Archive for August, 2008

Computer viruses make it to orbit

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Laptops taken to the International Space Station were infected with a computer virus, Nasa confirms. Read more..

Mozilla gives the passionates one with Ubiquity

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

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Judge Allows No Delay of Miers’s Testimony About Fired Prosecutors

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

A federal judge yesterday refused to delay his order requiring former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers to testify in Congress, another legal setback for the Bush administration's attempts to ... Read more..

Robo-skeleton lets paralysed walk

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

A human exoskeleton robotic suit is helping people paralysed from the waist down to stand, walk and climb stairs. Read more..

iPhone ad rapped as ‘misleading’

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

The Advertising Standards Authority calls an iPhone advert "misleading" for saying all of the web is available on the phone. Read more..

Bank customer data sold on eBay

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

A PC containing personal data of a million bank customers is sold on a net auction site for Read more..

Two-thirds of UK homes now online

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Latest official figures show the number of UK households with internet access rose to 16.5 million this year. Read more..

Cloud city

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Bill Thompson has the future in his hand Read more..

Scrabulous game disappears from Facebook UK website

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

The popular online game is now unavailable in the UK after Mattel, the toy company that owns the rights to Scrabble outside North America, started legal action against its designers. Read more..

Trusted sites thwart net hijacks

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Tricky hack attacks could be thwarted by using trusted sites to police web use, say researchers. Read more..