http://portal.itproportal.com/ The Portal. 60 <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/08/27/microsoft-pulls-on-firefoxs-tail/" target="_blank">I was amused to read this morning </a>that Microsoft has officially released details of the Beta 2 edition of Internet Explorer 8.0, following <em>&quot;leaks&quot; </em>appearing all over t'Internet this week. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/microsoft-releases-details-ie-80-beta-2/ Steve Gold <em>You want to hear something funny? </em>A storm has broken out between a sex store owner and the Los Angeles council over the council's refusal to allow an Internet cafe-style licence to a sex store. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/sex-store-sues-la-county-over-internet-access/ Steve Gold All the recent Netbooks have been the product of classic laptop production chains : Asus, MSI, Dell, Acer and so on but LG's entrance in the Netbook market could herald a brand new threat to the laptop segment. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/lgs-x110-netbook-open-mobile-phone-manufacturers-flood-gates/ Desire Athow Gary McKinnon, who has been credited with the biggest military computer hack of all time, has seen his bid to fight extradition to the US crushed after the European Court of Human rights rejected his appeal Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/eu-human-rights-court-rejects-mckinnon-appeal-against-us-extradition/ Desire Athow Microsoft is readying a mouse that uses a blue LED rather than red lasers because the former can be used on a greater number of surfaces; this would mark the fourth great revolution in the way mice have evolved over the past few decades or so Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/microsoft-debut-no-laser-blue-led-computer-mouse/ Desire Athow Advertising has turned out to be the major source of generating revenues for the Telecom Carriers across the globe, a research from the analyst firm Gartner revealed Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/advertising-worth-gbp-6-billion-telecom-companies-2011/ Desire Athow Mozilla&rsquo;s endeavours of snatching some significant market share are quite apparent in its recent product releases, and in the same line, the company has rolled out its first working prototype of its Ubiquity application, which helps in combining data in the web browser Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/mozillas-ubiquity-brings-back-command-line-browser/ Desire Athow In its response to Apple&rsquo;s lawsuit for manufacturing Mac replicas, Miami based Psystar, has strike back with a counter lawsuit over the Apple, accusing that the company&rsquo;s licensing policies are not in line with the US anti-trust laws Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/mac-clone-maker-psystar-countersues-apple-over-licensing-policies/ Desire Athow The soaring popularity of Firefox browser, has caused Microsoft to bring upon necessary modifications in its very own internet browsing application, Internet Explorer, as the software behemoth has released the new &ldquo;beta&rdquo; test version of its Internet Explorer 8, with a range of user-friendly attributes Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/internet-explorer-8-beta-2-introduces-private-browsing-functionality/ Desire Athow A Primary version of Google&rsquo;s much touted mobile phone platform, Android SDK, has appeared on the web, with a couple of subtractions from its original menu Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/google-android-platform-misses-google-talk-and-bluetooth-features/ Desire Athow It could have been the biggest security cyberheist of all times with fears that up to eight million records being compromised as news emerged on Sunday that Best Western Hotel group central customer database had been breached Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/best-western-security-breach-hack-fright-turns-murkier/ Desire Athow <p>Is installing new, more efficient equipment good for the environment?<br /><br />&nbsp;</p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/credit-crunch-good-environment/ Alex Rabbetts <p>From its announcement in February, Nokia's N96 has been a drawn out pre-launch</p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/whats-point-nokias-n96/ Tim Belfall Meeting madness - how can we make them more effective and cut down on the unnecessary company gatherings Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/how-improve-your-effectiveness-and-make-most-meeting-madness/ Uwe Richter <p>The growth in globalisation has impacted on the type of relationships vendors have with their Channel</p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/28/globalisation-how-trend-has-affected-way-vendors-interact-channel/ Nick Rowley A Finnish firm is marketing an interesting add-on for Visa credit and debit cards - <a href="http://www.thewisemarketer.com/briefs/archive.asp?action=read&amp;bid=3048" target="_blank">a 2D barcode that is added to the card for loyalty purposes.</a> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/card-issuer-adds-2d-barcodes-visa-cards/ Steve Gold <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200838&amp;subSection=Enterprise+Applications" target="_blank">Reports are coming in</a> that Internet Explorer 8.0 - <em>which is apparently alpha testing amongst the chosen few</em> - will have some excellent privacy features when it ships in its gold code version towards the<br /> end of the year. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/microsoft-discovers-privacy-internet-explorer-80/ Steve Gold Version 2.0.2 of Apple's iPhone Firmware allows anybody to break into a given iPhone within a few seconds as long as they have physical access to the phone Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/apples-iphone-password-protection-almost-worthless-broken-10-seconds/ Desire Athow A virus known as W32.TGammima.AG has made it to the International Space station, 350 kilometers above our heads, last June according to a report released by the NASA Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/international-space-station-laptop-infected-earthly-malware/ Desire Athow HTC have been remiss of late with the simpler version of Microsoft Mobile. The announcement of the HTC S740 brings the moribund platform back into focus Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/long-time-coming-new-microsoft-mobile-standard-handset/ Tim Belfall In its effort to offer a more interactive and user-oriented search platform, Google would start providing real-time suggestions to the web searchers for their diverse search queries Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/google-offers-suggest-feature-main-search-page/ Desire Athow No, your iPhone doesn't allow you to surf all parts of the internet, contrary to what their advert say - this led the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ask Apple to can the current advert after coming to the conclusion that Apple's claims were false Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/misleading-apple-iphone-ad-pulled-after-advertising-watchdog-ruling/ Desire Athow If you have missed any episode of your favourite show on BBC&rsquo;s online series, then there isn&rsquo;t much to worry about, as BBC has announced &lsquo;series stacking&rsquo; services, scheduling to start somewhere in mid September, which allows its users to watch any episode from its online series, running through iPlayer Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/bbc-iplayer-keeps-favourite-shows-longer-adds-series-stacking/ Desire Athow Launch of smartphones for professionals and business users, seems to be the flavour of the month, as after the Palm Inc.&rsquo;s Treo Pro, HTC has rolled out its S740 slider phone to lure the business segment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/htc-launches-slider-aware-smartphone-s740/ Desire Athow In its attempt of addressing the soaring issues of call dropping and poor 3G reception with the iPhone, Apple's unofficial Dev Team (so they call themselves) has introduced the Pwnage version 2.0.3, which is said to extend support to iPhone/iPod software 2.0.2 5C1 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 http://portal.itproportal.com/articles/2008/08/27/apples-iphone-gets-pwnage-203-jailbreaking-iphone-202/ Desire Athow