http://www.officereview.co.uk Office product reviews: Office equipment, computer hardware & software. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:57:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At Display 2008 exhibition in Tokyo last week Sony unveiled an OLED (organic light emitting diode) screen that is just 0.2 millimetres thick. The thinnest screen ever developed, it was showcased as a 3.5 inch panel screen with QVGA resolution (320x240 pixels). It started out life as a normal OLED ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/21/sony-unveils-ultrathin-oled-screen/ A group of Chinese hackers has called off a planned attack on the CNN website after fears that their plan had been foiled. The hackers' plan to attack at the weekend ended up being widely reported across the web after The Dark Visitor, a Chinese hacking website, revealed the plan on ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/21/foiled-chinese-plan-to-bust-cnn-website/ As anticipated the price of the iPhone as dropped as has happened in Germany and the US. The Uk network provider O2 and the Carphone Warehouse have cut the price of Apple's iPhone by £100 and the 8GB is now available for £169, although the recent 16GB model will not be ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/18/o2-cuts-prices-on-the-iphone/ According to technology consultancy Detica many UK banks do not have the technology in order to comply with new codes on consumer debt management. The UK voluntary Banking Code means that both banks and building societies must offer greater personal support consumers heading into debt problems, initially beginning with the identification ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/18/data-analysis-the-key-for-uk-banks/ Google has reported a profit of US$1.31 billion for the first three months of 2008, allaying fears that online advertising revenues had been hit by the credit crunch. This represents a 31% increase in profits compared to the $1 billion made by Google in the same period last year. Net income on-year ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/18/google-silence-doomsayers-with-13bn-profit/ With the amount of people using Google Earth on a daily basis, Google has issued a update to this popular software program. The new version of Google Earth is now called Google Earth 4.3, and it offers users a better way to navigate the Earth, compared to the previous application. ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/17/new-updated-version-called-google-earth-43/ The existence of too many security companies in the market is causing information overload for IT managers, according to experts. As the security market is becoming flooded with the creation of companies like mushrooms, IT managers are becomes overloaded with security information, products and services. Check Point founder Gil Shewd has warned ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/17/competition-and-variety-hurting-security/ With Tesco announcing record profits, it was actually the company’s Internet sales that was its star performer. Internet sales increased by 31 per cent in 2007 to £1.6bn, whilst profit was up 40 per cent on the year before to £124m, as the supermarket now boasts one million online customers, ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/17/tesco%e2%80%99s-financial-resulted-boosted-by-technology/ Google, the online industry's popular search engine, revealed a surprise today when it went against the current economic recession data and posted an increase in revenue for the first quarter. Google stated that profits were up by thirty-one percent. Results from a huge earnings showed that the first quarter ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/17/google-stuns-with-profit-earnings/ A survey has found that almost half the internet's users in the UK and the US use the same password for all their internet accounts, whilst 12% of users have illegally logged on to another person's unsecured wireless connection. Having the same password for all accounts puts users at extra risk ... http://www.officereview.co.uk/2008/04/17/internet-users-prone-to-risk-taking/