Archive for January, 2009
This internet may harm your computer
Google's main search engine is currently identifying every site on the web as malware, according to reports in both the US and the UK.…
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Kindle spurs Amazon to solid quarter
CRM safe from spending cuts
HTC S740
Google Chocolate Factory leaks (more) GDrive talk
Oompa Loompa 'monitors' your clicks
More evidence has surfaced that Oompa Loompas inside the Google Chocolate Factory are hard at work on something called the GDrive.…
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Silverlight 3 and 4 to ‘open up new areas’ – Microsoft
Dig it, man
The next two releases of Silverlight will take Microsoft's media player in completely new directions, the technical executive in charge has promised.…
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Windows 7 UAC shutoff ‘bug’ leaves Microsoft unmoved
Insecure by design? s
Security researchers have unearthed a potentially serious flaw in User Account Control (UAC) features in Windows 7. Microsoft is aware of the issue but is currently unconvinced it needs to make changes to the pre-release code.…
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Emergency passport system to go ahead
Tom Young, Computing, Friday 30 January 2009 at 17:55:00 Faster issue and more secure documents are key drivers The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is introducing a new system that will issue more secure emergency travel documents. The system – which will be rolled out from the second half of this year – will allow officials at 200 overseas stations to issue the documents within a matter of hours. Currently the FCO issues 10,000 such documents a year to people who have lost their passports, but the process is likely to take weeks rather than...Read More »
Humyo cloud disappears from afternoon sky
Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to no work we go
Europe's largest online storage provider, Humyo, has been offline all afternoon due to a multi-terabyte database rebuild.…
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White Space lobby leaps to Europe
What's good for the septics...
Having secured FCC approval for the use of cognitive radios in White Space on the American side of the pond, a lobbying consortium has jumped the Atlantic to try their luck with European regulators.…
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