Archive for the 'In the News' Category

MSI adds ‘Dust Removal Tech’ to graphics card

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Do you have problems with dust buildup in your graphics cards? Then MSI's N580GTX featuring ’Dust Removal Tech’ might be just what you're looking for. How does it work? It's actually pretty simple: When the system is turned on, the graphics card fan will rotate in the opposite direction for 30 seconds. By running in reverse, the fan helps [...]

Could you live a day without technology?

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Could you live a day without technology? Could you put the cellphone, computer, iPod, TV, Twitter and Facebook (yes, abandoning your farm for a day!) away for a day? A survey carried out by Intersperience suggests that giving up technology is like kicking an addiction. The project also involved qualitative research, including challenging participants to get through one full day without using technology. [...]

Apple releases iOS 4.3.5

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Apple has released iOS update 4.3.5 for iOS devices. This update ”Fixes a security vulnerability with certificate validation." This update follows an earlier update to fix a PDF vulnerability (the one that was used by JailbreakMe.com to jailbreak iOS devices via the Safari mobile browser). This update applies to: iPhone 4 (GSM model) iPhone 3GS [...]

Outlook 2007 crashing after IE9 Install

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Hmmmm have noticed that since I've upgraded to IE9, Outlook is continually crashing (and restarting). You can also reproduce the fault by clicking Tools | Trust Center I've tested it on three machines (both 32 and 64 bit) and does it every time. I've done some searches but so far no one at Microsoft seems [...]

Play.com confirms customer data leakage

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Got this email from Play.com last night: Dear Customer, Email Security Message We are emailing all our customers to let you know that a company that handles part of our marketing communications has had a security breach. Unfortunately this has meant that some customer names and email addresses may have been compromised. We take privacy and security [...]