Looks like the new worm that reared its ugly head on Monday is starting to cause some unease in the sector. So far it has had an astounding infection rate but experts fear that the worst may still come in the form of a supposedly scheduled DOS (Denial Of Service) attack this weekend. Read on…… Read More »Master Blaster
Old news at this stage but worth a mention again after a recent article in the Irish Times (08/08/2003: subscription only) showed that the affiliate program for Google AdSense was actually paying good dividends to small website owners. It’s a handy way of making your website work for you and generate a bit of revenue… Read More »Google AdSense
No it’s not the game but for anyone out there following the IBM vs SCO legal battle for the sale of Linux systems, there seems to have been an interesting turn of events. Originally SCO were sueing IBM for selling on the system but now IBM are counter sueing SCO for claiming that bits of… Read More »Counter Strike
The master of storage concepts and organisation is at it again. In this recent article, Jon Udell cites the marriage of XML and SQL and the desire of many developers to store their data structures in XML. Although the points discussed are valid, the article fails to reflect upon the poor quality/efficiency of existing XML… Read More »Mr and Mrs XML (nee SQL)
Just picked the reference for this article off Omar Javaid’s weblog before I got around to reading the register. Anyway it seems as though a Taiwanese company is entering into the market for the production of 802.11g chipsets and as such the prices could start tumbling down. Here’s to competition in an open market! original… Read More »G that’s cheap
In the 18 months or so that I have been following the development of Lindows OS I have always been amazed by the incredible advances made by the development team. Everything from the original idea to America’s cheapest pc. Today they have just announced another fantastic idea for low-tech users who just want basic web,… Read More »Wow!
At last an article about what effect WiFi will have on the mobile phone market. It’s been a while since the last bout of banter regarding the benefits of WiFi in urban areas but with technology under pressure to appear in a dwindling market, this could be a precursor to a new release. source: CNN.com
Report on always on computer users, whose machines may be hijacked by a new trojan that acts as a proxy for distributing advertisements relating to adult sites. Most people should be protected from it with some general security measures. However, more enticing is the story that always-on broadband users are continually subject to attacks from… Read More »Hijacked!!
Looks like O2 have jumped on the blogging band wagon and are now offering a mobile phone bloggng service to customers. You can now post all your picture phone images via MMS to a blog for others to view. Interesting concept and I can’t wait to see the huge influx of quality onto the web… Read More »FoneBlog
Just catching up on some feeds on the register and noticed this little article on the common practice of WiFi users sending everything they own over an unencrypted, unsecure connection. I suppose that this is a testament to the fact that either most people don’t know about securing their connections or they are just too… Read More »WiFi in a wide open space