Stories about: IT Matters

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    The internet is no longer (just) for porn 18/09/2008 14:35:00

    Social networking sites are now more popular than pornography, according to recent research.
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    Google to get aggressive with Apps suite 06/08/2008 08:19:54

    Google plans to aggressively add new applications and capabilities to its Web-hosted Apps software suite for businesses, and will likely leave the price unchanged as it builds out the service, a company official said Tuesday.
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    Security experts knock Apple for not patching DNS bug 29/07/2008 08:23:40

    Apple has not yet patched a critical Domain Name System (DNS) bug in its Mac OS X operating system, analysts and security researchers noted today as some criticized the company for dragging its feet.
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    RSA - Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers 10/04/2008 07:20:21

    Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said Wednesday as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam.
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    Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft 13/03/2008 09:43:59

    Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for the Apache Web server. Zemlin has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences including Gartner's Open Source Conference and Linux World.
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    Blockbuster year for mobile phones 28/02/2008 08:08:34

    With more than 1 billion phones sold globally for the first time, 2007 was a banner year for mobile phone sales. As sales continue to grow, the big questions this year are whether global market leader Nokia can expand in North America, and whether Motorola can stop its slide.
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    20% of Facebook users are IDiots 17/08/2007 09:27:10

    Not content with destroying their careers and social lives in the relentless pursuit of Zombie points, millions of users of social-networking giant Facebook are doling out personal data to strangers. Needless to say, this poses something of an identity fraud risk.
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    Stanford applies a clean slate to the Internet 27/03/2007 10:16:58

    Nobody's going to tear down the Internet and rebuild it from scratch, but academics at Stanford University are imagining what the new blueprint would look like if they did and they hope their work will lead to an Internet that works better in 20 years than it does today. Tim Greene talked to the leader of the effort, Associate Professor Nick McKeown, about how the project is going.
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    Sony LBT-ZX10D 13/10/2006 13:58:54

    We were a little mystified when Sony's latest Hi-Fi/Home Theatre system turned up at our offices. Sony has named the device the 'LBT-ZX10D Compact Hi-Fi Stereo System', which is a little baffling, as this is one of the largest home theatre/stereo systems we have ever seen. The main unit alone is the size of some televisions and the speakers weigh 10kg each. However if you can handle the rather bulky design and slightly gaudy aesthetic, this is a solid sounding home theatre package that has a wide variety of features.
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    How to install another hard disk 17/04/2003 09:24:05

    My desktop machine has been cramped for space for at least a year. I've had to shuffle games, data, applications and digital images on and off the system as I needed them. There just wasn't enough available space on the two existing drives, and it was past time to do something about it. That's what I'm writing about this week: adding a new hard drive to your existing Linux system.
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    Good news for IT: the buyer is in charge 06/10/1998 21:49:16

    Good news for IT: the buyer is in charge
 
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