IT lure of London is second only to San Francisco

London is second only to San Francisco as a location for technology companies, according to a new survey. More than 43 per cent of senior California-based ICT executives cited London as a global centre of convergence for the technology and creative industries, ranking the UK's capital second only to San Francisco. 'Global brands born in California, such as Apple and Google, have established international operations in London because the core components of convergence and business success - access to capital, talent, markets and infrastructure - come together here,' said Michael Charlton, chief executive of Think London, the foreign direct investment agency for London that commissioned the study. ...more

UK games chart: Shadow of the Colossus makes a new number one

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is finally deposed from the top of the ELSPA UK games chart, with Sony's Shadow of the Colossus finally knocking aside the street racing game. The soul-seeking fantasy adventure game for the PS2 goes straight in at number one, with Lucas Arts's Star Wars: Empire at War, for the PC, in at number two. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is down to three. ...more

Gigabyte readies rock solid SLI board

Gigabyte boasts the first 'high-performance' SLI solution for the Intel Pentium 4 platform' with the launch of its new i-DNA series of motherboards. Specifically, it has added the GA-8N-SLI Royal mainboard to its SLI range, aimed squarely at hard-core gaming enthusiasts. As well as supporting 1066MHz FSB LGA775 Intel Pentium 4 Processors and DDR-2 667 memory, it is built around Nvidia's nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition chipset. ...more

Poisoned DNS opens new line of attack for pharmers

Hackers are using a new tactic when it comes to convince people to part with personal information. Criminals are using a known vulnerability in some older Symantec corporate products to redirect legitimate URL requests to spoofed sites - a process known as 'pharming'. The new technique uses DNS cache poisoning to redirect the request. ...more

Russia calls for file sharing legalisation

Russia's chief prosecutor has called for p2p file sharing to be legalised, saying that it would help to combat 'piracy', according to a Russian news website. 'A threat to intellectual property rights in the Internet remains underestimated,' deputy prosecutor general, Vladimir Kolesnikov, told the country's parliament. 'Establishing legal websites could help decrease piracy on the Web,' he added. ...more