Archive | October, 2010

We all know that the internet can be a great place, but as with all things in life it has [...]

Normally, you wouldn’t expect the gaming issue to be a big item in Facebook’s to-do list. But with about 200 million people playing games on a monthly basis, this perception is wrong.

Ok technically speaking Sony have made a profit before, but haven’t managed to make one in gaming in years! Ever since the [...]

Thanks to sales of it’s new flagship products, Windows 7 and Office 2010, Microsoft has released Q1 sales figures for [...]

The net value to the UK economy of the Internet stands at more than £100bn a year according to research [...]

Finally, the cloud should be “client-aware,” which means that the cloud API must be device aware, taking into account whether a user is on a phone or on a laptop. Communication between the players will be key in achieving the initiative’s goals of increased efficiency and decreased IT spending.

Nowadays it seems like everyones online, your mum,dad, brother,sister,auntie, uncle and sometimes even your grandparents. But have you ever wondered [...]

Photonics energy is the way forward. Indeed scientists at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs claim that optical transmission gear consumes less power by a factor of 10 than other network technologies such as cellular base stations and packet routers.

Harckers, security researchers at the ToorCon security conference in San Diego showed how easy it can be to poke holes [...]

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office is to investigate search giant Google over information it gathered from wi-fi networks via it’s [...]

A phishing site tries to elicit personal information from a victim, usually this done by tricking the visitor to the site into believing that the page they’ve landed on is legitimate.

Many PC’s come with pre-installed software from manufacturers, most of it is bloatware and useless to the majority of users. A [...]

How did Apple do? Well is had a small amount of growth; their market share grew from 17.0 to 18.3 percent over the year. BlackBerry dropped about as much as Nokia’s. It fell to 16.1 from 19.6 percent; RIM shipped 12.3 million devices during the quarter.

If enough people resist, the “Hurt Locker” producers will face a similar quandary of having to pay high attorney fees in order to secure a settlement that may or may not come; or may not have any recoverable value.