The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 today. It was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is now the largest and most popular reference website with over 17 […]
The first global test of the IPv6 net addressing system will take place on June 8th, and Google, Facebook, Akamai and Yahoo will all be taking part, according to a report by […]
Sony have announced that they're suing the hackers who uncovered the security codes for the PlayStation 3, that the console uses to determine that software is genuine. This means that anybody who has […]
A study by anti-fraud company MarkMonitor has monitored 43 file-sharing websites and found that between them they had 53 billion visits in the last year, according to a report by the BBC. […]
Yesterday I wrote here that global spam levels had dropped mysteriously month on month since August 2010 from a high of about a quarter of a trillion messages a day to about […]
It's been reported that the total volume of global spam email that is being sent has fallen, month-on-month since the beginning of August 2010 and nobody knows why. The fall, which you […]
Firstly, a big thank you to everybody who sent me such nice messages after I was given a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award by Microsoft last week, for "Windows Expert (Consumer)", you're all […]
A voluntary agreement by all the major mobile phone manufacturers comes into force today in the EU, and because of the way phones are manufactured these days it's bound to very quickly […]
Amazon have now launched their latest salvo in the eBook wars, allowing people to borrow eBooks much like we've been doing with libraries for hundreds of years. The books can only be […]
There's been good news and bad for Microsoft this week. The good news is that the number of apps available in the new Windows Phone marketplace has been growing steadily since October […]
The buzz word in computing in 2010 has been tablet, as popularised by Apple's iPad. This year we've seen tablets go on sale using Google's Android operating system and Windows 7, and […]
Christmas day this year brought an extra present for me, I was due a free upgrade on my phone from my mobile carrier. I'd spent a long time before weighing up the pros […]
Millions of Skype users have been unable to make calls using the VoIP service since last night after a software issue affected critical parts of its network according to the BBC. Engineers […]
Bloomberg have today written that Microsoft's apparent new Tablet version of Windows that's set to be unveiled at CES next month will be a special version running on ARM chips, which is […]
Lillian Lowe switched on to Facebook when her husband died in July. Now the 103 year-old from Tenby, Pembrokeshire (UK) is the world's oldest known social networker and has been inundated with […]
The Wikileaks story rumbles on as we near the end of 2010 and the latest company to withdraw its support is the Bank of America. This follows on from other financial institutions […]
Social networking site Facebook was offline for half an hour yesterday due to an error by a software engineer at the company as reported by the BBC. The engineer accidentally put internal […]
It's a sad day for search as Yahoo! have announced they're to close the AltaVista search engine. AllThingsDigital report that cutbacks at Yahoo! are responsible for the decision. Other products to be […]
It is the silly season so it was only right to announce that supercomputing giant IBM are so confident in the processing abilities of their new Watson machine that they are pitting […]
British law firm ACS Law has already come under fire this year after hackers broke into their computer system and stole copies of documentation of letters and demands for recompense to people […]
We love maps here at gHacks, especially ones that show technology trends around the world. The latest is asocial networking trends map from Vincenzo Consenza who has partitioned the planet up to show […]
The Wikileaks story continues to roll on around the world but as the story now moves its focus to the website founder Julian Assange, questions are now beginning to be asked about […]
Back in August, Google's Andy Rubin proudly boasted that Android phones were being sold at the rate of 200,000 worldwide every day. The statement drew snyde remarks from Steve Jobs. Now, Rubin […]
I'm going to come clean, I'm not a fan of Google's Android operating system. I just don't think that a desktop / icons approach is appropriate for either a smartphone or a […]
Google have launched their new own-branded Smartphone, the Samsung-made Nexus S, to lots, some, a bit of fanfare around the world. The handset runs the latest version of their Android operating system […]
Normally any software company that finds one of its product keys being shared on torrent websites would crack down pretty quickly by withdrawing it. Not Avast however who, according to a report […]
We all take for granted now that we have fast, reliable broadband and most of us can't even remember the days of dial-up of even acoustic couplers. Now the BBC have put […]
The international launch of the BBC's iPlayer service, one of if not the finest example of an IPTV service, has been eagerly awaited now and has been expected for a couple of […]
I have mixed feelings about this, but the BBC is reporting that the police in the UK are seeking co-operation with the Internet's domain provider, Nominet, to close .uk domains that are associated […]
Tomorrow WikiLeaks is set to reveal a new series of classified US documents that have been sent by United States Embassies around the world. The revelations set to shed new light on the […]
Update: Apple in the meantime released new versions of the iPad. At the time of writing this update, 4th generation iPads are available including an iPad Mini. Suggested features for the iPad […]
Two interesting Windows Phone stories have emerged today. The first of which is that the phone's app store now has over 3,000 apps and 15,000 developers. This means we can expect to […]
Okay, so I might poke fun at the price Apple charges for its computers, but this one is truly antique. One of the very first Apple personal computers, first sold as a […]
The latest version of Apple's iOS operating system has been released today and it brings with it several welcome enhancements, not the least of which is multi-tasking for the iPad, iPhone (3G, […]
Update: The action figure is not available anymore. You find other Steve Jobs toys on sites like Amazon for example. There you find Steve Jobs Lego figurines for instance. It was only […]
Reuters are reporting that traffic for some "highly sensitive" US websites was briefly redirected through China. In a report by the BBC, the incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April saw […]
It's long been rumoured that Apple will launch a streaming music service to rival (erm... their rival) Spotify. Now the company is talking up "an exciting announcement from iTunes" tomorrow with the […]
The technology we use every day is move ever more relentlessly towards the cloud. This isn't a new concept, it's been around since the birth of Hotmail and other similar webmail services. […]
There has been discussion for a few weeks now about how Microsoft's new smartphone OS handles expendable storage, with many people reporting that inserting the wrong card can reduce the OS to […]
It's been widely reported that the old IPv4 Internet addressing system is creaking under the weight of the demands placed on it and that the available addresses will run out completely by […]
