RickRolling iPhone Worm Pops Up Down Under

An Australian student has created the first ever iPhone worm - a "rickroller" that puts an image of singer Rick…

15 years ago

UK Not Affected By Mass Nokia Charger Recall

The Finnish phone giant is recalling 14 million Chinese-made phone chargers that might give an electric shock - British users…

15 years ago

UK Tightens Tech Recycling – While Toxic Waste Leaks To Africa

In the same week that the UK updated its electronics recycling laws, a Nigerian national has been questioned by police…

15 years ago

Companies Still Backward On Flexible Working Says Collaboration Specialist

You don't have to be locked in a cubicle for 60 hours a week to complete your technological work or…

15 years ago

eBay Settles Skype Lawsuit

eBay settles lawsuits with Joltid and Joost in a £1.13b deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed…

15 years ago

Green Start-Up Will Drill Into Energy Efficiency and Performance

Viridity is developing software designed to give IT administrators high visibility into the utilisation and energy consumption of their IT…

15 years ago

Ex-MySQL Boss Says EC Would Be Wrong To Oppose Sun Deal

Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says "there's no rational argument" for preventing Oracle from acquiring all of Sun

15 years ago

IBM Developing Low-Emission Data Centres

IBM is working to deliver technology that it claims could lead to zero direct emission data centres, says an IBM…

15 years ago

Three Critical Fixes For Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday will include six security bulletins, three of which are rated 'critical'

15 years ago

Opposition Mounts To Cisco’s Tandberg Bid

Cisco's bid for video conferencing rival Tandberg hangs in the balance as opposition to the deal grows

15 years ago

IT Managers Still Believe Outsourcing Poses Security Risk

The majority of large UK corporates still believe that outsourced systems are less secure than in-house alternatives

15 years ago

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Due Next Week

Mozilla's open source competitor to Microsoft Outlook is to be updated with a new version of Thunderbird expected next week

15 years ago

Enterprises Fear SaaS Will Create Software Licensing Issues

Most UK businesses are concerned about introducing virtualisation, cloud computing and SaaS into their organisations over fears of complex licensing…

15 years ago

Hands On: Nokia N900 – A Good Cheap Option?

Nokia may have started from the idea of a pocket computer, but this is a geek-friendly Linux smartphone that straddles…

15 years ago

EC To Object To Oracle’s Sun Acquisition, Say Reports

The EC is likely to make a formal objection to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, because of the inclusion of…

15 years ago

Microsoft Windows 7 Beats Early Vista Sales by 200 Percent

Boxed Windows 7 sales were three times as high as those of Vista during the products' first few days of…

15 years ago

Industry Must Tackle IPv4 Depletion

The IT industry has ignored the availability of IPv6 addresses for too long at the risk of adding unnecessary risk…

15 years ago

US to Get Data Breach Notification Laws

Commerce agencies in the US will have to notify anyone whose personal information may have been accessed in a breach,…

15 years ago

Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina To Run For Senate

Carly Fiorina, the former boss of HP, will stand for Senate election - while the ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman plans…

15 years ago

Spammers And Botnets Change Tactics

Internet villains are learning from their mistakes, and now they can come back quickly even when their ISPs are shut…

15 years ago

Good Reviews Pitch Motorola Droid Into Smartphone War

The Motorola Droid might not be an iPhone killer, but it is a contender in a contest which will also…

15 years ago

Refinement For BlackBerry Bold 9700

The new Bold 9700 smartphone is both smaller and sleeker than the original, but may lack the radical edge that…

15 years ago

Tech and Internet Use Not Isolating People

The idea that the Internet is responsible for a lack of socialisation and the increasing isolation of people has been…

15 years ago

Neon Updates Mainframe Migration Tool

Neon Enterprise Software has upgraded its tool that allows workloads running on IBM Mainframe to be moved to a cheaper…

15 years ago

McAfee Looks To SMEs With Web And Email Appliance

McAfee has released a new version of its email and web security appliance, aimed at the cost concious SMBs

15 years ago

Backup Tapes Go Missing From Government Agency

Another government agency suffers a data loss scandal, after the UK's Rural Payments Agency loses tapes containing payment and banking…

15 years ago

Security Researchers Uncover SSL Vulnerability

Tech companies are rushing to patch the SSL security protocol following the discovery of a potentially "devastating" flaw

15 years ago

Microsoft Takes Teachers To Brazil

Amid calls from local authorities to use open source software and cut costs, Microsoft is holding a teachers' conference in…

15 years ago

EC Compromise Allows Mandelson Net Cut-Off Plan

The Fifth Of November exploded activists' hopes that an EU law would prevent Lord Mandelson's plans to force the cut-off…

15 years ago

Housing Workforce To Use Fibre For Mobile Working

A Yorkshire housing association has gone all high tech after enabling mobile working for tradespeople employed on its properties, thanks…

15 years ago