Cyberguardians

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 09:05:00

Take-down notices

APPLE IS USING its legal muscle to prevent competitors from using its Itunes digital juke box. Currently, the Itunes store accounts for four out of five songs sold on the internet in the United States and it seems that Apple wants to keep it that way....

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 08:41:00

Raising $30,000 a day

PROTESTS against the Australian government's plans to censor the Internet are starting to get serious financial backing. Whinging group GetUp has raised over $30,000 in less than a day to support their fight against the Government....

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 08:55:00

Koobface infection jumps from MySpace

VIRUS WRITERS have come up with malware that is targeted uniquely at the social notworking site Facebook. "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers....

Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 08:10:00

First INQpressions Fast stuff, how much speed up?

Product Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 Core i7 kit Web site www.kingston.com RIGHT AFTER the Core i7 launch, with its combination of a new three-channel configuration and memory voltage limitations, memory vendors started coming out with newly optimised "lower voltage yet decent speed 3-channel DDR3 memory kits for the new kid on...

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 08:11:00

Took a while but it is ready

CLEARWIRE announced it has completed the transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their next-generation wireless Internet businesses. According to a press release, the new outfit will keep the Clearwire name and expects to start building the first nationwide 4G mobile broadband network any day now....

Nick Farrell the Inquirer, Friday 5 December 2008. 07:44:00

He is a Zune user

APPLE FANBOYS are in a hysterical lather over the news that president elect Barak Obama used a Zune instead of one of Steve Job's approved fruit-themed toys. The US's first techie president was seen using a Zune at the gym by hack Neal Santos who duly reported it in his...

Nebojsa Novakovic the Inquirer, Thursday 4 December 2008. 19:16:00

Fast stuff, how much speed up?

Product Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 Core i7 kit Web site www.kingston.com RIGHT AFTER the Core i7 launch, with its combination of a new threesome channel configuration and memory voltage limitations, memory vendors started coming out with newly optimised "lower voltage yet decent speed " 3-channel DDR3 memory kits for the new...

Charlie Demerjian the Inquirer, Thursday 4 December 2008. 23:40:00

Memowatch Some divisions coughing up for the holidays

HP WORKERS MAY be getting the shaft for Christmas, but luckily, the giving doesn't end there. The shades of the stupidity started under Carly are now bubbling back up. When we posted the heart-felt holiday cheer of Ann Livermore, little did we know the employees would rally around her....

Paul Taylor the Inquirer, Thursday 4 December 2008. 23:02:00

Spices up the open sauce

THE LAUNCH of the Nokia N97 blanked out this particular bit of info this week: Nokia has hoovered up the remaining bits of Symbian, in its attempt to free Symbian into the open-source development community (sort of)....

Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 4 December 2008. 16:45:00

Sky's the limit

BSKYB IS STEPPING it up a notch with its new online video service which will offer popular channels with cheaper subscription packages than the current satellite TV packages Sky offers. Sky Player TV launches today offering surfers a choice of three packages ranging from £15 to £34 a month....