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Today marks the 10th birthday of the world famous Nimda worm (Nimda if you hadn’t spotted it is admin spelt backwards – very funny I’m sure). This virus hit the world shortly after the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the lives … Continue reading

Anybody working in IT will be aware of the game LA Noire. Quite a hit and frankly a refreshing approach to the big game title genre. Numerous rumours have surfaced about the company behind the game suggesting they had sold … Continue reading

Symantec are currently testing a new product aimed at the Android phone user. Usually we see lots of software for security, anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-hacker.. blah blah.. the list goes on. Frankly much of it is a reinvention of the wheel … Continue reading

Microsoft have bought Skype, so that’s not really new information. Paying over the odds for a telco that’s essentially making a loss is a bit weird though right? – All skype really do is sell ads to generate revenue at … Continue reading

The engineering company behind London Underground, has handed Capgemini the huge contract after a rigorous and open procurement process. Transport for London nationalised Tube Lines in 2010- Amey received ?310m for shares and debt. The company is now responsible for … Continue reading

3G outages experienced lately were blamed on a switch problem by Orange, who have apologised and denied any problems have arisen from the network share with T-Mobile. Fixes have been issued and reassurances they are working on a permanent solution … Continue reading

64 bit Windows 7 systems were made unstable by an update from AVG on Wednesday, leaving machines in a continuous reboot loop. An advisory and apology were issued, however no explanation as to what caused the issue have been given … Continue reading

BT are planning trials in the new year that will push downstream speeds up to 1Gbit/s, with the upstream needle being pushed to 400Mbit/s. This technical trial will move BT ahead of competitors Virgin Media – who are increasing maximum … Continue reading

It was a mammoth patch Tuesday just gone. Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle all released updates for critical vulnerabilities. Microsoft release 11 updates that patched 25 bugs. Three of these for flaws in media software that allowed hackers in when listening/viewing … Continue reading

Microsoft and HP’s partnership (called Frontline) was been ‘upgraded’ to jointly make and distribute Windows based server stacks. Continue reading