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  • 05 December 2007

  • News: Ukrainian botnet blamed for 'Ron Paul spam'

    Researchers have shut down a network of PCs responsible for sending out 200 million spam messages, claiming to support US presidential candidate Ron Paul last month.

  • News: AMD and Intel take heat out of price war

    Intel and AMD have backed off in their long and bloody price war. As a consequence, a struggling AMD may be getting a little breathing room.

  • News: Slashdot for network engineers launches

    Three months ago David Mackey, a 23-year-old network engineer, added a social-bookmarking site called Informed Networker to the ranks of Slashdot, Digg, Mixx, Propeller, StumbleUpon and dozens of other news aggregation site.

  • News: Microsoft loosens WGA for Vista SP1

    Vista's first service pack will overhaul the operating system's automatic antipiracy checks and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system, Microsoft has revealed

  • News: Mobile phone firm in trouble over Sikh joke SMS

    Indian police are taking action against Anil Ambani, chairman of large Indian telecommunications service provider Reliance Communications. The action happened after Reliance Communications' mobile network circulated a joke that offended the Sikh community.

  • 04 December 2007

  • Samsung launches S760 and S860 budget cameras

    Samsung is boosting the depth of its entrylevel digital camera line-up with two new colourful models. The Samsung S760 is a 7Mp (megapixel) compact camera with a 3x optical zoom and a 2.4in LCD display. It will go onsale in January 2008 with a recommended retaial price of £80 including VAT.

  • Venturer SHD7100 HD-DVD player

    Chinese consumer electronics maker Venturer is set to sell a standalone HD-DVD player offering 1080p high-definition video playback – undercutting the £200 Toshiba HD-DVD player announced in September.

  • News: Nokia phones to get free music service

    Nokia will launch a new service next year that allows people who buy certain Nokia phones to download music for free for a year after they purchase the device.

  • News: Revolutionary AV testing guidelines planned

    Consumers should have more accurate information with which to compare security software suites under a new set of software testing guidelines to be finalised early next year.

  • Opinion: How to repair an unbootable XP or Vista PC

    Q. How do I prepare an emergency boot disc so I'm ready in case Windows becomes unbootable?

  • News: Phoenix launches Advanced System Optimizer 2.0

    After Phoenix Software today signed an agreement with Systweak to distribute Systweak's Systems Utilities software throughout the UK, Advanced System Optimizer 2.0 and Advanced Email Utilities are now available.

  • News: Metallica to debut track as game download

    Rock group Metallica could premier their new single as a playable Rock Band download, according to MTV Games. "There are a couple of things we've committed to, one of them with Metallica for example," said MTV's Paul DeGooyer to the Rocky Mountain News. "They've reserved the right to give us their first single from their new album for the game."

  • News: UK now receives 20bn spam emails per day

    Roughly one sixth of global spam is sent to inboxes, according to filtering company IronPort, meaning that each business inbox now receives between 100 and 1,000 spam emails per day.

  • News: Firefox users urged to install new patch

    As expected, Mozilla has pushed out another Firefox update - version 2.0.0.11 - to fix a new bug that caused problems when the browser was rendering 'canvas' HTML elements. The newest update comes just days after Mozilla released Firefox version 2.0.0.10, the first time the open-source browser has been updated in the same week.

  • News: Intel & AMD end PC processor price war

    Intel and AMD are calling an end to the PC processor price war and focusing on features and functionality instead, according to a study released by iSuppli.

  • News: Sony admits PS3 failed in 2007

    Sony has admitted that sales of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console failed to match its expectations this year, but stressed this is "hardly cause for panic".

  • News: Microsoft warns of dangerous Windows flaw

    A flaw in the way Windows looks up other computers on the internet has resurfaced and could expose some customers to online attacks, according to Microsoft.

  • News: eBay & Yahoo partner on online auctions

    EBay and Yahoo Japan have announced an online auction partnership designed to make it easier for their respective users to buy goods available on each other's sites.

  • 03 December 2007

  • News: Creative: no 32GB Zen for Europe

    Fans of audio specialist and MP3 player maker Creative have spent the past week salivating at the thought of a 32GB flash memory-based music and video player launching in Europe. But according to a spokesman for Creative, a 32GB Zen player “is not even on the roadmap”.

  • News: Flat-screen plasma and LCD TV buying guide

    If you're not planning to hang your TV on the wall, is a flat-panel the best way to go? And which are better: plasma or LCD flat-screen TVs? Here's what you need to know before you buy.

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