Thursday 8th January 2009 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
Wi-Fi wherever
CES Got a 3G USB modem? Want to share the link? Netgear today launched a wireless router designed to tie an on-the-go Wi-Fi hotspot to the internet over an HSDPA back link.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
The telltale cursor
A British IT admin was ordered to pay more than £3,000 and given a three-months jail sentence after being accused of hacking into his former employer's computer system so he could install spyware and delete emails.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
CFIUS OKs AMD-ATIC TFC
AMD's Abu Dhabi-funded manufacturing spin-off has been rubberstamped by the US Treasury Department.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Remember him as he was
VMware's landed its second ex-Microsoft executive at the top, this time the individual who drove Redmond's developer outreach in the glory days of the 1990s.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
IBM Power/AIX machines get 64-bit support - finally
Some software development projects take a long time to complete, and others seem to take an eternity. So it is, it seems, for 64-bit support for IBM's COBOL compiler for its own AIX Unix variant running on Power-based servers.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
If only people will make more phone calls
Verizon's head of device certification expects to see rivals to Amazon's Kindle launching on Verizon's network during 2009, once he has time to certify them.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
Complains to EC over IPCom
Nokia has lodged a complaint with the European Commission, claiming that IPCom is abusing mobile patents originally owned by Bosch that are already the subject of legal action in the UK and Germany.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Networking, Comms, Wireless & Mobile | No Comments »
Watch out, iPhone...
After denying British punters a touch screen Tube in their Christmas stockings, Nokia has announced that the much-hyped phone will launch in Blighty this month.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Security | No Comments »
The pursuit of 'happiness'
Miscreants broke into Twitter's admin system on Sunday night using a simple password guessing hack, it has emerged.…
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Wednesday 7th January 2009 | Posted in Software & Applications | No Comments »
It's for your own good
Microsoft will cushion you from the Internet Explorer 8 standards mess with software to prevent automatic download of its next browser to your machine.…
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