10 March 2010, 5:21 am
Online banking losses up though
A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
10 March 2010, 5:20 am
SDK lands with a bump
Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.…What is your recession sales strategy?
10 March 2010, 5:02 am
Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware
Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, an...
10 March 2010, 4:46 am
Every twt.tl bit helps
Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 4:16 am
Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player
Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 4:01 am
Routing like it's 1949
Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
10 March 2010, 3:53 am
Well done chaps, no damage to society at all
The minister responsible for counter-terrorism has said that despite "some very nasty bastards out there who aim to do us harm", government security initiatives have made the UK safer from attacks in recen...
10 March 2010, 3:49 am
Trick-cyclist blasts Googleplex massage parlour
It's official. Proper actual science* has confirmed that the young Westerners of Generation Y (people now in their 20s) are idle, workshy loafers by comparison to their elders. They are also think that...
10 March 2010, 3:44 am
Corporate crusaders for free speech unite
Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legolan...
10 March 2010, 3:39 am
Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'
A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.…The power of collaboration within unified...
10 March 2010, 3:24 am
Sector inspector
Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
10 March 2010, 2:50 am
WebOs goes native
Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.…What is your recession sales strategy?
10 March 2010, 2:34 am
Connect-your-own-storage DVR too
Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It's also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make it a doddle to transfer taped programmes to a PC.â€...
10 March 2010, 2:28 am
Wife is 100% free range and foie gras fed
A New York chef is offering samples of cheese made from his wife's breast milk with the promise that it's "100 per cent organic, free range and foie gras fed".…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 1:55 am
Warns of more bumps ahead
Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
10 March 2010, 1:29 am
Kiss and don't tell
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 1:11 am
Turn left here and jump that red light
Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
10 March 2010, 12:02 am
Hard to resist
Review The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it’s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Androi...
9 March 2010, 11:02 pm
Dual-node MS2 cluster
Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.…What is your recession sales strategy?
9 March 2010, 11:02 pm
Feds cuff JihadJane
A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal i...
9 March 2010, 10:02 pm
The non-iPad iPad clone
The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…What is your recession sales strategy?
9 March 2010, 10:02 pm
Doggies digitized for your protection
Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pon...
9 March 2010, 9:57 pm
One stop Google bolt-on shop
The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.…The power of collaboration within unified communication...
9 March 2010, 5:38 pm
Is it real? Or is it Skytap?
Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies...
9 March 2010, 3:17 pm
Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…Offloading m...
9 March 2010, 1:18 pm
Reliability boost roadmap
Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.…The power of collaboration within unifi...
9 March 2010, 12:54 pm
The first rule of iPhone Club is...
In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
9 March 2010, 12:33 pm
The new Microsoft
Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
9 March 2010, 11:45 am
322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here
How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
9 March 2010, 11:24 am
Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine
Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.…Web threats: Why...
9 March 2010, 11:08 am
IE 6 and 7 users targeted
Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud