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RSS spitBlackBerry Storm2: RIM's second touchscreen - this time with wi-fi
News BlackBerry-maker RIM has unveiled its second touchscreen device, the Storm2. The Storm2, announced in May this year, will be released exclusively on Vodafone's network on a £35 per month contract and will be available from 26 October,... [15 Oct 2009]
A Phased Framework for Countering VoIP SPAM
White Paper For the purpose of presenting multi-leveled anti-spit framework, they divided VoIP service domain into three independent domains as an outbound, an intermediary, and an inbound domain. The proposed framework enables... [01 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.06.09
Round-Up But Microsoft isn't the only tech company giving even the tiniest aspects of its products a spit and polish this week: Laptop maker Lenovo has had its boffins hard at work tweaking the humble keyboard for its latest line... [26 Jun 2009]
Microsoft building an Office in the cloud
News If you go into some competitive products right now and take a Word document in and then spit it out afterword, it's unrecognisable," Elop said. After years of questioning the value of web-based productivity applications,... [29 Oct 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News The things are designed to spit out your details, which could now be harvested by equipment easily available on the internet and used by criminals to produce thousands of apparently valid passports. A van carrying about... [29 Jul 2008]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment Vishing, spoofing and spit Spam on softphones and IP handsets - often called spit - has been widely reported as a future threat. If you are unlucky enough to be one of the first to ever receive an earful... [02 Apr 2007]
The biggest VoIP security threats - and how to stop them
Comment Stopping spit While the above network vulnerabilities present a very real and present danger to businesses deploying VoIP, media attention has lingered on the potential danger of spam over internet telephony, or... [22 Mar 2007]
Security key concern for VoIP rollouts
News VoIP security - which covers issues such as spit and vishing - came second, selected by 26 per cent of respondents. When it comes to rolling out voice over IP (VoIP), the top priority for businesses is call quality,... [22 Mar 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment The real-time nature of voice calls will make dealing with spit much more challenging than email spam. Spit could be generated in a similar way to email spam with botnets targeting millions of VoIP users... [09 Mar 2007]
Is Spit set to soar?
News Several other companies are also developing techniques for blocking telephony spam, including security products vendor Checkpoint, and Eyeball Networks, a Canadian company which has developed a server specifically designed to stop... [29 Jan 2007]
Robo-reporters spit out results stories
News Against a backdrop where consumers of financial news are always clamouring for speedy information to help them with stock deals, and corporations the world over are fixed on automation, Thomson says computer scribes can... [23 Aug 2006]
AOL gives IM a spit and polish
News AOL is today set to launch its new AIM Pro instant-messaging service, which features security and online meeting functions aimed at corporate users. The service, which is free for anyone to use, integrates with Microsoft Outlook's... [19 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 21
Comment Fewer people spit in the street and there are nowhere near as many bicycles. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including... [30 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 1
Comment A Chinese guest is yelling something at the top of his voice in the café while his friend is making some foul noises in preparation to spit. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking... [08 Jun 2006]
Microsoft is "as aggressive as hell", says Red Hat chief
News To make any kind of shift of direction based on the latest trend would be a mistake - the market would spit me out. Three or four years ago, open source providers enjoyed plenty of attention. Just ask Novell, which more... [01 Jun 2006]
