24th January 2009 Archive

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Google Analytics crippled by autoimmune disease

Updated Prefers Hotmail to Gmail

You have no interest in using Google Gmail? You're not alone. Google Analytics feels much the same way. Hugh Abbott, a London-based IT consultant, runs Google Analytics on behalf of several clients, generating detailed reports on the traffic hitting their websites. Naturally, there are times when he's interested in sharing …

Applications 24 Jan 00:08
Samsung posts first-ever quarterly loss

22bn won gone down memory drain

There's more gloomy financial news from the tech sector today with Samsung reporting its first-ever quarterly loss. The coffers of world's largest maker of memory chips sprang a leak in its fourth quarter under pressure of collapsing prices in memory and LCD displays as well as slowing demand from the global recession. …

Financial News 24 Jan 00:28
25 years of Mac - the good, the bad, and the cheese grater

Opinion Confessions of a dangerous fanboi

On Saturday, January 24th, the Apple Macintosh turns 25. Over the short history of personal computing, no machine has inspired so much love and so much loathing, so many fanatical fans and so many frothing detractors. And so many opinions. So very many opinions. No doubt, you have your own. And I have mine. Here, I give you …

PCs & Chips 24 Jan 01:31
Monster.com suffers database breach deja vu

Millions (more) at risk

For the second time in 18 months, employment search site Monster.com has lost a wealth of personal data belonging to millions of job seekers after its database was illegally accessed. The Massachusetts-based website is warning all its customers that their names, birth dates, phone numbers, user IDs and passwords, email …

Security 24 Jan 01:37
Extreme porn law goes live - are you ready?

Is it or isn't it? A survival guide to your hard disk

Unless you happen to have been living on Mars for the last year or so, you probably know that this week (January 26 to be precise) it will become a criminal offence (in England and Wales) to possess pictures that the government deems to be "extreme porn". You might also be aware of two diametrically opposed views on this …

Law 24 Jan 08:02
Hands on with Sony's Vaio P netbook

Video Sorry, 'lifestyle PC'

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Reg Hardware 24 Jan 09:02