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Apple iPhone vulnerability 'as bad as it gets'

By Asavin Wattanajantra, July 3, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Charlie Miller, well known in the security world for hacking Apple's Safari browser in seconds, has found a new vulnerability in the iPhone that security vendor F-Secure has described as "bad as it..

Download IE8 or children die of hunger

By Benny Har-Even, July 3, 2009 at 12:24 pm

I have to say that I’m amazed and slightly appalled by the lengths Microsoft is going to get people to use Internet Explorer 8. Firstly, it’s claiming that without it, woman are in danger of throwing..

Is Facebook racist?

By Nicole Kobie, July 2, 2009 at 3:25 pm

A Microsoft researcher has claimed that MySpace has become a "digital ghetto," after white people abandoned it in favour of the more elite-seeming, culturally-superior Facebook. Speaking at a conference in New York, Danah Boyd..

Windows 7 gets a (sort of) 70 program limit

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe, July 1, 2009 at 7:51 am

I found an interesting Windows 7 bug today. The other day I took my workhorse Windows Vista desktop machine over to Windows 7. It was a move that was somewhat overdue - but one that would..

In search of good search? (And an Xbox 360?)

By Maggie Holland, June 30, 2009 at 10:41 am

"What did people do before the internet?" is a question I've heard many times. Having been around pre-web, I can just about remember what life was like. People certainly used to talk to one another..

O2 runs out of iPhone 3GS

By Davey Winder, June 30, 2009 at 10:02 am

Apple sold a million iPhone 3GS units in the first three days worldwide, and now it would have appear to have run out of them altogether in the UK. According to the stock update..

Give Google a Break!

By Andrew Miller, February 28, 2009 at 3:55 pm

So I'm sure it hasn't escaped people's attentions that Google Mail had a little bit of downtime this week. A combination of my body clock being on the fritz and our internet connection being about..

Monk and his IT junk # 56

By Monk and his IT junk, November 28, 2008 at 2:49 am

Is Microsoft right to launch free security software?

By Chris Green, November 19, 2008 at 12:16 pm

The news today that Microsoft is axing its fledgling Windows OneCare subscription-based security product for desktop SoHo and consumer users was of little surprise to most of us. As a product it..

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