Category: Tech News

Online fraudsters may be ready to put Mac users in their sights. On Thursday, antivirus firm F-Secure published a brief analysis of a proof-of-concept adware program for the Mac OS X that could theoretically hook into any application to run attacker-specified code. The program, dubbed IAdware by F-Secure, could be silently installed in a user’s… Continue reading Proof-of-Concept adware program for OS X announced

The ultrapopular auction/sales Web site continues its exponential growth and finds itself adding 10 terabytes of new storage every week. That’s a lot of data. eBay, like Xerox and Google, is fast becoming its own generic verb for what it does (“Oh, just eBay it” :P) And when a company itself becomes the name for… Continue reading Web 2.0: How High-Volume eBay Manages Its Storage

New model Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros and iMacs appear to be the first Macs to deploy the new wireless 802.11n standard. While the machines recognise the wireless card as only being an 802.11g device, MacRumors reckons the cards are actually built to support the standard. 802.11n hasn’t yet been ratified, but it appears likely… Continue reading Apple Secretly Implementing 802.11n Wireless Standard

I’ve just discovered this relatively new service called GtalkPhone (thanks to Rickshaw) that allows you to instantly connect to any phone anywhere. Although GTalkPhone is fairly new service (offered in conjunction with Google talk… hence the name), the company has been around for more than a decade providing advanced telecommunications, including PBX, Toll Free and… Continue reading GTalkPhone, Make PC-to-Phone Calls

Dell is preparing to launch a new range of notebooks costing under $500 according to reports. The new range is said to be powered by processors from AMD. Taiwanese news site Digitimes quotes notebook manufacturers in the Far East as saying that the new range is likely to be launched next month.Prices will range from… Continue reading Dell to Launch Sub $500 Notebooks