Tomas Mowlam
Tom is a young technology journalist based in London. Though a diehard Windows user, if pressed he will admit to quite liking Apple products – he just doesn’t get on with touchscreens.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 review
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Gloomy nerds have been predicting the death of Dreamweaver for over two years now. The rise of open source content management systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal apparently means that site building programs like Dreamweaver have had their day. Pffft! Dreamweaver is back, better and still just as useful as ever. What we like most [...]
Finland gets legal right to 1Mbps ‘net, UK jealous
Thursday, July 1, 2010
The Finnish government announced today that its citizens were now legally entitled to an affordable 1Mbps broadband connection across the country. Tomas Mowlam gets sulky that the UK is so far behind.
McAfee unveils cloud-based business protection
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Tomas Mowlam reports on the new McAfee SaaS (Software as a Service) Web Protection, offering better reporting, simplified controls and capable of unlimited expansion.
HP unveils classroom friendly Mini 100e netbook
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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
HP unveils new Compaq business all-in-one
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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 [...]
