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Latest News

  • Twitter site goes down

    We apologize for the interruption in service.The glitch pushed up Twitter's downtime this month to 41 minutes, according to Pingdom, a site that measures reliability of access to Web sites.That's almost double the downtime recorded during March…
  • IBM: Software bugs fall, but hackers target PDF, Flash, ActiveX

    In 2009, the team recorded 6,601 new vulnerabilities, which is 11 percent less than in 2008.But IBM said the number of vulnerability disclosures for document readers, editors and multimedia applications rose by 50 percent.
  • NASA solar observatory to probe Sun

    To gather data from SDOs instruments, NASA has set up a pair of dedicated radio antennas near Las Cruces, New Mexico.The orbit will also let high resolution images be recorded every three quarters of a second, producing enough data to fill a…
  • World IT spending to grow in 2010, says IDC

    The engine of global industry growth in 2010 will be in emerging markets, in particular China and India, where IT spending will recover much more quickly.Overall, IDC forecasts that worldwide IT spending will reach $1.48 trillion in 2010, still…
  • Congress hacked near Obama speech

    The attacks came around the same time as Obama gave his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night.The Red Eye Crew has defaced thousands of websites, and some of the attacks have been recorded by Zone-H, a website that keep tracks of…
  • Intel loses processor market share to AMD

    AMD's market share was 19.4 percent during the fourth quarter, increasing from 17.7 percent the previous year.AMD recorded major gains in the first quarter of 2009 when shipment of Intel processors like Atom plummeted, said Shane Rau, director of…

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Wipe out the last 20 years of recorded history, because most of it was stored digitally.We'd feel it first in the economy and our financial institutions, where everything is digital. What if instead of a mere data breach, our financial institutions…
  • Snow Leopard vs Windows 7

    Naturally, I recorded these times with no password required. Windows 7 is a worthy rival, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the better operating system by a whisker for discriminating professionals I have a confession: I'm a switcher.
  • Inside Nokia's mobile testing lab

    Nearby computers measured and recorded what pressure was applied, bending the window to the point of breakage, which sounded like a quick 'pop'.The precisely applied pressure on the window is like "an elephant wearing a stiletto standing on a…
  • Shopping for BlackBerry applications

    The time you spent on the call or reading or composing the e-mail is recorded, and you can even set your billing rate for each contract or client. Although I'm a big BlackBerry fan, I found the BlackBerry App World to be just horrible on many fronts.
  • Borland - will the name survive?

    Last year it recorded a net loss of $216 million on sales of just $172 million. Borland used to be one of the major names in software - but how times change. This week's acquisition by Micro Focus means that that the Borland name has an uncertain…
  • Skype wants to do business

    Robin says that it won't compromise on voice encryption, for instance, meaning that calls can't easily be recorded within the network. The free-VoIP giant recasts itself as "unified communications made simple" - but how much is it willing to…
 

How-Tos

  • How to turn your PC into a media centre

    What's more, the PC can do things that no cable box can, streaming Netflix movies, playing your entire music and photo libraries, burning recorded TV shows to DVD, and much more. What's more, the PC can do things that no cable box can, streaming…
  • How to convert your vinyl records to MP3

    We've recorded the 12in version of Chain Reaction' by Diana Ross. Here, well show you how to use your PC to bring them back to life. Many modern PCs have sound cards that are capable of recording music from an external music system.
  • How to avoid a tech support nightmare

    The company never did.When I first contacted Netgear, a spokeswoman asked to give the company time to investigate the incident and listen to a tape of the conversation (calls to tech support are routinely recorded).
  • Readers' favourite free network tools

    MRTG requires a Web server, and default displays give one day, one week and one year statistics.The methodology is simple: poll network devices every five minutes via SNMP for the desired variable(s) and then present data via a graph in a Web page…
  • Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode

    The test script was run on the destination computer so that transactions would be initiated and recorded by the mains-powered computer.The destination in all test cases was a Dell 4500 desktop upgraded with a PCI gigabit Ethernet adapter and…
  • Case Study: Data loss prevention takes a catch

    After a couple of days, no hits were recorded on that rule, but something else popped up that was extremely alarming. A new DLP tool paid for itself within days for this network security manager. Our intrusion-detection sensors give us about 40…

Reviews

  • HP Mini 210 review

    This configuration recorded a fractionally better time in our iTunes MP3 encoding test (7min 42sec) than the Toshiba NB300 (7min 46sec) but a slower time in Blender 3D (6min 56sec compared to 6min 48sec).
  • Buffalo DriveStation HD-UX3 review

    Here we recorded a read speed peak of 110MB/s, with a 104.9MB/s average. Writing speed tailed only slightly, at an average of 87.4MB/s.Moving to a more up-to-date machine, we pressganged the Chillblast Fusion Goliath, which has an Asus motherboard…
  • Panasonic HDC-HS60 review

    The camcorder is also capable of taking 5-megapixel stills via interpolation.To test the Panasonic HDC-HS60's video performance, we recorded footage in a variety of settings and then connected the camera to a Pioneer KURO PDP-C509A TV via HDMI.
  • Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z review

    In Adobe Photoshop, it took 415sec to complete a workload, which is only 16sec slower than what a pre-production A70z running a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB of DDR3 RAM recorded. In our WorldBench 6 benchmark suite the PC recorded fast times in all…
  • MSI Wind Millions Special Edition U135 review

    In the dedicated CPU tests - Blender 3D rendering and iTunes MP3 encoding - the Wind U135 recorded 6min 57sec and 7min 50sec, which is an efficient result compared to many other netbooks we have seen.The 250GB hard drive recorded an average…
  • iStorage diskGenie review

    For a single home user, a single Admin passcode alone should be sufficient for easy and secure use.In our performance tests, the iStorage diskGenie recorded an average read speed up to 29MB/s, and write speeds up to 12MB/s.

White Papers

  • Virtualisation brings Kings College academics together

    Research was carried out by people working in archives and other repositories all around the country and vast amounts of data were recorded, allowing us to build an enormously detailed resource . But the virtual grid at Kings College could provide…
  • Exploiting the Growing Content Value Chain

    At present, 50% of Orange France 3G customers use video, and BSkyB recorded 5 million instances of TV access during the first 3 months of launching its mobile TV service. The Capgemini think big, start small integration approach reduces your…
  • ProCurve Networking by HP

    In these devices, elementary particles are accelerated to tremendously high energies and then smashed together.These collisions, recorded by particle detectors, give a glimpse of matter, as it was, moments after the Big Bang.
  • Mindreef SOAPscope Server

    SOAPscope Server users collaborate by creating and sharing workspaces that contain Web services contracts, messages, recorded actions, simulated operations, and descriptive notes. Mindreef SOAPscope Server is the industry's only solution for…
  • Convergence Takes Hold In The Enterprise

    Nearly half of senior executives in a global survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit for AT&T say that IP convergence has been implemented in all or most of their business, nearly double the number recorded in the same 2005 survey.
 
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