If you’re getting frustrated by the limitations of the Windows Explorer interface and fancy something a bit more geared towards the power user, it may be worth taking a look at the feature-stuffed Directory Opus, a commercial file manager that offers more bells and whistles than Santa’s float at Carnival.
Continue reading Directory Opus v9.1 File manager For Windows: Review (91%)
There’s a big potential of this story being such a classic own goal by the UK Government, it’s hilarious – what’s not been clear are the facts.
Downing Street, the UK Prime Minister’s official office has launched a new Website based on WordPress.
Continue reading Does Downing Street Website Take Without Credit? Details
Indi Music Worldwide Fights For Net Neutrality. UK release of Rock The Net CD designed to bring attention to the cause.
Net Neutrality
We’ve been covering Net Neutrality for over two years now.
We think it’s essential that the Internet is free and open. It’s vital that the speed of arrival of each data-packet that travels over the Internet is not dependant on if the ISP makes the decision to slow down its arrival.
Three students who were carrying out academic research into the security vulnerabilities of Boston’s transit fare payment system have had a court order that forbade them to discuss the issues, reversed.
You might have thought that in the ‘land of the free,’ forbidding free speech is the kind of thing that could never happen. Thank goodness this reversal restores a balance.
Continue reading MBTA: MIT Student Court Gagging Order Lifted
The battle for Mobile Broadband is heating up in the UK.
At the weekend, Orange launched their latest offer to try and entice UK must-have-data freaks onto their network.
Continue reading Orange Mobile Broadband: Asus Eee 900 And Modem Free: £25/month
An unnamed woman in UK has been ordered to pay £16,000 after having been found guilty of sharing a game, Dream Pinball 3D, on P2P networks.
The initial default judgement was made against her was at the London County Court on 27 May.
Subsequently the Patents County Court in London handed down damages of £6,086.56 plus costs and disbursements of £10,000.
Recent UK actions
Davenport Lyons, a UK law firm, has been instructed by Topware Interactive, a video game company started in Germany, to pursue UK residents who have been sharing their games on P2P network.
We all know that law is a slow moving beast, but as far back as March, 2007 there was discussion on P2P sites about letters that had been received from Davenport Lyons, which had targeted 500 people at that point.
Continue reading UK File-Sharer Has To Pay £16,000: Historic Background
Just when you think that there’s hope for humanity, that mankind has escaped the slavery that is television, a survey turns up that tells you the complete opposite.
Published today, a study of 2,00 UK digital TV viewers reports that some of the supposedly tech savvy generation Y (16-24 year olds) are still choosing watching TV over other more normal activities.
Continue reading 16-24 Year Olds Still Obsessed With TV, Despite PVRs
Hoping to be heard above the clinking of Michael Phelp’s vast haul of gold medals is Lenovo’s new Lenovo IdeaPad U8, which gets an official debut at the Beijing Olympics
Authorised by the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee, the 10.6-ounce MID (that’s Mobile Internet Device, acronym fans!) packs an 800MHz Intel Atom Z500 processor with 1GB of RAM onboard (up to 2GB supported) and a SD slot for expansion. There’s a small, mobile phone style keypad to the right of the screen with a stylus included.
Continue reading Lenovo IdeaPad U8 Mobile Internet Device Gets Olympic Launch
We wrote about them last month and you’ve probably had a load in your inbox by now, but according to Web security experts, the spoofed news spam messages are now being churned out at up to 5 million every hour.
Continue reading Fake CNN/MSNBC News Spam Hit 5 Million An Hour
After a Flash demo was apparently ‘accidentally’ posted on Palm’s website, bloggers have been busy digging up more information about the forthcoming Palm Pro handset – and by all accounts it’s a bit of a beauty. Much to our joy.