Can whatever keep the Computer? The industry is giving it all it's got - ultrabooks, quicker chips - but up to now, not anything's operating. Shipment increase for Pcs has cratered, falling by way of the biggest percent year-on-12 months for eleven years as clients, corporations and Computer manufacturers hit
Read MoreThe National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected. Intelligence officials investigating the former contractor, who leaked thousands of documents to media outlets including the Guardian last year, determined
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If you are buying a laptop for a specific purpose, then you need to make sure that it does the job. In this case, the best source of advice would be economics department staff at the university you're going to attend. You may need to run specific business software for
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I don't know of any live malware attacking Mac OS X, so you probably don't need either anti-virus or anti-malware software at the moment. However, this does not mean you shouldn't run it. If you are a home user, you don't have to care what happens to your data, but
Read MoreWhat are the best, reasonably inexpensive hardware and/or software solutions to improve a PC’s crappy sound? We find the audio of TV programmes hard on our ears, bass too loud, and the high notes are several db lower than normal due to our age. We use our PCs to listen
Read MoreSchools are being sold software to monitor pupils’ internet activity for extremism-related language such as “jihadi bride” and “YODO”, short for you only die once. Several companies are producing “anti-radicalisation” software to monitor pupils’ internet activity ahead of the introduction of a legal requirement on schools to consider issues of terrorism
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The response to our stories about people being scammed by cold calls from Indian call centres has been remarkable. (A quick reminder: people get cold-called and told there's a "problem with your computer" and talked into handing over remote access, and then £185 or so for "remote support". It's not
Read More‘Why are we not doing more to have coding colleges and technical, vocational education alongside university education?” This question, raised by Labour’s Yvette Cooper during an interview with the Observer in May, reflects a wide concern about the availability and equality of software training, an area with a reputation for
Read MoreAn unprecedented systems' failure was responsible for the air traffic control chaos that affected airports across London and south-east England on Friday. Nats, the company responsible for controlling British airspace, on Saturday gave the first detailed explanation of the problem at its national centre in Swanwick, Hampshire, that resulted in dozens
Read MoreUS and British intelligence organizations have efficiently cracked a lot of the online encryption relied upon through loads of hundreds of thousands of humans to guard the privateness in their private information, on line transactions and emails, consistent with top-secret documents found out by means of former contractor Edward Snowden. The
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