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Josh Lowensohn
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Ben Woods
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Ben Woods
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Jack Schofield
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Jack Clark
The Home Affairs Committee has called for an ISP code of conduct 'committing them to removing violent extremist material', although it is unclear whether they mean 'hosting providers' rather than ISPs Read more
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David Meyer
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Kelvyn Taylor
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Roger Cheng
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David Meyer
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Jack Wallen
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Jason Hiner
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The... Read more
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Ben Woods
Dell has created a dedicated software group and tapped John Swainson, former head of IT services specialist CA Technologies, to run it.
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Jack Clark
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has suspended his country's ratification of ACTA, in a move that could make the agreement null and void across the EU Read more
3 February, 2012 17:33
by
David Meyer
The company is opening up its processors to technologies from other chip makers, potentially including low-power specialist ARM, so it can develop products better suited to mobile devices, such as tablets
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3 February, 2012 17:20
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Jack Clark
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7 February, 2012 11:07
by
First Take
Raspberry Pi open-source Linux computers will go on sale at £16 before the end of February, the project said on Monday.
"We have a date for the... Read more
7 February, 2012 10:51
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Jack Clark
During the 2003 London march to protest the beginning of the Iraq war, we shuffled very, very slowly over a clogged Waterloo Bridge. Monitoring... Read more
7 February, 2012 07:51
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Book Reviews
A 26-year-old Hungarian man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, after he attempted to blackmail Marriot International into giving him... Read more
6 February, 2012 16:00
by
Ben Woods
BT has announced that it now has 3.5 million Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and Ireland, and that these are now accessible to RIM BlackBerry users via a new... Read more
6 February, 2012 13:59
by
Jack Schofield
The telecoms regulator Ofcom has come up with new draft caps for how much BT Openreach can charge other ISPs for its wholesale line rental and for... Read more
6 February, 2012 09:20
by
David Meyer
Apple was forced to remove several iOS devices from sale on its German online store on Thursday as a result of its patent battles with Motorola.
The... Read more
3 February, 2012 21:04
by
Ben Woods
Dell has created a dedicated software group and tapped John Swainson, former head of IT services specialist CA Technologies, to run it.
The move,... Read more
3 February, 2012 18:50
by
Jack Clark
The Manchester University team that first isolated graphene has discovered a way of introducing a band gap into the material that makes it a much more... Read more
3 February, 2012 13:23
by
Lucy Sherriff
NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting the moon to map its... Read more
3 February, 2012 12:13
by
David Meyer
Nokia's first Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 800 was the first fruit of what will be an ongoing collaboration with Microsoft that will see Nokia use... Read more
3 February, 2012 09:37
by
First Take
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has lost his appeal bid to be released on bail.
The alleged internet piracy supremo was arrested in New Zealand in... Read more
3 February, 2012 08:47
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David Meyer
Julian Assange's UK Supreme Court appeal judgement will take a minimum of four weeks to be published, according to a spokeswoman for the... Read more
2 February, 2012 17:52
by
Tom Espiner
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2 February, 2012 12:58
by
First Take
The most predictable thing about wireless networks is that they never quite reach the location you most need them in. The Fritz! WLAN 300E is a small,... Read more
1 February, 2012 08:37
by
First Take
If your industry hasn't been disrupted by Google yet, observed the New Yorker writer Ken Auletta in his 2010 book Googled, it will be soon. Two recent... Read more
30 January, 2012 08:16
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Book Reviews
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28 January, 2012 00:22
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First Take
In the beginning, Microsoft's system management suite, System Center, was all about managing network servers and other physical resources. Then along... Read more
25 January, 2012 18:22
by
First Take
Whenever possible, learn from other people's failures — it's cheaper than learning from your own. Eric Ries didn't have this advantage when, as a... Read more
23 January, 2012 08:30
by
Book Reviews
Toshiba's Portégé R series has been popular among those wanting thin and light notebooks for a while, although as we noted when we... Read more
20 January, 2012 12:24
by
First Take
Raspberry Pi open-source Linux computers will go on sale at £16 before the end of February, the project said on Monday.
"We have a date for the... Read more
7 February, 2012 10:02
by
Jack Clark
As part of a sting operation, Symantec promised to pay a hacker group $50,000 to keep the source code for some of its flagship security products off the internet, the company confirmed on Monday Read more
7 February, 2012 08:59
by
Stephen Musil
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6 February, 2012 17:38
by
Michael Lee
Hardware makers shipped more smartphones than PCs last year, according to an analyst report, driven by lower prices and a rising appetite for internet browsing on handsets Read more
6 February, 2012 16:58
by
Rachel King
People who create books for sale using Apple's iBooks Author software are now free to offer them outside the iBookstore, as long as they are not built for use on iOS devices Read more
6 February, 2012 16:13
by
Josh Lowensohn
A 26-year-old Hungarian man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, after he attempted to blackmail Marriot International into giving him... Read more
6 February, 2012 16:02
by
Ben Woods
Virgin Media's fastest 100Mbps broadband package is now available to over 10 million homes, beating its mid-2012 estimate for the rollout. However, the company will introduce cable price rises in April Read more
6 February, 2012 14:01
by
Ben Woods
BT has announced that it now has 3.5 million Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and Ireland, and that these are now accessible to RIM BlackBerry users via a new... Read more
6 February, 2012 13:02
by
Jack Schofield
The VFCache (formerly Project Lightning) PCIe flash cards are EMC's first piece of hardware for servers rather than storage, and provide a halfway house for data as it passes between servers and the storage area network Read more
6 February, 2012 13:33
by
Jack Clark
The Home Affairs Committee has called for an ISP code of conduct 'committing them to removing violent extremist material', although it is unclear whether they mean 'hosting providers' rather than ISPs Read more
6 February, 2012 13:23
by
David Meyer
Hours after Apple said it was pulling various iPhones and iPads from its German online store, the company backtracked and said the products would return shortly Read more
6 February, 2012 09:33
by
Roger Cheng
The telecoms regulator Ofcom has come up with new draft caps for how much BT Openreach can charge other ISPs for its wholesale line rental and for... Read more
6 February, 2012 09:02
by
David Meyer
European Union officials have asked Google to hold off on its plans to share user information across all of its services until the privacy implications can be examined, but Google is standing firm Read more
6 February, 2012 08:55
by
Elinor Mills
None of the newly launched tablets has the two things that have made Apple and Amazon's tablets so successful, says Jason Hiner Read more
4 February, 2012 12:01
by
Jason Hiner
Apple was forced to remove several iOS devices from sale on its German online store on Thursday as a result of its patent battles with Motorola.
The... Read more
3 February, 2012 21:02
by
Ben Woods
ViewSonic’s new ViewPad is something of a gamble. The 9.7 inch Android tablet is selling for £199 inc VAT at Argos, a price which makes it very... Read more
7 February, 2012 11:02
by
First Take
During the 2003 London march to protest the beginning of the Iraq war, we shuffled very, very slowly over a clogged Waterloo Bridge. Monitoring... Read more
7 February, 2012 07:02
by
Book Reviews
D-Link's no-frills approach to NAS will be attractive to businesses who need the storage basics without unnecessary complications. But those looking for a 'do-anything' system should look elsewhere. Read more
6 February, 2012 12:29
by
Kelvyn Taylor
The Galaxy Extreme is an affordable rugged handset, although it's short on internal storage and the screen and camera are both disappointingly low-resolution. If you want a tough Android smartphone, you should also consider the similarly priced Motorola Defy+. Read more
3 February, 2012 16:14
by
Sandra Vogel
Nokia's first Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 800 was the first fruit of what will be an ongoing collaboration with Microsoft that will see Nokia use... Read more
3 February, 2012 09:02
by
First Take
Retailer Clove Technology has withdrawn the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime from sale, issuing a statement casting doubt on the Prime's functionality.... Read more
2 February, 2012 12:02
by
First Take
The most predictable thing about wireless networks is that they never quite reach the location you most need them in. The Fritz! WLAN 300E is a small,... Read more
1 February, 2012 08:02
by
First Take
The Transformer Prime is the best marriage of screen and keyboard we've seen in a tablet. The quad-core Tegra 3 processor gives it professional-level performance, and battery life is excellent too. Read more
30 January, 2012 16:25
by
Sandra Vogel
If your industry hasn't been disrupted by Google yet, observed the New Yorker writer Ken Auletta in his 2010 book Googled, it will be soon. Two recent... Read more
30 January, 2012 08:01
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Book Reviews
Most file sharing in businesses is done through email, which clogs up your mail server and multiplies versions of files confusingly. SharePoint is a... Read more
28 January, 2012 00:01
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First Take
The Omnia W is attractively priced, and the screen is large enough to deliver a reasonable web browsing (if you can live without Flash) and mobile email experience. Build quality is solid, but the design is unremarkable. Read more
26 January, 2012 15:14
by
Sandra Vogel
In the beginning, Microsoft's system management suite, System Center, was all about managing network servers and other physical resources. Then along... Read more
25 January, 2012 18:01
by
First Take
An ideal backup tool for small businesses and larger enterprises alike, vmProtect 6 makes light work of protecting and rapidly recovering virtual machines on VMware vSphere hosts. Read more
23 January, 2012 12:26
by
Alan Stevens
Whenever possible, learn from other people's failures — it's cheaper than learning from your own. Eric Ries didn't have this advantage when, as a... Read more
23 January, 2012 08:01
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Book Reviews
This is a well-built 1U server which, if correctly specified with the latest Xeon E3-1200 processor and other options, will have no problem living up to its positioning as an entry-level virtualisation platform. Read more
20 January, 2012 15:45
by
Alan Stevens
Certain well-known software and hardware products simply aren't very good — in fact some are barely usable, says Jack Wallen Read more
5 February, 2012 12:01
by
Jack Wallen
As FreeBSD and PC-BSD OSes both hit version 9, we take a tour of their installations, comparing the former's old-school text-based approach with the latter's graphical UI Read more
1 February, 2012 15:07
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Chris Duckett
Organisations that are ready for a disaster reduce its impact and are up and running again more quickly — those that don't may never recover, says Jack Wallen Read more
28 January, 2012 12:01
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Jack Wallen
A huge solar flare on Sunday has reached the Earth's atmosphere, causing spectacular displays of the aurora borealis Read more
25 January, 2012 11:17
by
Martin LaMonica
Microsoft has given details on how its Metro app store, called Windows Store, will handle the discovery, downloading and updating of apps when its flagship Windows 8 beta launches Read more
23 January, 2012 17:31
by
Ben Woods
As BT gets going on a project to digitise half a million pictures from its archives, ZDNet UK has selected some already online that illustrate the ups and downs of the UK communications over the years
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20 January, 2012 16:08
by
Rupert Goodwins
At CES 2012, Sony showed off two sleek and stylish concept laptops, including an oval-shaped device and a hybrid tablet PC Read more
20 January, 2012 12:15
by
Christopher MacManus
LightPad is a pico projector mixed with a keyboard and trackpad, which together can convert your phone into a laptop, or beam it onto a screen Read more
15 January, 2012 12:00
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Josh Lowensohn
PCs and laptops soaked up the limelight at this year's CES in Las Vegas, with manufacturers queuing up to present variations on the Intel-defined ultrabook category of device Read more
14 January, 2012 12:00
by
Rich Brown and Dan Ackerman and Scott Stein
The London-based augmented reality start-up, which won a UKT&I competition for space on the CES 2012 show floor, lays out its apps and its ambition to be as recognisable as Twitter Read more
12 January, 2012 17:38
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Ben Woods
At CES 2012, Dell showed off its first ultrabook, a 13.3-inch Intel-based device that comes with Windows plus a few features aimed at appealing to enterprise users Read more
12 January, 2012 16:29
by
Ben Woods
At CES 2012, the Chinese firm has shown off the K800 Android smartphone, powered by a 32nm Medfield Atom processor Read more
11 January, 2012 17:25
by
Kent German
The Chinese telecoms giant continues its campaign to become a household name with the debut of the Ascend P1 S Android 4.0 handset, which it describes as the thinnest smartphone in the world Read more
11 January, 2012 16:41
by
Ben Woods
Apple iPad users will be able to run a Windows 7 desktop and Microsoft Office apps on their tablets, thanks to new software from California-based OnLive Read more
10 January, 2012 16:27
by
Larry Magid
The seven-inch tablet comes on two-year contract terms and runs the Honeycomb variant of Android Read more
10 January, 2012 15:30
by
David Meyer
A lot of corporate IT is dedicated to reducing risk. ZDNet UK takes a look at the cultural reasons why risk is misunderstood and mishandled in organisations Read more
2 January, 2012 18:00
by
Rupert Goodwins
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Apple unveiled the latest version of its smartphone on Tuesday. The iPhone 4S comes with a dual-core A5 processor, faster graphics and voice-recognition software Read more
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Apple's long-awaited Mac OS X Lion update brings around 250 new features, including increased multitouch capabilities and the Launchpad viewscreen Read more
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The chip architecture firm assesses its arch-rival's mobile prospects and explains how dual-core processors can improve power usage in tablets Read more
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Paul Strong, VMware's chief technology officer for EMEA, shows ZDNet UK how the company's virtualisation technology will let IT managers run a secure OS within employees' Android smartphones Read more
17 February, 2011 09:25
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David Meyer
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