iPhone 2.0 goes live

After a frustrating week for existing iPhone owners, the 3G iPhone, complete with the version 2.0 software, has launched. Technical issues at O2 and Carphone Warehouse stores on launch day resulted in a reversal of the original plan for all iPhones to be activated in-store. Instead customers details where taken down by hand and customers were told to activate themselves at home. The Apple system coped with most activation requests, with only a handful... [Read More...]

Drobo just got even faster

Data Robotics Inc. today announced the 2nd generation model of the advanced storage device, Drobo. The new model now features Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 connectivity for faster data transfer speeds. Drobo offers a level of redundancy previously not available to smaller organisations, by utilising its own ‘BeyondRaid’ technology. Upto 4 physical hard drives are loaded into the Drobo and the on-board processor assigns approximately 1/4... [Read More...]

MobileMe launches ahead of Live Mesh

Apple have announced that the revamped .Mac service called MobileMe will launch this week. The improved service incorporates ‘push technology’ and is advertised as “Exchange for the rest of us”. Aimed squarely at the non-corporate user, the service provides real-time synchronisation of email, contacts, calendar and files between multiple devices such as your PC, Mac or iPhone. Current .Mac users are hoping that the service... [Read More...]

Email scams aimed at UK users

Anti-virus and Internet security experts McAfee recently conducted an interesting experiment concerning spam email. They requested volunteers from around the world to set up an email mailbox for one month, specifically to attract spam and junk emails, in order to analyse the results. As you would expect, very soon the mailboxes became flooded with a wide variety of spam emails, with one UK volunteer receiving 5,414 junk messages over the course... [Read More...]