According to a vague article at SC Magazine , use of the latest NVidia graphics cards can accelerate WPA Wi-Fi "password recovery" times "by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent." The article fails to provide a baseline hack time,

Ahead of the February transition to all-digital television, Comcast is lending analog consumers a hand by offering free cable to customers who sign up for digital services. Analog customers who sign up for any Comcast digital cable service (VoIP, broadband)

Customers have been plenty annoyed by the sharp hike in SMS and MMS message fees to twenty cents each direction, netting wireless carriers massive profits ($1300 per MB by some estimates ). Now content carriers and developers of SMS alert

The 10,000 person town of Monticello, Minnesota wanted to build a fiber network because they weren't being well serviced by regional incumbent, TDS Telecom. As we've explored countless times over the years, that company then did what threatened companies do

Back in July, we noted that AT&T, Verizon and Qwest joined forces to create a new alliance that makes it easier for people who are moving to transfer their landline and broadband services between companies. Collectively they also launched a

It's Friday, so take off your shoes, put up your feet, and empty your head into the comment section below.

In the face of a sluggish economy, some Wall Street analysts are predicting that AT&T will miss their target of a million U-Verse customers installed by the end of the year. In a note to investors, Daniel Amir, a director

User en102 writes in to note that Bell Canada and Telus (both currently CDMA 1x/EVDO carriers in Canada) plan to overlay their networks with UMTS/HSPA networks , and ultimately embrace LTE. The shift will cost hundreds of millions of dollars,

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Photokina 2008 epilogue : The huge imaging event of this year has come to an end. After an entire Photokina week, we look back on an interesting show. Not so much because of all the 'news', since most of the

If you are a customer of Barclays Bank, security researchers have warned you to look out for a new phishing scam.

The government has posted further information on the Directgov website about how the public should react to major incidents.

If you fancy yourself as a TV presenter, you can win a chance to shine at the MTV Europe Music Awards in an online competition.

If you fancy yourself as a soap opera star Chalkhill is holding auditions over the next month for new roles in the web drama.

You can now download programmes from the BBC iPlayer onto several handheld devices including the Nokia N96 and the Archos 605.

Rumours about a new Apple 'netbook' are circulating on the web following an event invitation sent out by the Californian company.

Friday Yahoo investor: sell to Microsoft for $22 a share C|Net reports the Lenovo S10 netbook is here, count me in TG Daily: tech mergers ahead? and Sanyo develops 12x, 100GB Blu-ray...

AMD and Nvidia have beefed up their integrated graphics chipsets to offer decent gaming performance and Blu-ray decode acceleration. We take Intel's latest G45 Express for a spin to see if it can keep up with the graphics giants.

As the credit crisis deepens and stocks plummet, it's not just financial institutions that are struggling for their survival. The Consumerist reports that, after a series of major blows, Circuit City may now be facing bankruptcy. Within the last few

Surprise, surprise. Barely two weeks after announcing plans to shut down its digital-rights-management authentication servers, Walmart has backpedaled. Engadget says the company has sent customers an e-mail to announce that the DRM servers will be staying up for the time