It has been reported that the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft is in talks with Face Book for a minority share of the social-networking Web site. In what appears to be a desperate attempt to compete with the phenomenon that is Google Microsoft are reported to be offering $300 to $500 million for 5% of…
Recently I have been trying out Google Apps as a possible alternative to office and more importantly an alternative to pop3 emails that we use with our hosting company. At the moment we offer unlimited email accounts with our hosting however these standard mailboxes are limited to 20 meg, and the SMTP has to be…
Further to our post about the Storm Worm Botnet being the world’s most powerful supercomputer we have more Botnet/Virus news for you. Computers inside pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s network are spamming the internet with e-mails touting the company’s flagship erectile-enhancement drug Viagra, along with ads for knockoff Rolexes and shady junk stocks. But the e-mails are…
A new technology has emerged which makes Blu-ray’s 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it’s able to fit an incredible 1TB of data onto one “TeraDisc” which is the same size as CDs and DVDs. That’s 20 times the capacity of a maxed-out dual-layer Blu-ray disc. The incredible capacity achieved using this new…
Synergy is one of my favourite applications for my home and work computers. It lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It also has the added bonus of being able to share the clipboard between computers. Ok so…