Tech News 27/01/2012
EU: Time running out for web companies on ‘do not track’ system Steely Neelie: Agree on it by June, or I’ll force one on you
Internet companies have been urged to establish a final standardised system that will allow users to control their privacy settings across websites.…
Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?
Review While currently every notebook manufacturer seems to offering the thinnest, lightest and easiest to carry around notebook ever, in a bizarre way, it’s quite refreshing to find a company wandering off message and offering notebooks at the other end of the scale. Enter Eurocom’s Panther 2.0, the heaviest, most amazingly specified, most expensive and without doubt the fastest performing notebook I’ve …
Tech News 21/01/2012
How can family sysadmins make a safe internet playground for kids? The scourge of Sonic the Hedgehog abominations
Confab Internet access isn’t about PCs any more, and keeping an eye on one’s children is tough for even the most techno-literate parent despite the plethora of tools available.…
Ten… boomboxes The noise on the street
Product round-up There are some really excellent iOS speaker systems available at the moment, but most of them are designed for a tasteful dinner party with friends rather than a full-on party scene. And, of course, they’re mostly mains-powered and designed for use at home. However, there are a number of boombox systems that can run off batteries when you go outdoors and really pump up the jam – sometimes to quite …
Tech News 20/01/2012
NASA shuts off Voyager 1′s central heating Probe enters energy-saving phase at edge of space
NASA has switched off a heater on a part of the Voyager 1 probe, plunging the temperature of its one functioning instrument to below minus 110° Fahrenheit (minus 79°C) – well below the minimum temps of minus 31° Fahrenheit (minus 35° C) at which it was designed to operate.…
Online ad body: Let’s slather ‘opt out’ icons everywhere Cookie-sniffer info packages for the stalked masses
An advertising icon that explains to internet users about online behavioural advertising (OBA) should be displayed alongside almost every ad regardless of whether they themselves are targeted ads, an industry body has said.…
Iomega TV with Boxee networked storage If, at first, you don’t …
Tech News 17/01/2012
Taxman two months late on cyber-crimefighters deadline HMRC still wants our dosh on time though
HMRC has missed a key deadline to create teams of cyber crime investigators and launch initiatives to counter the increased threat of web attacks on the authority’s systems and customers.…
Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition Android tablet Size of relief
Review Like Goldilocks with porridge, I’ve yet to find a tablet size that I think is just right. Seven inch models are too small, 10.1 inchers too big. The iPad with its 9.7in screen should do the trick but it’s just too square for me – physically and metaphorically.…
NASA study identifies the ‘low hanging fruit’ in climate change Rocket scientists say warming reduction isn’t rocket science
A group …
Tech News 17/12/2011
Ten… inkjet photo printers Making pictures
Product Round-up There’s only really one choice of technology for printing photos well and economically. Inkjet printers produce better quality photos than traditional silver halide, one of the reasons digital photography has superseded it.…
Security mandates aim to shore up shattered SSL system Too little, too late
A consortium of companies has published a set of security practices they want all web authentication authorities to follow for their secure sockets layer certificates to be trusted by browsers and other software.…
Adobe kills two actively exploited bugs in Reader Unscheduled update coming to Windows machine near you
Adobe has released updates for its Reader and Acrobat applications that fix two vulnerabilities that attackers were exploiting to seize control of …