Social Hacking in the News and in Your Office

Social engineering/hacking can be both the means for compromising individual or corporate private data, and the means of generating after-the-fact attempts at compromise. One of the most common means of attack is getting someone to use an infected USB flash drive in their networked computer. I did this (without any malware) just 2 days ago….

The Modern Day Car: A Sophisticated High Tech Gadget

Little did Mr. Ford know that the little black buggy he was making back in the early 90’s would a 100 years later be as sophisticated as the cars of today. Modern day cars are extremely complicated and high tech with some having the computing power greater than the first space shuttle which carried Neil…

High Tech Bathrooms – Seeing is Believing

A bathroom is no longer just a place to wash up. It’s also a place to watch television, get caught up on work, sing in the shower, get a relaxing water jet massage, and meditate. It’s like the bathroom has become a multifunctional space that seeks to cater for a huge range of our lifestyle…

Is New Tech a Gamble?

2009 was the worst year of the millennium for venture investment within Europe according to the Dow Jones tracking site VentureSource, with IT investments falling below €1 billion for the first time. Venture capitalists invested €3.2 billion in 916 deals last year, a 41 percent drop from the €5.1 billion put into 1,234 deals in…

The Progression of Quake III Arena

Quake III became the pinnacle of multi-player online action and was released back in late December 1999 and is still going well nearly 10 years on. It was developed by the American computer game developer giants ID Software and became the game to have across the world. The idea of Quake III is a first…

New Unreal Tournament 3

Unreal Tournament 3 is the newest addition in the highly popular and top selling Unreal game franchise and the latest installment of the Unreal series following Unreal Tournament 2004, which is still considered to be the best game in the series by many die-hard players. The game, which was created by Epic Games includes a…