Spam Reaches The Big 30 – Here’s Predicting Another 30
May 3, 2008
The scourge of the Internet has reached a major milestone in its life. The first ever unsolicited email was sent way back in1978, on 3rd May, to 400 people. The email was advertising a company known as DEC, a computer manufacturer that is no longer in existence. Unfortunately, spam not only lives on but continues to grow in strength.
The BBC website has a cracking list of statistics to depress every email user on the planet. Email scamsters made more than £120m last year with more than three quarters of all successful scams being delivered by junk email. Nearly 85% of all email sent is spam, equivalent to more than 100 billion obnoxious messages every single day.
While unsolicited email has been around for 30 years, the term Spam was only coined in 1993 by a Usenet administrator, who took his inspiration from a Monthy Python sketch.
While spam is predominantly seen as being a major nuisance, it can and does often harbour more serious and underhand intent. Fraudsters and scamsters use spam email as a means to unlawfully gain information, or to perpetrate the downloading of infected files onto user’s computers.
Toshiba L350-10L Laptop Review And Specification
May 2, 2008
Toshiba L350-10L
Only £399 with free home delivery
This is a fantastic Toshiba laptop at a very reasonable price! With a large memory for a first class performance and a 17″ widescreen, the L350 10L is perfect for watching all your favourite movies and is more than capable of taking on the workload of the family or office. As it is a Toshiba you know you are getting quality and this is a great price.
3 Lowers Mobile Broadband Modem Price To £49.99
May 1, 2008
Mobile broadband dongles offer an excellent method of connecting to the Internet and bring truly wireless networks to reality. 3 has made the prospect even more appealing by reducing the price of their Pay As You Go dongle from the original £99.99 to £49.99 – an impressive price reduction no matter how you cut it.
Pay As You Go customers buy add-ons that range from £10 to £25 and provide the user with a one month download allowance. £10 buys 1GB, £15 buys 3GB, and £25 buys 7GB. Considering the technology is still relatively new, the prices don’t look that unattractive to those that have a real need to be able to connect to the Internet while on the move.
Alternatively, Pay Monthly deals are available, which include the dongle free of charge. The standard Pay Monthly tariff costs £15 per month and offers a 3GB allowance. The monthly costs are actually identical to the Pay As You Go costs but you do get the dongle for free.
And I’m sure you’ll all be pleased to hear that even though the USB Modems aren’t the ugliest thing introduced, you can also buy skins to customise them – skins are currently offered at two for the price of one.
Twist And Browse with The Force?
April 20, 2008
Flicking your wrists is too barbaric. And sliding your fingers is so 2007. Welcome to the new wave in “active input” technology: The Force.
Microsoft’s research department has been experimenting with a pliable form of input commands that involves using force to bend, twist, push and pull your device. While the prototype was used primarily for web browsing, the responses can be programmed to carry out any on-screen action.
The research report says this new technology is capable of synergizing with other forms of “active input” (they really like that phrase), which is great for those of us who are already getting used to making the alligator-fingers motion on the iPhone.
Here’s a hypothetical situation of how I’ll soon read my morning news:
I double tap the browser icon on the screen to open up my New York Times homepage, and twist the unit until I reach the editorials. Nothing interests me so I fold the device inwards to go back to the front page. I slide my finger upwards on the screen until I reach an article on the latest predictions in oil futures. There’s a graph so I have to zoom in by sliding my fingers apart, the results are infuriating. At that moment, I get an instant message from an old friend who asks me how I’m doing. I respond by squeezing the device until a mad-face emoticon is sent. Now, where’s my coffee?
Packard Bell SJ51-B-008 Laptop Review And Specification
April 11, 2008
Packard Bell SJ51-B-008 Laptop for the Home and Office for £379.99
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Outstanding laptop from Packard Bell, providing all you need to run your day to day tasks on the move. Includes AMD Athlon 64×2 Processor TK57 and Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium. The 120 GB hard drive can hold up to 30,000 songs or 75,000 photos. The 2 GB memory ensures demanding applications run with ease and the 17″ widescreen allows you to watch your favourite movies.
Advent 9515 Laptop for the Home and Office Review And Specification
April 11, 2008
Advent 9515 Laptop for the Home and Office for £379.97
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Daily challenges are made easy with the Advent 9515. The generous 160 GB hard drive stores your multimedia files with ease. It also 2 Gb of Ram which is the perfect amount to run windows Vista at full capability. These advent laptops have proven to be solid in the past and this model is great on specification and even better on price.
Acer 5720 Laptop for £349.97
April 11, 2008
Acer 5720 Laptop for £349.97
The Acer 5720 is the perfect everyday laptop, more than capable of meeting all your computing needs. With 2 GB memory enjoy the freedom of running multi applications with ease.
This is a great price for a home or office based laptop solution, with 2 GB of ram and a 80 GB hard drive it will satisfy the needs of most families or businesses. The only thing this laptop is not built for is gaming, so if you want that you might need to spend a little more.
HP Laptop DV9702EA Specification and Pictures
April 8, 2008
HP Laptop DV9702EA - Now £499.99 Great Value Laptop under £500
I have always been a fan of HP laptops, I am in-fact writing this post on one right now! So when I found this great deal on the HP DV9702EA I had to take a look. On first inspection you will notice that this laptop looks beautiful as it has the very popular HP inprint design, however, the shininess is not the best feature of thedv 9702.
Toshiba Satellite X205 Revealed | Full Specification
April 8, 2008
Toshiba have released the new satellite X205 laptop. It is built purely for gaming and understandibly has a specification to match. The new X205 laptops retail from 1,449.99 but as with any new laptop expect the price to drop over the coming months.
Toshiba are renowned for their high powered laptops and this one is no acception, it boasts a 17 inch widescreen, 3 Giga bytes of ram, geforce 8600m graphics as well as the new Pentium Penryn processor and huge dual hard drives.
The laptop looks pretty neat too!
Here are some of the specs from the base model:
17 inch wide-screen
Intel Penryn Processor
Nvidia Geforce 8600 M graphics
3 GB Ram
Dual hard drives ranging from 320GB to 400 GB
1.3 Mega pixel web camera
Harmon Kardon speakers
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and 802.11 Wi-Fi connectivity
In built fingerprint reader
DVD SuperMulti drive (with Labelflash labelling system)
ASUS X53SR Laptop Review And Specification
March 12, 2008
ASUS X53SR Laptop for the Home and Office
Price - £399.97
Save - £350
The ASUS X53SR is a great all round laptop, with a powerful Intel Core 2 Duo Processor for superb performance, & a great graphics card providing an excellent viewing experience.
