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  • Security problems open Microsoft's Wallet

    The company insists that its Passport authentication system can keep customers' financial data safe. But an open-source programmer is pointing out holes in that assertion.

  • Online Shopping Guide

    Don't get ripped off while shopping online! Learn how to shop safely on the Internet with this handy guide. Covering tools, safety techniques and privacy hints, this is all you need to surf and shop safely this Christmas.

  • Gates: Security is top priority

    Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has set security as the top priority for the software maker's products, a shift that analysts say can't happen soon enough.

  • Facebook valued at $10bn as Microsoft opens wallet

    Microsoft is in talks to acquire five percent of social-networking site Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Amazon brings back the e-wallet

    A little-noticed detail of Amazon.com's recent deal with Target may revive an e-commerce feature once given up for dead: the online wallet.

Features and Case Studies (19)

  • Stopping spam at the source

    New anti-spam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most -- their wallets.

  • Mobile comms: can you predict the future?

    Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.

  • Microsoft eyes ads as consumers close wallets

    Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profits for Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business.

  • Criminal gangs turn to blackmailing the average user

    While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a kickback of thousands of pounds, it seems some are taking a more small-scale approach to extortion: now average PC users are being targeted.

  • Managing your move into mobility

    With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

Reviews (18)

  • ASUS P525

    ASUS enters the local smartphone arena with a bang -- the P525 quad-band PDA looks to be a great companion for the mobile professional.

  • O2 Xda Atom Exec

    An incremental upgrade to the Atom, the Atom Exec is an incredibly feature-rich, well-designed smartphone.

  • Dell PowerEdge 1950

    With computing power to burn, the PowerEdge 1950 is ideal where high performance is required, such as clustering and Web front-end duties. However, the ramped format does make life more difficult when it comes to database hosting and other backend deployments.

  • Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier

    The core utilities in Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier lack newer options found elsewhere; some older utilities are simply deficient; it leaves Windows 98 and Me users out in the cold.

  • Tech Guide: Form-filling software

    If you're tired of filling in online forms with the same old information time and time again, here are three apps that'll remember all your details and fill in the forms for you.

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