Sega is the latest company to admit to being hacked and has admitted that in a recent attack on its computer systems, the personal details of 1.29 million customers was stolen. The […]
It's being reported that the US Federal Trade Commission has given the green light to Microsoft's proposed buyout of Internet communications company Skype. The purchase was announced a few weeks ago and […]
When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and […]
I get a lot of troubleshooting emails from people asking how to do X or why Z won't work on their PCs. One of the common ones I get though is asking […]
I get troubleshooting emails on a wide variety of subjects, it's always great when you can help people out and one I received this week was from someone who'd bought the latest […]
Apple this week announced their new iCloud service, bringing together MobileMe and iTunes in the cloud. With it though they also announced they were dropping support for Windows XP from the new […]
Last week I reviewed the Samsung Series 9 laptop and you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of my reviews here. Today the review unit goes back but I thought it […]
It's being reported that hackers have stolen the details of thousands of Citibank customers including their account details and personal information. The breach has not exposed the names, dates of birth and […]
The largest test yet of the Internet's new IPv6 addressing system is taking place worldwide today. Companies including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook are switching on IPv6 versions of their websites for […]
Yesterday Steve Job's unveiling of a host of new Apple products and services was very well received, including the official product tour for the next version of OS X on the Mac […]
I've got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they're just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important […]
There's been a lot of talk recently about the next version of Windows running on ARM processors at only 1GHz. Many people have been skeptical, few more so than myself. Rather than […]
This week I've been testing Samsung's new Ultraportable laptop, their Macbook Air equivalent. Yesterday I wrote about the hardware itself which is absolutely gorgeous and even lighter than the Air. Today I'll […]
In the race to beat the Macbook Air for size and portability, there have been precious few Windows laptops. Indeed so far we've only seen Sony's Z Series and the Dell Adamo […]
In the final part of this article series I want to look at what the future might hold for the Internet and all of us who use it. So far I've discussed […]
In the first two parts of this article series I've written about how Iran is reportedly planning to build their own in-country Internet and asked if western countries want to constrain the […]
Yesterday I wrote and article about how Iran apparently wants to create its own in-country Internet. This move is almost unprecedented with only North Korea having done this before. In the article […]
The Internet is a fascinating place, especially when countries that don't embrace the concepts of freedom of expression and freedom of speech are involved. Each of these countries takes it's own view […]
For all of you who have been to a Microsoft Tech.Day or TechEd event you'll be familiar with the format. A series of presentations throughout the day, organised into relevant groupings, on […]
Windows has always had what many people believe to be an unconventional and frustrating method of addressing physical hard disks. I'm talking here about drive letters. These virtual constructs, I can only […]
There's been so much news in recent weeks about stuff that's going to turn into our computing future that I'm hardly surprised most people have failed to join the dots. If you […]
Since being awarded my MVP from Microsoft on January 1st this year I've had a fair few questions from people asking about the MVP program, what it is, what the benefits are […]
It's not been a good few weeks for technology companies with all manner of high-profile hackings being reported, not just on technology websites such as gHacks, but worldwide on the early evening […]
The latest anti-virus test figures for Windows 7 are out and there are a good few shocks to be seen in the results. In the tests performed by AVTest, BitDefender has leapt […]
Sometimes when you need to perform diagnostics on a faulty or malfunctioning copy of Windows, Safe Mode is too restrictive, too frustrating in use and unable to provide an environment that has the […]
>In light of Sony's security breach last week it's clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security […]
The sheer volume of excitement about Windows 8 has taken me quite by surprise with more leaks than we ever saw with Vista or Windows 7 in the same time-frame. The excitement […]
I'm well known for being a PC minimalist. I even make a bit of a fuss about this in my book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, that if you want to have […]
As a new Windows MVP I'll be having my first meetings next week with Microsoft at their UK head office in Reading. It's going to be very interesting as it’s my first […]
Microsoft came under heavy fire with the launch of Windows 7 for not offering a direct migration path from XP. The older operating system, which is now ten years old, is something Microsoft […]
Nope, this isn't a belated April fool, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser only just out of the door and not even delivered to many users yet through Windows Update, the first platform […]
Publisher Simon & Schuster have announced that the first official biography of Apple supremo Steve Jobs will be published early in 2012. "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" from Walter Isaacson marks the […]
As people are using PCs for many more things at home and the computer itself has become, in a few cases, an objet d'art in the case of some all-in-one devices companies are putting […]
It's been on the cards for a couple of years now but today YouTube has launched its new Live service. New live streaming video can be found at www.youtube.com/live and they follow several […]
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I've been testing NetGear's new, top of the range Neo TV 550 […]
There are all manner of images, screenshots and leaked details coming out now about Windows 8 and we already know a lot about what Microsoft want this product to be. We know […]
In the last few years the world of computer peripherals has changed with many high-end products coming to market. Now though a great many of these products are the norm with keyboards […]
It's been over a decade now that we've had secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology for making Internet transactions safe. With only a very few exceptions, including a certificate cloning scare a […]
Now that mobile carriers around the world are beginning to roll out updates to Windows Phone, many Windows PC users are finding that the update(s) cannot be installed because they encounter an […]
If you, like me, have a Windows Phone and are wondering just when you'll get a message telling you that an update is available, fear not. Already we have two updates for […]
