Blog entries tagged News

Googles New Search Engine ( Code named Caffiene )

Administrator — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:14:43 +0100

In the face of increasing innovation and competition in the search market, Google is upping the ante by developing new technology which will speed up indexing search results and create a larger index.

Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content faster and reduce the time between new cRead More...

Gamer robs virtual bank to get real-world cash

Administrator — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

An Australian video gamer has stolen thousands of dollars from a bank inside an online game and converted them into real-world money.

The bank heist happened in Eve Online, where players mine in-game resources to build colonies and space ships in a futuristic space-themed online world. The game has hundreds of thousands of players who pay for access to the world. An in-game economy, complete with its own currency known as interstellar kredits, has emerged to enable trading transactions Read More...

New wireless networks to put Bell and Telus on same footing as Rogers

Administrator — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

MONTREAL - Bell (TSX:BCE) and Telus (TSX:T) customers should have a greater choice of mobile phones, possibly Apple's iPhone, and better prices when the wireless companies roll out next-generation networks in early next year, analysts say.

The move will put both Bell and Telus in a better competitive situation against Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI.B), analysts said Tuesday.

"Levelling the playing field is what this is all about," said analyst Nick Agostino of Research CapitalRead More...

Outlook 2010 to Set New Standard in Irritation

Administrator — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Creating HTML Email is a tough gig.

By the time you add up all the relevant desktop clients and common webmail providers, you are talking about between 15-30 platforms you need to test for. Even if all those mail clients were friendly, modern and predictable net citizens, that would still be a big task.

They're not.

A few years ago - joy of joys - things got significantly harder when Microsoft chose to cripple the rendering-capabilities of their flagship mail product by replRead More...

Phone Lines Expected To Be Busy for Mother's Day

Administrator — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Thinking of calling mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day today? Network congestion is always a problem as it's one of the busiest calling days of the year.

SaskTel's Andy Tate explains, "Mother's Day is one of the busiest calling days of the year, every year. It's busier then Father's Day, busier then Christmas Day and we do expect a high volume of long distance calls, in fact this is the tenth year in a row we project that we will have over one million call attempts Read More...

Huge computer worm Conficker stirring to life

Administrator — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker. Security firm Trend Micro says some of the machines have been updated over the past few days with fake antivirus software - the first attempt by Conficker's authors to profit from their massive "botRead More...

A cyber Trojan worm is expected to hit millions of computers on April 1,

Administrator — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

A cyber Trojan worm is expected to hit millions of computers on April 1, and authorities aren't treating it like an April Fool's joke.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has issued a warning about the latest version of the Conficker worm, which could potentially have infected any computers running a Microsoft operating system.

CIRA, which manages Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, says that the worm will force infected computers to connect randomlyRead More...

Don't Forget – 'Earth Hour' Happens Next Week

Administrator — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

by Mariella Moon

Yes, it's that time of the year again - the time to switch the lights off for one full hour; that is if you're planning to participate in the 2009 Earth Hour event. Earth Hour started off back in 2007 in Sydney to send out people's stance about climate change. Organizers claim as much as 10.2 percent decrease in energy consumption that first year with 2.2 million households in the Australian city taking part in the event.

"Earth Hour is an opportunity for the globaRead More...

NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution

Administrator — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/

Business model for P2P firm at last?

By Lewis Page

Posted in Government, 12th February 2009 11:32 GMT

Counter Terror Expo News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering "billions" to any Read More...

Three undersea cables cut - Middle East and South Asia Affected

Administrator — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

December 19, 2008, 2:01 PM

Internet and voice traffic to much of the Middle East and south Asia has been disrupted by the overnight loss of three major cables spanning the Mediterranean.

According to a notice from France Telecom, the three provisioning cables linking Sicily to Egypt were lost within about 40 minutes of one another Friday morning (local time). A France Telecom-owned maintenance ship will be dispatched to inspect the site within a few hours. Until then, it's not known whatRead More...

About MagicJack - High-quality, easy to use, plug-and-play VoIP service

Administrator — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The goal is to simplify VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to the point where almost anyone can use it. Once subscribed, the only setup needed is plugging the adapter into a USB port and any analog phone into the adapter: the device automatically installs and configures itself within a minute and Read More...

US government to consider encrypting root zone DNS hosts

Administrator — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0100

By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews November 24, 2008, 6:49 PM

The public comments period has officially ended for the NTIA's consideration of requiring domain name servers within the Internet's root zone to, at long last, encrypt their communications. Could there really be any opposition?

For well over a decade, the Internet has had available to it a security measure called DNSSEC, that would enable DNS hosts to request that communications between each other be encrypted, using public keyRead More...

BCE and Telus in 3G network pact

Administrator — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0100

BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. are set to announce an upgrade to a next-generation wireless network next week that will allow the companies to provide the same popular mobile devices, such as the iPhone 3G, that industry leader Rogers Communications Inc. offers, sources have told the Financial Post.

Multiple sources in the telecom industry said Bell Canada and Telus are expected to share the costs of upgrading from their current code division multiple access (CDMA) networks to the globally aRead More...

Parallels Launches Beta of Parallels Plesk Control Panel 9.0

Administrator — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Renton, Wash., October, 13 2008 - Parallels today launched the beta of Parallels® Plesk Control Panel 9.0, the upcoming new version of its popular control panel, used by hosting providers around the world for shared, virtual and dedicated hosting offerings. The solution is designed to simplify the management and administration of websites by automating a large number of tasks, enabling service providers to reduce operating costs and resources while at the same time increasing profitabilitRead More...

Bell, Telus to upgrade networks

Administrator — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Chris Sorensen
Business Reporter

Bell Canada Inc. and Telus Corp. plan to jointly invest an estimated $1 billion in new network technology that will end Rogers Communications Inc.'s monopoly on devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold in Canada.

In a widely anticipated-move, the two phone companies said today that they will "overlay" a third-generation, or 3G, wireless technology that's linked to the GSM (Global System for Mobile) standard onto their existing Read More...

Onsight Data - xeon.onsightdata.com new bandwidth carriers

Administrator — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Onsight Data is pleased to announce that our data center has signed deals with both Verio and Level3 to get a 10G link from each of them in Seattle.

This requires building out fiber paths so the ETA is late October or November time frame. This will bring xeon.onsightdata.com's network uplink capacity to 50Gs.

Seattle, WA (sea01) - 30Gs now going to 50Gs
Internap - 2x 10G
Qwest - 1x 10G
Verio - 1x 10G (coming Q4 2008)
Level3 - 1x 10G (coming Q4 2Read More...

Primus expands Alberta operations

Administrator — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Primus Telecommunications Canada is opening its newest Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Edmonton, Alberta.

The new facility addresses the demand from local small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for better IT support by housing and managing mission critical computer server hardware and software assets in the province.

To demonstrate further its commitment to the Alberta market, Primus has added 12 sales employees and five network staff in Edmonton, and seven sales employRead More...

Canada's Premier IT Security Conference!

Administrator — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world's brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today. Unique to central Canada, SecTor provides an unmatched opportunity for IT Professionals to collaborate with their peers and learn from their mentors. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto, SecTor runs two full days, October 7th and 8th. The event features Keynotes from NRead More...

Why you should upgrade to Joomla 1.5.6

Administrator — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100

From joomla.org

This morning, Joomla.org was defaced a few hours after releasing our new design. This is not a new security issue, but only poor system administration practices on our part. When we updated our Web sites with the Joomla 1.5.6 security fix released yesterday, we simply forgot to update one of our small, non-public development sites.

Now, we could offer many excuses why it was overlooked-we were focused on fixing this vulnerability, creating the paRead More...

Funny Picture

Administrator — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100