IT News
Mon, 09/11/2009 - 15:00 | David
The first iPhone worm has been created, which is now spreading in the wild.
So far confined to Australia, security firm Sophos said that the ‘Ikee’ worm spreads into jailbroken phones, changing the lock screen wallpaper to an image of pop star Rick Astley with the message “Ikee is never going to give you up.”
Fri, 06/11/2009 - 10:27 | David
Search giant Google is coming clean over the amount of personal data it holds on its users.
Dubbed Google Dashboard, the service allows users to log in and find all the personal information held about them in Google's myriad applications, including Gmail, YouTube, Blogger and several more.
Thu, 29/10/2009 - 11:44 | David
Social networking in the workplace is costing British businesses millions a day in lost productivity.
So claims new research from IT company Morse, which surveyed more than 1,000 employees, 57 per cent of which admitted to using social networking services like Facebook and Twitter for personal use during the working day.
Wed, 28/10/2009 - 18:28 | David
Mobile data traffic is set to grow 25-fold by 2012, stretching the mobile networks to their very limits.
Mobile industry analysts Informa claim that mobile broadband networks are already beginning to sag under the strain in major cities. "The networks in developed markets in the UK and the US are starting to saturate," Informa analyst Dimitris Mavrakis has announced. "We see a lot of bottlenecks in data-centric areas such as London and New York."
Fri, 23/10/2009 - 17:19 | David
Thousands of work computers infected with trojans could be a ticking timebomb, according to security researchers.
The RSA Conference in London this week highlighted how criminals had already targeted computers in business networks, thanks to laptops and desktops with trojan infections like Sinowal and Zeus.
Fri, 23/10/2009 - 17:16 | David
Enterprises have been too slow to react to the significant shift in the ways that criminals are attacking them, according to a security researcher.
Michael Sutton, head of cloud security provider Zscaler, said at RSA Conference that the types of ways criminals were hitting businesses had changed.
Fri, 23/10/2009 - 17:11 | David
The launch of the Firefox 3.6 beta has been delayed once more, as Mozilla struggles to adapt the browser for Windows 7.
The Firefox 3.6 beta was due to arrive yesterday, to coincide with the launch of Windows 7. However, problems with Microsoft's latest and greatest appear to be holding up the browser.
Thu, 22/10/2009 - 06:55 | David
Windows 7 has become the biggest grossing pre-order product ever at Amazon.co.uk, according to the online retailer.
Amazon was among the select few retailers that began selling Windows 7 on pre-order back in July, offering the Home Premium version for as little as £45.
It now claims the operating system has racked up more pre-order sales than other big hitters, such as the Harry Potter novels and the Nintendo Wii.
Tue, 20/10/2009 - 06:29 | David
Microsoft has revealed that Office and SharePoint 2010 will hit public beta in November.
"The public beta will open November. We don't have a specific date, we'll be announcing that much closer to the launch, but we're on track to deliver [Office and Sharepoint 2010] in the first half of 2010," Steve Marsh, SharePoint's UK Product Manager said.
Tue, 20/10/2009 - 06:26 | David
If elected, the Conservatives would cut plans to tax phone lines 50 pence a month to pay for a superfast broadband rollout.
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Financial Times that the tax, proposed as part of the government’s Digital Britain plans, would be scrapped “as soon as possible.”
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