Text goes to the wall

A UK company has developed a digital post-it note that can display text messages sent to it via SMS. The txTboard is designed to be hung from a wall, or in the tradition of note sharing stuck on a fridge, and features a colour touch screen to display text messages sent from mobile phones. Although the technology was developed with the aim of making it easier for households to leave messages for each other, it is not difficult to see how the ability to send a message to a particular place rather than a person could prove useful in an office environment. ...more

Xingtones undercuts ringtone personalisation

Ringtones are cool, right? You pay ?4 for a bit of tune that makes a personal statement about you every time it goes off: 'I'm a mug'. You can pay 79p for a whole song from the majority of online music services that you can listen to when you want to, not each time you get a call. So, Xingtones has developed a little application that you can use to cut your favourite section of your favourite song and use it as a ringtone for ?1. ...more

New version of Korgo sets about LSASS vulns

The Korgo Win32 network worm has reached its seventh generation: Korgo-G is beginning to spread. Sophos has announced that it has received several reports of this worm in the wild. Like its predecessors, Korgo-G uses the LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) exploit to propagate itself - stack-based buffer overflows can enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. ...more

Carphone Warehouse launches broadband TalkTalk

Carphone Warehouse has launched a new TalkTalk combined broadband and landline phone service that costs ?20.99 per month. Available to around 70 per cent of the UK population, the package comprises unlimited local and national landline calls, 24 hours a day; unlimited international landline calls to 28 countries, 24 hours a day; and up to 8Mbps broadband access. ...more

A cutting edge card from nVIDIA

When nVIDIA showed off their Ultra reference board we were less than impressed. Many technical Web sites went weak at the knees for the card that demanded a 1GHz processor to support its power hungry rush for speed (and actually had a device driver available). But we looked at it and saw that a GTS card was still a viable purchase, especially with older processors, as long as you had 128Mb RAM. ...more