Online spending in the UK reached a record high of £4.5bn in January, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. The figure suggests that every person in the UK spent £74 online during the month, a year-on-year increase of

The US military has successfully shot down one of its own satellites that was falling to Earth without direction. The spy satellite was launched in December 2006 but a systems failure meant that it was unable to establish control links

Canadian police have arrested 17 people suspected of running the country's largest and most damaging hacker network. The Sûreté du Québec and Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested people in 12 locations in a co-ordinated series of dawn raids. The gang

Toshiba has launched two tiny camcorders capable of shooting high-definition video and storing it on an integrated hard disk The top-of-the-range Gigashot A series, measuring just 7.81 x 13.54x 7.9cm, shoots interlaced MPEG-4/H.264 video at 1080i resolution and boasts a

Downloading files from the internet using ftp rather than Internet Explorer can be much faster. FileZilla is great for this and for posting web pages. FileZilla will remember passwords for ftp sites and handles all of the commands for transfering

This is the software publisher's description. Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your

There are many image and photo editors on the market, from the commercial Aperture or Adobe Lightroom, through to the many freeware alternatives. Some are well designed; some are not so well designed. As a basic rule, they need to

This is the software publisher's description . Unfortunately, most firewalls leak. But Comodo's Firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put our firewall

We go out and buy media suites thinking that we'll create our own home movies, add effects, then burn them to DVD and give to our friends and family. These media suites easily cost up to £50 and are everything

Chris Wiles, vnunet.com, Thursday 21 February 2008 at 00:00:00 Backup your DVDs to your PC Most of us have an extensive DVD collection. If you wait a short while after the release of a blockbuster DVD, you'll soon find they

We tend to overly rely on our anti-spyware and security software. For instance, we download the latest commercial security tool and then setup the application to automatically scan for Trojans and spyware that may have installed on our system, at