Five new business computing releases from Lenovo
Rosie Khdir reports on Lenovo’s latest releases the ThinkCentre M90z desktop PC and the ThinkStation C20 andC20x workstations and the ThinkVision L2230 and L2321x wide monitors.
McAfee unveils cloud-based business protection
Tomas Mowlam reports on the new McAfee SaaS (Software as a Service) Web Protection, offering better reporting, simplified controls and capable of unlimited expansion.
McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus
Almost all of us have been lured onto an untrustworthy website at some point, perhaps thinking that it was a perfectly legitimate. That’s because hackers and fraudsters are getting better at hiding them. This is where McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus comes in; it is software that recognizes risky websites and gives you a warning. It delivers [...]
HP unveils classroom friendly Mini 100e netbook
Tomas Mowlam reports on the new HP Mini 100e - a netbook specifically designed for the classroom, spill resistant, reinforced and with Intel Atom processor, 1GB RAM and Windows or Linux OS
Acer unveils new laptops – scores of them
Tomas Mowlam rounds up the new Acer releases including updated Timeline X Series, multimedia desktop replacement the Acer Aspire AS8943G and new budget Aspire Notebooks
Dell releases a new entertainment laptop, the Inspiron R series
Rosie Khdir reports on the latest laptop release from Dell - the Inspiron R Series - a glossy and stylish new machine that has been labelled the “ideal mobile personal entertainment hub”.
HP unveils new Compaq business all-in-one
Tomas Mowlam: HP unveils the Compaq 6000 All-in-One Business PC, with Windows 7 Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo processors, up to 8GB RAM and up to 1TB hard drive/80 GB solid state drive
McAfee wins CeBIT award for innovation
McAfee has won the Innovative IT Security Award for their Endpoint Encryption product, at the annual CeBIT.AU Business Awards. The award is given for products that are “designed to enhance enterprise and IT security”. “Winning this award highlights McAfee’s position as a market leader in protecting customers from today’s threats,” said Andrew Littleproud, Managing Director, [...]
Apple includes anti-malware in OS update
Apple has included anti-malware fix to the Snow Leopard operating system, to protect from a Trojan horse. The Trojan is disguised as the iPhoto software to fool people into downloading it, but allows access to the HellRTS Trojan. Macs are traditionally safer than Windows based machines, but are not invulnerable to malware, and as they [...]
Beta of completely secure Firefox
Online privacy groups the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project have released an extension that encrypt connections to compatible websites, called HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure). The EFF says it will work with Google search, Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter amongst other. Peter Eckersley warned in an EFF blog that if “the page is [...]
