11 year old Brendan spent over ?1000, unnoticed my his mother, who blames not having online banking and being busy dealing with letters about bouncing direct debits for not realising what what happening with her account. It wasn?t until she contacted the bank due to her card being declined that it came to light Brendan had cleared her out.

Neither Microsoft or Barclays accept liability over the amount paid out on costumes, weapons and games by the youngster, and his mother plans to seek legal advice.

Each of the RIR?s will receive an equal share of the 5 remaining/ 8 networks. Stricter rules are anticipated with reduced ranges available to ISPs, and some held in reserve as networks are given time to test and ready themselves for a full IPv6 rollout.

23 million downloads is pretty impressive and accounts for 0.5% of ALL users worldwide ? pretty impressive for a beta product.

Go grab a copy ? but make sure your AV software is up to date and your IT support contract is paid up!

The issue was raised by Consumer |reports on their blog. The sequence in question shows a young man taking a photo of his chest under his T-shirt and sending it to a female friend. The clip has been labelled as "downright creepy? and has been removed from the promo video by Microsoft. Personally, I don?t see it myself and completely missed it the first time round. Down right creepy it is not. Have a look for your self here.

At the event they will showcase their ?Turtle? and ?Pure? phones, which are part of MS?s project pink. Pure and turtle are mobile phones, but they?re not going to run Windows Phone 7. The phone are to replace T-Mobile Sidekicks. Microsoft recently acquired the company that manufactures them, Danger. They will support Windows Mobile OS however, and will be packed full of social networking features like Facebook? and Twitter. They will also include the Zune music service.

Turtle and Pure will both be touch screen slider phones, due to go on sale with in a month of the official announcement on April 12th.

Modification to?an Xbox 360 in order to play copied or illegal games is officially a violation of the end user agreement. Many suspected Microsoft were simply peddling empty threats and wouldn’t actually block paid subscriptions to the live service. Surely not! I mean, after all these people are paying for a service. It seems Microsoft have held true to their word and today about 600,000 users have been booted off the network.

There will of course be some sort of legal issue surrounding this and I’m sure some bright spark will find a way around the problem. The easiest way of course… don’t mess about with your Xbox and pay for your games!

Exchange Backup Functionality:
Exchange Server 2007 SP2 includes a new VSS plug-in for Windows Server Backup to support Exchange backups. Once you install SP2 you can use the standard Windows backup tool to backup and restore your Exchnage 2007 databases. The new VSSplugin is a single .EXE file called WBBExchange.exe and is automatically installed by SP2 on all Exchange 2007 Servers with the mailbox role installed.

Enhancments to the Auditing system:
There is a new Exchange Auditing events and audit log repository that allows admins to audit the key events relating to their Exchnage servers more easily. This dedicated audit log repository provides much more granularity and performance over exiting methods.

Public Folder Quota Management:
Added cmdlets now allow for easier management of Public folders. These new cmdlets remove the dependancy on the old public folder distributed authoring and versioning administration tools.

Centralised Organisational Settings:
A number of new cmdlet parameters have been added to assist in the management of a number of Exchange organisation settings, these include the following.

• Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace
• Export-Mailbox
• Import-Mailbox
• Move-Mailbox
• New-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory
• New-ManagedFolder
• Restore-Mailbox
• Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory
• Set-CASMailbox
• Set-IMAPSettings
• Set-OABVirtualDirectory
• Set-OrganizationConfig
• Set-POPSettings
• Set-PublicFolder
• Set-TransportConfig
• Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity
• Test-OwaConnectivity
• Test-WebServicesConnectivity