tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226502192011-07-28T15:30:51.367-07:00Technology News, opinions, analysis and Blog from Gigaware™, the UK technology and software firm.Gigaware teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923181571684189108noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22650219.post-1157020215826504312006-08-31T03:28:00.000-07:002006-08-31T03:30:15.830-07:00

Microsoft has confirmed that Japanese firm Toshiba will make its portable media player - "Zune" - to be released before the end of the year.Toshiba's filing with the Federal Communications Commission showed the Zune will have a 30-gigabyte hard-disk drive and wireless connection.Microsoft declined to provide any further product details.Analysts expect Microsoft's Zune to compete directly with

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Norwich is pioneering a free wi-fi project which covers three sectors of the UK city and its centre.The £1.1m, 18-month pilot has been live for three weeks and is backed by the East of England Development Agency.Paul Adams, from Norfolk county council said: "It allows people to see the benefit of wireless technology."The city centre, county hall and educational establishments such as the

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A picture taken moments after a bomb exploded on a number 30 bus in London's Tavistock Square on 7 July 2005 has won the first citizen journalism award.Second prize went to a shot of the Buncefield oil terminal fire taken by a passenger in a plane.The awards, set up by Nokia and the UK Press Gazette, aim to highlight images shot by citizens witnessing events.The popularity of camera phones means

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A Spanish firm is to sell subsidised routers as part of a plan to turn domestic wi-fi networks into public hotspots.Fon will sell wi-fi routers, which allow people to surf the net wirelessly, for $5 (£2.75).The company, which has financial backing from Google and Skype, aims to create public wi-fi networks street by street across the US and Europe."Wi-fi is universal in cities, but access isn't,"

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There has been mush mystery, and speculation about what excactly a keystroke logger is, and what problems it can caused, and just how advanced they are, and what form they come in (e.g. software or hardware).What is a keystroke logger?A keystroke logger is a piece of software, that captures keystrokes of a user while they are typing on their PC, there are many definitions for KeyStroke loggers,

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Next time you find yourself talking on your mobile phone in the middle of a thunderstorm you may want to cut the conversation short.UK doctors have warned of the danger of lightning strikes when using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather.In the British Medical Journal, they highlight the case of a teenager left with severe injuries after being struck by lightning when talking on her

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Social networking website MySpace.com plans to introduce restrictions on how adults contact teenagers on the site.The changes aim to make it more difficult for users more than 18 years old to befriend 14 and 15 year olds that they did not previously know.A 14-year-old girl in the US is currently suing the site after she said she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old who she met on MySpace.The

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A football tournament played by teams of robots has kicked off in Germany.The 10th annual RoboCup, being held in Bremen, will see more than 400 teams of robots dribbling, tackling and shooting in an effort to become world champions.Machines compete in 11 leagues including those designed for humanoid and four-legged robots.The organisers of the tournament hope that in 2050 the winners of the

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If you created something that is used billions of times every day by millions of people, you might expect it to be around for a long time to come.Yet Dr Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the net's Domain Name System (DNS), entertains few illusions about the longevity of his creation.If ever your computer needs help finding out where a. com, .uk or any other website is on the net, the DNS is the

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The future of mobileMobile phone technology is advancing rapidly, but what can people expect to be using in 2015? What will their mobile be able to do and what will it look like? Nokia has collaborated with Industrial Design students from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London to come up with some ideas. Multi-sensoryKimberly HuThe device works with the sense of smell, sight,

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EBay is to launch keyword advertising - where internet users will be directed to specific auctions linked to words on the web page they are visiting.Under the plan, site owners hosting the adverts for the online auctioneer will get a slice of the product sale price.Called AdContext, EBay's new system may prove popular with blog site publishers who would be able to use it as an extra generator of

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Heres somethign were really proud of; Gigaware™ has won theBA Silver Crest Award! A highly regarded award within the science and technology industry.News story taken from gigaware.co.uk;Yesterday Gigaware™ and one of the programmers working on a Gigaware™ software project was presented with theBA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Silver Crest Award, a highly regarded award

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We have, at last, finished building Type Safe, the new security software that allows you to track what people on your PC are doing, and what they are typing, or what conversations they may be having.Type Safe does this by logging all the keystrokes made on the PC, when someone presses a key on the keyboard.This is ideal for tracking where your kids are going online, what instant message

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One of our news channels is set to change in the comming months, instead o just providing current affairs, and enteratinment, the site will be completly revemamped, and will be promoted under the idea of 'web connected services from Gigaware™'.This change comes at a time when Kangola explorer 3 is nearing completion, and a huge redevelopment of Kangola is underway to help all the kangola services

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Four leading US technology companies have been accused of helping China to subdue political strife in return for access to its internet market.The accusation was levelled against Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco Systems and Google at a Congressional hearing on the ethics of doing business in China.US Lawmakers last month accused them of giving into pressure from the Chinese government by censoring

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Today we improved Kangola Explorer 3, and added a new funtion that aims to provide an easier way to listen to the Radio on your PC.Kangola Explorer 3 will now allow you to listen to any radio station that has an internet broadcast URL. You can choose from some of our preset radio stations, or you will be able to find radio station broadcast URLs from our directory of radio station URLs that we

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US politicians have launched a fresh bid to stop overseas internet gambling sites reaching American users.The move comes in the shape of a new bill being introduced in the House of Representatives with support from both Republican and Democrat members.The bill aims to extend existing laws that ban interstate telephone gambling.It would, however, fall foul of a World Trade Organization ruling last

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Welocome to the official blog, we thought we would start one, just because it seems that everyone else is doing it, and we thought we would join in the 'fun'.We will bring all the latest technology news, alerts, updates, and new of our own projects, and progress with our many web services and software products, as well as many other things, such as our new betas, and any other developments we

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Mac users are being warned about what has been described as one of the first viruses for Apple's OS X software.The malicious program, known as Leap-A, tries to spread via Apple's iChat instant messaging program. The worm disguises itself as images of Apple's forthcoming version of its operating system, called Leopard, and plunders buddy lists if installed.Security firms said Leap-A was not

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