Iain Thomson in San Francisco

Iain Thomson is the US editor of V3.co.uk based in San Francisco. Iain has been a part of the V3.co.uk team since 2002 and was previously technical editor of PC Magazine, reviews editor of PC Advisor and editor of Aviation Informatics. He also appears as an occasional commentator on BBC television and radio, ITV and Bloomberg.

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Safari

Apple issues Safari security update

Version 4.0.6 fixes 16 flaws 12 Mar 2010

Gavel

Allaple malware author jailed for online attack

Estonian man gets nearly three years for revenge denial-of-service assault 12 Mar 2010

Khronos Group

Khronos Group publishes OpenGL 4.0 specs

Version 4.0 'levels the playing field' with DirectX 11, says group 11 Mar 2010

Intel Core-i7

Intel shows off first six-core desktop processor

Core i7-980X Extreme Edition aimed at workstations and gamers 11 Mar 2010

Piracy

European Parliament rebels over ACTA secrecy

Chamber votes by huge majority to make negotiations public 11 Mar 2010

Bill Gates

Gates reduced to world's second richest man

Poor old Bill cedes top place to Carlos Slim 11 Mar 2010

Twitter

Twitter takes action on spammers and scammers

Company to screen all links for dodgy sites 10 Mar 2010

Charles Thacker [photo: Marcin Wichary]

Microsoft researcher lands Turing Award

Charles Thacker scoops technology Nobel 10 Mar 2010

EMC

EMC claims to halve storage needs

Celerra Plug-Ins for VMware Environments aimed at mid-range systems 10 Mar 2010

Core i7

Intel investigating fake processor shipments

Parts seller Newegg in the firing line over fake i7 sales 09 Mar 2010

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The Frontline

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Nominet Trust backs digital inclusion

The National Digital Inclusion 2010 Conference in London this week served to highlight the good work taking place to get the rest...

Silicon Valley Sleuth

Silicon Valley Sleuth

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Mississippi learns the danger of viral internet

A school in Mississippi is getting a first hand lesson in the power of the internet to take an issue and make...

Security Watchdog

Security Watchdog

Sniffing out IT security issues

Adobe Reader now targeted more than Microsoft

The percentage of targeted attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader is growing at a significant rate, outstripping Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint,...

V3.co.uk Labs

V3.co.uk Labs

The latest UK business technology: quick reviews and first impressions

Photos: Dell's new Vostro 3000 laptops

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Mac Inspector

Mac Inspector

Drills to the core of the latest Mac rumours and news

Apple removes Wi-Fi apps

It appears that Apple is up to its old tricks again and exercising some quality control over the applications available through its...

IT Sneak

IT Sneak

V3.co.uk's undercover reporter offers odds and ends from the odd end of technology.

Interactive touch-screen Kama Sutra

Wandering the halls of CeBIT in Hannover this year, belly stuffed mit Currywurst und Schnitzel (picked up the lingo, as you can...

Download Junkie

Download Junkie

Your daily dose of download discussion

Protect your PC with this freeware AV client

Modern anti-virus applications are often equipped with a number of different features to deal with...

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Samsung talks up 3D TV

The next big thing, but it will take some time

Views from the Valley, 9 March 2010

Batteries, browsers and recognition for PARC researchers

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Analysis and Reports

Continuous Availability for Microsoft SharePoint

This paper examines how to create continuous availability for Microsoft SharePoint by implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

This report looks at the challenge of information protection and control (IPC) and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices

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We look at Street View's expansion, and new rumours of...

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