Do more. Do it faster. Meet The iPhone 3GS. With new features like a remarkable video camera, Voice Control and more, it’s the best iPhone yet. With 32GB, there’s also room for your favourite music and movies.

Thats right people, Vodafone have finaly released the iPhone to their customers. There are currently 5 models available;

• The Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB White
• The Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB Black
• The Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB White
• The Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Black
• The Apple iPhone 3G.

With prices starting from £30 per month and loads of contracts to choose from weather you are ready for an upgrade or just thinking about a change there is sure to be something to suit your individual needs

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It has to be said that the iPhone is probably the most modern yet complex piece of cellular equipment available on the market today. As is the case with almost all of the smart mobile devices currently available, the iPhone uses public key cryptography through code signing signatures. This is done in order to restrict the kind of applications that can be run on the device. The more cynical among us might be inclined to say that at Apple they are only interested in selling their approved applications and adds-on which earn them a healthy commission; while there are others who would hasten to point out that Apple simply doesn’t want to leave this precious piece of sophisticated equipment of theirs vulnerable to all kinds of viruses and malicious software.

Those who are unable to withstand the temptation of trying some of the more  enticing third party applications do so by “jailbreaking” their iPhone, after which it is considered ” jailbroke”, in the common vernacular.  Most iPhones survive and even benefit from the procedure, while an alarming number are left susceptible to a variety of viruses. Some of these viruses are fairly innocent, although an increasing number are alarmingly toxic.

The innocent one which goes by the name of Ikee, for reasons known only to those who developed it, changes the wallpaper on the iPhone to a picture of that well-known and not often imitated pop icon of the late nineteen eighties, Rick Astley. Anyone being “Ikeed” should accept the warning and do whatever is necessary to make sure that their iPhone is secure: the reason being that there are even more powerful and sinister worms around which will invade your private information and take advantage of it to deprive you of your hard-earned cash.

If you own an iPhone and are interested in trying some of the third party applications, you owe it to yourself as well as to your family, friends and colleagues, to make sure that your personal details as well as theirs are protected. You can do so by installing some anti-virus software and the stronger the better. Because if you don’t, in the words of Rick Astley, these worms are “never gonna give you up”.

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Computer viruses at one time could only attack our computers through e-mail attachments. It could be said that these were in the "good old days", when most home computers at least were subject to seemingly never-ending waves of spam, and an unsuspecting surfer could open a virus-infested e-mail attachment, temporarily blinded by the promise of great riches, or a weekend for two in Bognor Regis. Thankfully, these days most of the computer-owning public have become alert to the dangers of opening e-mail from unclear sources and with anti-virus software becoming increasingly sophisticated, this threat has been largely removed from our radar, only to be replaced by more sinister threats. That doesn’t mean that we should now begin to open all our e-mail attachments without fear. There are still plenty viruses out there to attack our computers through opening the wrong e-mail attachment. So here are a few tips to help the innocent and unsuspecting to recognize a potential e-mail attachment threat.

Basically, if you are not totally acquainted with the person who sent you an e-mail with an attachment, you shouldn’t open it. If the sender has advised you that a specific e-mail is on its way with a specific attachment, and then it is a risk worth taking; otherwise think twice. If the attachment is a Word files (.DOC), Excel spreadsheet (.XLS), or an image such as JPG or GIF, then you should be able to open them with confidence. If you open a Word or Excel file before proceeding too far, you should make sure that it doesn’t contain any macro files, which could disguise a virus. If the attachment is an EXE, COM or VBS file, then it should be discarded without any second thought. These are executable files and will more than likely contain a virus, which can and probably will do tremendous damage to your computer. The only defense that you can have is to never run executables that arrive via e-mail, even at the risk of offending the person that supposedly sent it.

Computer viruses have sadly moved on a great deal since the hey-day of the attachment transmitted babies of just a year or two ago. That doesn’t mean that complacency be allowed to creep in. Anyone who regularly receives e-mails and sends them needs to make sure that there is an anti-virus software installed and active on the computer. Doing so will protect them from any of the dangers of these innocent looking and tempting “to open” e-mail attachments.

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Recognized as being among the most lethal and difficult pieces of malware ever to hit the market Zeus, if not contained, will empty the back accounts of innocent people who leave themselves susceptible to this powerful yet seemingly easy-to-operate piece of software. The Zeus Trojan horse, if it succeeds in a computer, will rapidly find its way to the most sensitive of personal information, such as online bank account details, passwords and credit card numbers, and will cause havoc with the information accessed.

News of the Zeus malware first came to the authority’s attentions in the UK a few weeks ago, through information that the malware’s operators were searching for victims through the social networking sites. The Zeus Trojan horse operates in such a fashion that if it invades a computer it will cause it to forward sensitive and personal data to servers which are under the control of the hackers. Zeus has reared its ugly head in a number of forms already, with the most damaging to date being a false Facebook page that encouraged users to download a tainted software update. Two young hackers who were behind that particular scam were arrested on the 3rd of November in Manchester, and are currently being held under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act and the 2006 Fraud Act pending charges, with details of the arrests only just being released.

Zeus is what is known as a banking Trojan. While it is a measure of the determination as well as the levels of sophistication that hackers are achieving to create fraud on a massive scale, this is one of the first times that an actual web page on a social networking site has been seen to be used to infiltrate the unsuspecting computer surfer’s hard disc.

Trojans are usually distributed as attachments in email messages, yet increasingly more as software downloads masquerading as legitimate programs. Zeus has been set up to utilize a variety of different methods to steal details, including logging key stokes as a user-entered password.

The total number of computers that have attacked at some time or another by a trojan horse is almost impossible to ascertain, but thought to run to several million. The truth is that it is almost impossible to detect the Zeus Trojan software, as it can change its identity during the time that it is in operation.

Zeus often changed in order to avoid detection by anti-virus software.

Zeus is apparently being sold and distributed among the hacker fraternity, and is in great demand due to its low cost, ease of use and sophistication. Hackers buy it in a tool kit form, which can be manipulated to form a unique variant. Once the Zeus hacker succeeds in accessing either a Facebook or MySpace password, they can use the invaded account as a springboard for sending out more attacks to their friends and family. It can spread like wildfire through the entire framework, and there is evidence that it has already succeeded in doing so on several occasions.

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When it comes to some of the best free laptop deals, look no further than three mobile.

The team at three mobile have put together a superb range of free laptop deals. For one monthly payment, these deals allow you a set number of texts a month, give you a free laptop and a quota of data which can be downloaded every month and topped up when required. Additional data can be downloaded at a special rate.

And three mobile have just launched one of their best free laptop deals yet. It features a free Acer 6920G 583 laptop and forms a medium-use package for those users who like to make-use of a larger display, a bigger keyboard and some significant processing power.

With a 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor working away in the background, there won’t be any problem with the large multimedia applications. This is supported by a handsome 3GB of memory and when it comes to storage, consider that 250 GB of hard drive is on hand to cope with most of what you’ll throw at it.

The 16-inch, high definition display comes into its own when watching movies, there’s a Blue-Ray DVD drive and those users that like to enjoy their computer games, the computer has a built-in NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Card to make sure the action is spot on.

Alongside this powerful free laptop is the Broadband ZTE MF627 USB Stick Modem which gives the user of the Acer 6920G 583 laptop access to 3’s advanced mobile broadband service. You simply push the dongle into one of the free laptop’s USB ports and you can trawl the internet from almost anywhere in the U.K. Data downloads start from 5GB and go upwards from there.

And once you’ve decided on your free laptop deal, you can then have a look at 3’s vast range of inclusive talk minutes and text plans, which have been designed to accommodate most mobile users. Choose from contracts starting at six months and tariffs that begin from £9 a month. And remember that three offers a massive range of video downloads.

Those that want to take advantage of the three mobile free laptop deal, should select their computer, and then have a look at the handsets and manufacturers on offer.

What’s more, future users should not forget about the three free calls forever capability, which offers both contract and pay-as-you go customers free Skype-to-Skype with no data charges.

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BT customers can continue to benefit from the convenience of paying for and towards their BT telephone services at Post Office branches. The Post Office and BT have extended their long-standing relationship by a further three-year period, from September 2011 to the end of September 2014.

The agreement will enable BT customers to pay for their quarterly bills by cash, cheque or debit card at any of the UK’s 11,500 Post Office branches.

Also, customers can continue to save towards their quarterly bill by making regular payments using their BT payment card in Post Office branches.

John Petter, MD, Consumer, BT Retail said “BT customers have the widest of choice of payment options in the UK, which includes payment at the 11,500 Post Offices around the country where they can pay their bills or make payments towards their next bill via their BT payment card. We are delighted to continue our relationship with the Post Office and give our customers another convenient way of paying their bill. ”

Post Office marketing director Gary Hockey-Morley said: “BT customers enjoy the convenience of paying for or towards their bill at the same time as posting a parcel or buying their foreign currency at the Post Office. We are delighted to extend our long-standing and valued relationship with BT, which allows our mutual customers to continue paying at their local Post Office.”

In addition to paying bills, customers can access a wide range of other services at their local Post Office, such as banking and financial services including free cash access over the counter, travel services including travel insurance, passports and commission-free currency, and mail and postal services.

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What more can be said about the Apple iPhone 3GS; in terms of being the phone of the moment, it remains the benchmark for everyone in the industry.

Lets not beat about the bush, the Apple iPhone 3GS is pretty cool.

And Apple are pretty proud of it. It is, they claim, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. Amongst its other plus points, it features video recording, voice control and up to 32GB of storage.

And this speed and power comes across in many ways. They say that applications can be launched quickly and that web pages render in a fraction of the previous time. Email attachments can be viewed faster and if you want to while away time with the iPhone 3GS games, then the updated 3D graphics will give you a thrill.

Indeed, they claim that the Apple iPhone 3GS is up to twice as fast as the previous model, the iPhone 3G.

In terms of video, you can shoot, edit and share it, all on the iPhone 3GS. In fact, you can shoot high-quality VGE video in portrait, or landscape. And the footage can be trimmed by simply adjusting the start and end points. And you can then take your masterpiece and do a number of things with it, including sharing it in an email, posting it to your MobileMe gallery, whack it up on YouTube, or sync it back to your Mac, or PC, via iTunes.

For still pictures, the Apple iPhone 3GS comes complete with a 3 megapixel camera which has the added benefit of a built-in autofocus facility and a new feature which allows you to tap the display to focus on an object of your choice.

The phone’s voice control feature recognises the names in your Contacts and also knows the music on your iPod. The phone also has a built-in digital compass and, very cleverly, automatically reorients the maps so as to match the direction the user is facing.

The Apple iPhone 3GS can also cut, copy and paste words and photos; and sometimes do that between applications. This, for example, allows you to copy and paste images and content from the web.

It also boasts an intelligent software keyboard (rotating the phone provides a larger keyboard); an advanced message suite (allowing you to send messages with text, video, pictures, audio, locations and contact information; a sophisticated search facility (across all parts of the phone); brilliant web surfing features via its internet tethering facility; voice memo; links to YouTube; and, the increasingly popular App tore which will provide thousands of new and clever applications.

All in all, the Apple iPhone 3GS is close to being the ultimate mobile phone.

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Will there, won’t there be a Microsoft phone?

Confused? Well, perhaps a number of questions will be answered when the new Microsoft phone – allegedly know as the Zune Phone, to join all those snazzy Zune MP3 players – hits the market sometime in 2009; maybe Christmas.

For some reason the software giant based in Seattle has been very coy about details about the Microsoft Phone and for years rumours have been flying backwards and forwards. But, despite the cloak of secrecy, details have been slipping out.

Firstly, it will join the Zune family of devices and services that Microsoft hope will offer a tangible threat to Apple and its family of multimedia devices that have captured the title of ‘cool.’

Apple and Microsoft have had this sort of battle before of course, with the PC and Mac battle all about efficiency over design. Mac users claim to be design-led creative types, where PC users see themselves as more utilitarian, putting power and efficiency first. For many, it’s a sensible woolly pullover compared to a trendy shirt.

And Apple have defined the start of the 21st Century with devices that are not only cool, but now work, and can cut the mustard. And whereas Microsoft rarely played catch-up in the world of operating systems and applications, it has always been running behind Apple when it came to personal multimedia devices.

So now we have the almost inevitable possibility of a Microsoft phone – being called the Zune phone, or Pink phone – to round-off the giant’s personal multimedia offering.

The Microsoft phone will run Windows Mobile 7 and will most likely come packed with an ARM v6+ processor. Therefore, it will be a smartphone, complete with a USB connection, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g. A three mega pixel digital camera looks likely to be offered as standard, although rumours suggest that a second camera will be offered as standard. And there’s also talk of assisted GPS. It seems probable it will also come with a light sensor, compass and accelerometer.

It’s almost certain that the screen will be based on a 3.5 inch, 800 x 480 display with touch support. How text will be entered, via the screen, or a physical keyboard, is not definite, although an actual QWERTY keyboard seems unlikely given the design parameters. Although a number of buttons have been talked about.

There’s also talk of Micro SD support and an FM radio. Overall, it will look very much like the existing Zune MP3 player.

But whether the Microsoft Phone eventually becomes as desirable as the iPhone, remains to be seen.

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Don’t be surprised when you’re making a call on the Garmin Asus Nuvifone G60 if its starts shouting at you to turn left, turn, left, not right, left you idiot!

Garmin claim to be the global leader in satellite navigation and each Nuvifone G60 comes complete with voice prompted turn-by-turn directions that shouts/whispers (depending on the volume) street names, onboard maps and millions of points of interest.

Lets just hope your phone never gets terrets syndrome, or it will be very embarrassing.

But apart from never getting lost again, what does the Garmin Asus Nuvifone G60 offer the mobile phone user? It’s basically a powerful bundle which integrates a quad-band GSM phone with 3.5G data connectivity, a Webkit-based Internet browser, personal messaging, Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth.

Garmin are proud of the phone’s touchscreen, its internet connectivity and its easy-to-use features. And as you might think from guys that made their name helping people to get around, navigation is at the heart of this device.

For example, location information is included in email, SMS, photo sharing, social networking and lots more. It also has high-speed downlink/uplink packet access (HSDPA / HSUPA).

And it comes complete with a three mega pixel camera that allows you to take shots of where’ve you’ve just been and where you are about to go.

When you get down to the finer details, it appears to pack quite a punch with quad-band 2G and tri-band 3G for voice and high-speed wireless Internet. Wi-Fi b/g comes with WPA encryption and the desktop web experience has the benefit of a full HTML browser. Location based applications include real-time traffic information, flight times, weather and Google Local search.

And there’s more, when it comes to communications, the Garmin Asus Nuvifone G60 can mix with the big boys, with tagged SMS, email and photo sharing. It has on-board the Ciao!™ location-based social networking platform that integrates compatible social networks into one easy-to-use interface. For those who need to compose a few sonnets, there’s also a virtual QWERTY keyboard on the touchscreen.

But lets not forget its heritage. Apart from its ability to shout out voice prompted turn-by-turn directions, it is optimised for use in the car and has a “Where am I?” safety feature. This displays your current address and nearest police, hospital and fuel services in one click; handy if a night out has left you a little confused. And, it also works in pedestrian mode for in-hand navigation.
Finally, some other specs for those interested in exactly what this baby is capable of.

Operated by a Linux operating system, it measures 112 x 58.1 x 14.6 mm and weighs 137g (and that includes the battery). The touchscreen is an impressive 3.55 inch 65k colour jobby with anti-glare resistance. Display resolution is 272 x 480 WQVGA.

Its 1100mAh removable/rechargeable lithium cell battery allows you to talk for four hours, or wait 250 hours for that call. Flash memory is 4GB on-board 128 MB RAM with an expandable memory of Micro SD, HC Capable, expandable up to 16GB.

Its MP3 capable, supports POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP email, and allows you to peek at Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, JPG documents.

So, all in all, even if you never feel the need to know where you are, or where you might be going, have a careful look at the Garmin Asus Nuvifone G60.

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Many people increasingly prefer the option of making telephone calls through the Internet. Skype is considered to be the pioneer in the field of Internet telephony. Skype is a Voice over IP (VoIP) software, through which you can easily make calls to other people (who have this service). It boasts of Gen-next software that allows you to make unlimited amount of voice calls. The installation process is fairly easy and does not take much time.

Skype converts the voice signal received from a telephone line into a digital signal. This signal, then travels through the Internet and is converted back into the voice signal at the other end.

Brief History:

Skype was launched in the year 2003 by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström. In September 2005, eBay acquired it for a whopping amount of $2.6 billion. Since the year it was launched, Skype has introduced many new and advanced versions, such as Skype 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 2.7.0.49 (beta) and 4.0. On August 16-17, 2007, the number of Skype logins had reached such a large extent that Skype had to experience a system-wide crash.

Functions:

Skype allows you to chat through its feature called ‘Skype me.’ A prominent factor, that gives Skype an edge over other services, is you do not receive any unsolicited messages or spams.

It consists of a facility through which you can easily debar the annoying users from messaging you.

Here, it also provides you a special feature such called ‘Skype To Go’ using which you can make international calls from your mobile phone, and that too, at the Skype-Out rate (rate at which you make calls from your PC).

Skype has introduced a new feature called ‘Skype Mobile’ in April 2008, through which Skype can be accessed on mobile phones too.

There is also a ‘video conferencing’ feature, which allows you to do video-conference with other users. It can connect up to five Skype users simultaneously.

Skype also ensures that all modes of communication between its users (instant messages, voice or files) are encrypted with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).

On 14th April, 2009, eBay announced its plans to spinoff Skype in 2010 via an initial public offering.

Call Costs:

You can make free PC-to-PC calls to your contacts. However, in case of making or receiving calls from regular phones or mobiles, you may be charged some amount of fees that will be based on the destination to which you make the call.

Calls will be charged at per minute rate and you may also avail the fair use policy through which you will get to make unlimited free calls. There is also a scheme under which you will be required to pay monthly fees of $2.95 to make unlimited calls in the U.S.

Skype is thus the most preferred communication service across the globe and boasts of more than 350 million users.

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