Online banking losses up though

A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

SDK lands with a bump

Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Free licenses lure cloud army to VMware

Open-source Java framework specialist SpringSource has unveiled a new incarnation of its Apache Tomcat-based tc Server, offering application developers and operators additional tools for building, deploying, and monitoring their software on the lightweight runtime platform.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player

Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Routing like it's 1949

Garmin's Geko 201 GPS kit can't decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it's switched on, though it's performing better on days of the week.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Well done chaps, no damage to society at all

The minister responsible for counter-terrorism has said that despite "some very nasty bastards out there who aim to do us harm", government security initiatives have made the UK safer from attacks in recent years.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Trick-cyclist blasts Googleplex massage parlour

It's official. Proper actual science* has confirmed that the young Westerners of Generation Y (people now in their 20s) are idle, workshy loafers by comparison to their elders. They are also think that the world owes them a handsome living, having higher expectations of salary and status than their predecessors.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Corporate crusaders for free speech unite

Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'

A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Sector inspector

Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

WebOs goes native

Palm has released its Plug-in Development Kit, enabling native development for those who find AJAX just can't cut it.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Connect-your-own-storage DVR too

Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It's also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make it a doddle to transfer taped programmes to a PC.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Wife is 100% free range and foie gras fed

A New York chef is offering samples of cheese made from his wife's breast milk with the promise that it's "100 per cent organic, free range and foie gras fed".?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Warns of more bumps ahead

Gordon Brown is set to announce the Budget will happen at the end of the month, increasing the likelihood that the election will be on 6 May.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Kiss and don't tell

Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Turn left here and jump that red light

Google is offering a cycling option for users of its map service.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Hard to resist

Review The flourishing Android operating system has appeared on phones made by Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and HTC. Now Google has launched its own handset, though it?s actually made by HTC, which has made the bulk of Android handsets so far.?

Feds cuff JihadJane

A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Dual-node MS2 cluster

Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

The non-iPad iPad clone

The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Doggies digitized for your protection

Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pony up for dog-attack insurance.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

One stop Google bolt-on shop

The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Is it real? Or is it Skytap?

Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Agrees to safeguard customer data

An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Reliability boost roadmap

Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

The first rule of iPhone Club is...

In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

The new Microsoft

Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here

How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine

Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

IE 6 and 7 users targeted

Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Vostro 3000 line debuts

Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".?

Lancaster Gate-gate

Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too

If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim

Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

The fall of Nav4All

A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

SCR ain't ready for primetime

The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Simon Phipps rides out of Ellison town

Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Is this the wrong question?

Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what?s the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It?s a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent, Hunt queried why £100m was being spent, merely to attract "very, very small" audiences.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres?

Comment The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an average of as little as 14.5 per working day.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad

What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Old warrior clobbered

Older versions of the Windows flavour of Apache's web server software are vulnerable to a critical code injection flaw as well as a pair of lesser security bugs.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Report shows state of international surveillance heavyweights

A new report highlights a depressingly consistent drift towards ever greater control of the population using new technologies.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Stock jumps as rumors fly

Today will see Cisco making an announcement that it claims will "forever change the internet". The stock market certainly believed it, sending the IP giant's shares to their highest level in more than a year ($26.34) yesterday. Given Cisco's heritage and product strategy it has more likelihood than most of delivering on its claim, but remains tightlipped about the details - sparking rumors from a gigabit wholesale network to an extended wireless core play to a set-top box.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Third degree assault rap for 'biohazard' mam squirt

A Kentucky woman cuffed for public intoxication added a third degree assault charge to her rap sheet after allegedly squirting breast milk into a sheriff's deputy's face.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Send fewer to uni, charge 'em more

A recruiters group is calling for an end to government targets to get 50 per cent of school leavers involved in higher education.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Pretty much slotting into Microsoft's typical roadmap, then...

Microsoft has pulled the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 forward to the final quarter of this year, according to a speculative report.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Samsung's iPhone pitch comes to life

Samsung has been showing its first Bada phone, able to download applications from Samsung's version of iTunes and nowhere else. But will Bada really challenge Apple and the iPhone??

What is your recession sales strategy?

Superbike performance?

Review When you think of Italian superbike marques, you think of the colour red - a vigorous, powerful, thrusting hue. Yet Toshiba has chosen to deck its Ducati-themed Satellite U500 out in - dare we say it, slightly feminine - white.?

Android phone comes riddled with bots

Updated Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Sumitomo Corporation has acquired 50% equity stake in Australian based grain company Emerald Group Australia Pty Ltd and would enter into grain accumulation business in Australia

Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., has entered an agreement with Nucor Corporation to own and operate a flat rolled steel processing network and other steel related projects throughout North America.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, also known as MOL, announced two long-term charters by an ExxonMobil affiliate and their partners in their Papua New Guinea LNG Project.

Sony Corp. has pulled the plug in Japan on sales of a next-generation flat TV due to sluggish demand, a setback for a product the company had trumpeted as a sign of its revival as an innovator.

NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced that it has begun accepting subscriptions in Australia for Global e-VLAN, a broadband connectivity service for secure close networks via wide-area Ethernet technology. With the launch, the service will be available in 12 countries and regions worldwide.

INPEX Alpha, a wholly-owned subsidiary INPEX Corproration, has started crude oil production from the Van Gogh Field in the production license WA-35-L, the Exmouth Basin offshore Western Australia. Peak daily oil rate is projected to be 40,000 barrels of oil per day.

Hitachi and Saskatchewan Power, the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, will collaborate on technology in the fields of Low-Carbon Energy technologies including Carbon Capture and Storage(CCS), AQCS (Air Quality Control System), Boiler and Steam Turbine Generators.

Mitsui & Co. announced that Mitsui and Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd., ("MOECO") have entered into a definitive agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation ("Anadarko") to participate in the development and production of the Marcellus Shale gas project in the state of Pennsylvania.

Mitsubishi Corporation has completed its funding obligations specified under an Option Agreement with CanAlaska Uranium Ltd., and has now earned a 50% interest in the West McArthur project through its wholly owned Canadian subsidiary MC Resources Canada Ltd.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela announced that it has awarded a contract to develop and produce Orinoco extra-heavy crude oil to the consortium of Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Chevron Corporation (Chevron), INPEX Corporation (INPEX), and Suelopetrol.

Sumitomo Corporation and Nippon Coke & Engineering have reached an agreement to establish a new company on Apr. 01, 2010 to produce and sell the anode material for lithium-ion secondary battery.

Marubeni Corporation has been awarded a Contract for EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) for the Biomass and Clean Coal Cogeneration Plant by TP Utilities (TPU), a subsidiary of Tuas Power, one of the major power companies in Singapore. The contract is worth approximately USD 250 million.

Rakuten Inc. will launch a virtual shopping mall targeting Chinese consumers through a joint venture with Baidu Inc. The major Japanese electronic commerce firm will team with Baidu to set up a joint venture in Beijing as soon as they receive government approval. The joint venture will be 51 percent owned by Rakuten and the rest by Baidu.

Yahoo Japan Corp. had a 9 percent rise in group net profit for the fiscal third quarter ended December, helped by revenue growth in its business services segment. For the October-December period, its net profit climbed to 20.86 billion yen (US$231 million) due to sales growth boosted by a year-end sales campaign on Yahoo! Shopping.

Willcom Inc. will likely file for bankruptcy as part of a restructuring set to involve investment from a state-backed fund and Softbank Corp. Willcom, majority owned by U.S. buyout firm Carlyle, has been weighed down by heavy debts and has been struggling to expand its subscriber base in the country' saturated and fiercely competitive wirelss market.

NEC Electronics Corp. had a quarterly net loss that was 29 percent smaller than a year earlier, as the struggling chipmaker cut spending on research and production. With better demand for microcontrollers used in cars, orders are gradually improving after sliding amid the global economic slowdown, although they are still expected to fall short of their April-September 2008 levels.

Elpida Memory Inc. had its first net profit in nine quarters on a surge in DRAM prices. Elpida, which received an injection of public money last year, is scrambling to migrate to advanced chips to keep up to output hikes by bigger rivals Samsung Electronics Co. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Toshiba Corp. had a smaller-than-expected operating profit as rising materials costs and tumbling PC and TV prices outweighed the benefits of a chip price recovery. Toshiba, the world's No.2 maker of NAND-type flash memory chips after Samsung Electronics Co., earned an operating profit of 10.22 billion yen (US$113.6 million) in October-December.

Verizon Business has completed the latest Trans-Pacific Express submarine cable landing, in Shin Maruyama, Japan. This will allow Verizon's enterprise customers to take advantage of increased network capacity and additional diversity for their IP, data and voice communications needs.

KDDI Corp's net profit for the fiscal third quarter was down 35 percent on year due to the introduction of discount packages for mobile phone handset users. Japan's second-largest mobile phone service operator by subscriber after NTT DoCoMo Inc. generated a net profit of 67.4 billion yen (US$747 million).

The Fuji Electric Group announced today that it has formulated its new three-year medium-term management plan for the period from fiscal 2009 to fiscal 2011. This plan outlines our approach to become a company that contributes to society through its businesses in the field of "energy and the environment."

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt.) Ltd. (HMSI), Honda's wholly-owned motorcycle production and sales subsidiary in India, announced plans to build a second motorcycle production plant to meet increasing demand in the rapidly growing motorcycle market in India.

Fujitsu today announced the availability of a new service to search patent databases outside Japan, offered as software as a service (SaaS). The new service, called ATMS/IR.net, is designed to assist corporate intellectual property departments, as well as engineers and inventors, in conducting global patent inquiries.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has announced that the ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range Gulfstream G650 has successfully completed its first series of flight tests. Two G650 flight-test aircraft - T1 and T2 - were last week airborne simultaneously and were tracked by dual telemetry facilities in real time.

CyberAgent, Inc. has announced the launch of Ameba Pico, a new virtual community that combines gaming, social networking and e-commerce elements and tightly integrates into the Facebook environment.

Sundia MediTech Company, Ltd., a leading pharmaceutical R&D outsourcing Service Company in China, announced that the company has obtained ISO 9001:2008 Quality System Certificate by SGS, an internationally-known certification company.

Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. ("MCC" or the "Company"; stock code: 1618) is pleased to announce that the Company has become one of the constituent stocks of both Hang Seng China Enterprises Index and Hang Seng China 50 Index effective from today.

Thomson Reuters today announced that Eric Frank, President, Investment & Advisory, Thomson Reuters Markets, has relocated to Hong Kong from New York. Mr. Frank's move to Hong Kong strengthens Thomson Reuters commitment to growing its business across the Asia Pacific region.

Singapore games are kicking off the Year of the Tiger on a high note as CarneyVale: Showtime becomes the first Singapore game to close a distribution contract with Microsoft's Games for Windows-LIVE on the PC platform.

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) will start commercial production of high-purity cyclohexanone in Zhejiang Province, China in August 2010, building a 5,000 t/y plant at Zhejiang Quzhou Juhua Showa Electronic Chemical Materials Co., Ltd., a joint venture company in which SDK owns a 51% share.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. began sales throughout Japan of an all-new automobile driving simulator, which underwent a full model change, developed for the purpose of traffic safety education.

Pioneer announced today that the payment for the new shares issued through the international offering, the third-party allotment to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the third-party allotment to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, together with the International Offering and the Third-party Allotment to Mitsubishi Electric, was completed today as originally scheduled.

Lexus announces that it will unveil the five-door hybrid "CT200h"(1) - the first Lexus vehicle in the premium-compact segment - at the 80th Geneva International Motor Show(2), to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, for the press on March 2 and 3 and for the public from March 4 to 14.

Fujitsu today announced that it has completed joint development of a new supercomputer system with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The new supercomputer system went operational today.

NEC Corporation (NEC), a global leader in networking, communications and information technology announced plans today to reorganize its structure as of April 1, 2010 in order to achieve its mid-term "V2012 -Beyond boundaries, Toward our Vision-" plan.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that the all-new CR-Z hybrid vehicle will go on sale in Japan on Friday, February 26, 2010.

NYK and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. are to begin experiments on an air-lubrication system to reduce CO2 emissions during marine transport.

The 3rd Annual Mines and Money Hong Kong, brought to you by the Mining Journal and Beacon Events is pleased to confirm its strongest speaker line-up yet.

Pioneer Corporation hereby announces that it has determined today the amount to be paid and other matters relating to the issuance of new shares through the third-party allotment to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, which was resolved at the meeting of its board of directors held on February 9, 2010.

Pioneer Corporation hereby announces that it has determined today the amount to be paid and other matters relating to the issuance of new shares through the third-party allotment to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, which was resolved at the meeting of its board of directors held on February 9, 2010.

Cisco sort le routeur CRS-3 associant puissance et très haut débit pour s'adapter aux réseaux IP nouvelle génération. Il avait écoulé 5000 unités de la précédente génération auprès de 300 opérateurs.

La firme de Mountain View rend disponible Google Apps Marketplace, sa boutique en ligne d?applications pour les entreprises, qui vient enrichir ses services en ligne Google Apps.

Pour ce mois de mars, Microsoft délivre un Patch Tuesday contenant deux bulletins de sécurité corrigeant 8 failles détectées dans plusieurs versions de Movie Maker sous Windows et dans des fichiers Office Excel.

Dans une enquête d'évaluation du premier impact de la loi Hadopi, l'Université de Rennes considère que la lutte anti-piratage au regard de la loi ne donne pas l'effet escompté.

Afin de s?implanter davantage sur le marché des petites entreprises, Dell sort sa nouvelle gamme de PC portables Vostro 3000, à des prix attractifs pour séduire les TME et PME.

L?opérateur mobile virtuel Prixtel commercialise le Nexus One de Google, avant l?annonce de sa sortie officielle en France. Pour l?acquérir, il faudra aussi souscrire à un forfait associé.

Certains clients qui avaient commandé sur le site marchand américain Newegg.com des processeurs Intel Core i7 ont en fait reçu de pâles imitations de ces puces. Newegg accuse son fournisseur.

L'équipementier réseaux leader mondial Cisco va arrêter la production de solutions réseaux Wimax. Le potentiel LTE-4G est plus alléchant.

Suite à plusieurs tests, certains internautes ont remis en cause la caractère aléatoire de l?affichage des cinq premiers navigateurs dans le ballot screen. Microsoft a rapidement réagi.

En réponse à un blog média suédois, le patron d'Apple a précisé qu'il n'existera pas de fonction modem iPhone 3G compatible avec l'iPad Wi-Fi (tethering).

Suivez la rédaction de la newsletter pendant la semaine...

Le fameux « Ballot Screen » proposé par Microsoft pour régler définitivement les problèmes du choix du navigateur Internet avec Windows 7 semble soulever l'enthousiasme des autorités européennes. L'éditeur, étonné de cette réception si positive, semble désormais prêt à adopter cette méthode pour tous les problèmes à venir ...

L'histoire se répète une nouvelle fois, c'est à croire que les ayants droit oublient trop rapidement les leçons du passé. The Pirate Bay suit en effet très exactement la même destinée que feu-Napster. Très populaire, le service peer-to-peer Napster avait été rapidement mis en difficulté ...

La loi n° 20009-669 du 12 juin 2009 « favorisant la diffusion et la protection de la création sur Internet » a été promulguée au Journal Officiel ce samedi 13 juin. Cette loi n'est rien d'autre que la fameuse loi Hadopi, amputée des articles censurés par le Conseil Constitutionnel cette semaine ...

C’est la semaine des joueurs, puisque le salon E3 vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Los Angeles. Face aux échecs des versions précédentes, l’ESA (Entertainment Software Association) a décidé de revenir à la configuration d’origine, passant de 38 exposants et une surface de 3000 m² en 2008 à quelque 150 exposants et 67.000 m² cette année ...

Comme ils l’avaient annoncé, les députés socialistes, verts et communistes ont déposé un recours commun auprès du Conseil constitutionnel contre la loi Hadopi, en soulevant onze points d'inconstitutionnalité ...

15.000. Ce serait le nombre d'exemplaires vendus du jeu Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars sur Nintendo DS en France en 3 semaines, alors qu'il s'agit pourtant d'un des jeux les plus réussis sur cette console. La faute à un piratage massif ? Sans doute, mais c'est loin d'être la seule raison ...

Déjà l'édition 400... et une newsletter une nouvelle fois consacrée en grande partie à la loi Hadopi, dont le vote solennel est attendu ce 12 mai. Alors, que va nous réserver l'après-Hadopi ? Si l'on en croit la ministre de la Culture, les plates-formes légales vont, comme par miracle, connaitre une croissance vertigineuse ...

Non, je ne suis pas la première victime de la loi Hadopi, ma connexion Internet n'a pas encore été coupée. L'absence de newsletter pendant ces quelques mois était seulement due à un planning un peu compliqué depuis le début de l'année. A propos de la loi Création et Internet, le feuilleton comique du moment, il faut constater que plus le temps passe, et plus les opposants sont nombreux ...

Dans le contexte de lutte contre le piratage, il fallait oser : la page d'accueil du site Internet du Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bonneville (Haute-Savoie) a été modifié le 26 décembre dernier, pour être transformé en "Stro", autrement dit un espace de stockage hébergeant 23 Go de contenus warez (films récents, logiciels, jeux Xbox360…). Le site, qui connaissait une telle affluence qu’il était souvent inaccessible, a finalement été mis hors service ce 5 janvier, puis remis en ligne peu après ...

Première newsletter de 2009 oblige, je vous adresse tous mes vœux pour cette nouvelle année. Avant de débuter, jetons un rapide coup d'œil sur ce qui s'est passé en 2008 : un processeur Phenom d'AMD loin derrière les Core 2/Core i7 d'Intel et un Phenom X3 pitoyable, le succès du processeur Atom, une chute vertigineuse des prix des chips mémoire, un chipset nVidia GeForce 9400M réussi (mais un nForce 780i SLI pathétique), une remontée spectaculaire en termes de ratio performances/prix chez AMD avec la gamme Radeon HD 4xx0 ...