Update On Microsoft Versus Yahoo
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »The wrangling over Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo continues today with more tactics being deployed by both sides. Yahoo have enlisted the help of Google in a bid to stave off a hostile takeover by Microsoft and the two have ...
Buying Bank Details Over The Net Is A Thriving Business
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »A new business has emerged through the internet and is doing a roaring trade. Bank details make up part of the information that is stolen every day through various means and sold for as little as five pounds over the ...
Vista Update
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Regular readers of High Position technology blogs will know that we ourselves have experienced numerous infuriating problems with Vista. And here is our latest instalment! A new Vista service update has been released by Microsoft and claims to improve stability, security ...
Dutch Website Closed Amid Fears Of Terrorism
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Controversy has once again been spawned from the news that a Dutch website expected to be used to release a film that bathes Islam in a bad light has been shut down. It is suspected that guidelines on hate language may ...
New Generation Virtual Computing
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Computers that look like pens and project a keyboard and monitor onto any flat surface in your chosen space seem like something from the future but is about to become a reality. Using Bluetooth technology, this new invention coming, of course, ...
Technology Has Reached The Palate.
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Pick up a menu in any restaurant (other than McDonald’s) and read those descriptions of the dishes on offer that make your mouth water. You know what you’re getting, what is likely to be in it and the only place ...
iPlayer Available To All But Hackers
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »There is an on-going battle to prevent hackers from piracy offences when it comes to internet downloads. The iPlayer website provides music that is intended to only be accessible to people downloading to an iPhone or iPod but hackers found a ...
Google Map-Maker Banned At Pentagon
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »Internet giant Google is now banned from filming inside the US defence department. Google maps had made detailed studies of the US military bases, providing public images of the base layout. However, reports show that close-up imagery on ground level ...
One For The Girl’s
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »A new Forbes Rich List has been released today giving details of the world’s richest people. (There was a clue in the title, there!) It ranks Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg as the youngest US self made billionaire ever. At the tender ...
Speedier Broadband In Sight
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »British university engineers are planning a speedier future for users of Broadband. Using current telecommunications systems but using them more efficiently means it will soon be possible to download 15 full-length Hollywood movies in one minute. This is a timescale that ...