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Blog Comment Ah good so there is hope. Anyway come to think of it, why is the home secetary deciding on the fate of an individual? I didn't think that was the way things were supposed to work! Of course...
Phorm appoints Norman Lamont as director
News The behavioural-advertising company has appointed former chancellor Norman Lamont and Broadband Stakeholder Group chair Kip Meek as non-executive directors
Date set for McKinnon extradition judicial review
Blog Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking Nasa and Pentagon computers, will have his oral judicial review hearing on 20 Jan, according to the Free Gary McKinnon website. The judicial review will...
HW Trading case
Blog Microsoft said on Monday that its case against Samir Abdalla of HW Trading was not about “the grey trade” at all, but the “alleged source and sale of illegal, unlicensed Microsoft software”. We...
Cambridge vs Oxford, Xen vs VMWare
Blog Last Friday I went to the College IT Conference, which is an annual get-together of college IT managers from Oxford and Cambridge universities. Note that these are the IT managers at the...
Touchscreen + Qwerty...
Talkback Interesting that this combines a full functioning touchscreen with Qwerty in a single device. Suggests Nokia believe you need both so suit all users rather than pure Touchscreen (ie. iPhone) or...
Red Hat chief: 'Cheaper generally wins'
News Jim Whitehurst believes his company can flourish in the current economic climate, because its products are cheap and it has heritage in cloud computing
Top 10 candidates to be Obama's CTO
Analysis President-elect Barack Obama is planning to employ the US's first chief technology officer. But who is the tech industry's most likely candidate for the job?
Behind the scenes: Unlocking iPhones in Vietnam
Photo In a small workshop on a quiet block in Hanoi, Tuan Anh Do runs a bustling business unlocking iPhones and other mobile handsets. CNET News.com's Dong Ngo paid a visit and was impressed by what he...
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
Review Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 is a well-designed and fully stocked smartphone that offers great customisation via its interactive panel interface. However, with its high price tag, the X1 is definitely...
Gov't launches £30m fund for small tech businesses
News Individual technology firms could attract venture funding of up to £2m through the government's Enterprise Capital Funds programme
Fritz!Box 7270
Review The Fritz!Box 7270 is well designed and packed with features. DECT and 802.11n are major additions, but the real value lies in the detailed features built around those functions. The 7270 should...
RE:Zero cost recovery – part 2: Removing malware
Blog Comment Super! I'm a user of hijack this, Winsock, Blaclight. If you want a free stripped down version of spywaredoctor forever, then go to the google download toolbar page, untick everything except...
Nokia unveils touchscreen, Qwerty N97
Photo The social-networking-oriented N97 is Nokia's second-ever touchscreen handset, and the first to combine such a screen with a full Qwerty keyboard, GPS and a built-in compass
Hitachi, Intel sign pact to develop enterprise SSDs
News The partners will work together on delivering solid-state drives for servers, workstations and storage systems
DOS Anti Virus
Talkback In the old days (about 15 years ago) we had an anti-virus program installed (I think it was Norton) that did a hash of your system at boot up and compared this with a stored hash taken when the...
What makes an e-book ? Now the Nintendo DS enters the fray...
Blog As a publisher in my other life I take a keen interest in digital book devices but like the netbook I still cant really see the point of them. At a push I can see the use in the US of the Kindle...
EFF: Don't protect US telcos from spying lawsuits
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation will argue in a US court that it's unconstitutional to shield telecoms firms that helped the Bush administration unlawfully spy on Americans
Facebook Connect squares up to Google, OpenID and OpenSocial (again)
Blog It was May when Facebook Connect was first announced with the aim of "socialising" any website. With launch only a few weeks away, does it create more risks than benefits for social media users? ...
RE:Symbian keen to ignite USB development interest
Blog Comment Hey Roger, I hear ya on the whole plug in extra memory thing - I just got handed my press pack at the Adobe event I am at on an 8-Gig stick... very nice... and, as I'm also on an Acer Aspire One...
Atheros Wi-Fi drivers go open source
Blog Good news from the leading Wi-Fi silicon maker - it's opened up, so its hardware will fully supported upstream in Linux. Atheros will share source code for its hardware abstraction layer (HAL)...
Browser-based 'Cloud' OS launched for netbooks
News Good OS's netbook operating system features a browser with an integrated, Mac OS X-like dock and a Linux kernel that boots 'in seconds'
Palm revenues plummet as Treo sales fall
News Second-quarter revenue will be far below analyst expectations as Treo sales continue to dwindle without Palm's next-generation OS
RAR RAR Ubuntu!
Blog My current top secret assignment is building a micro-site in Joomla! with PDF downloads. The designers sent over the mockups all cosily wrapped up in RAR format. In Ubuntu Linux, I right clicked...
Online Christmas sales head for 10pc rise
News Deloitte estimates online Christmas purchases will increase by 10 percent this year, while commentators have predicted online shopping is beginning to slow
Incumbent telcos losing grip on EU broadband
News Research from the European Commission has found the incumbent telcos' control over European fat pipes is steadily dropping, as the EU gets ever more broadband-enabled
System design to help gov't curb security breaches
News The government has revealed how it will avoid future data breaches similar to the HMRC loss of 25 million people's details
Google reveals Chrome customisation plan
News Among the most requested features for the open-source browser is plug-in customisation, which would also allow an ad-blocking extension
Adobe MAX is looking pretty Flash in Milan
Blog It has been ten years since I lived in Rome working as a satellite TV transmission controller – so my Italian is pretty rusty. Arriving in Milan for Adobe's MAX developer conference this week, I...
Apple tells Mac users to install antivirus software
News Apple changes its tune by advising Mac users to install antivirus software in recognition that even Mac users aren't immune to rising malware threats
The future of mobile-device chargers
Video Kinetic energy technology can charge mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet
RE:Linux distros made IPv6 ready
Blog Comment That's nice but the only way its going to get used at least commercially is via an IPv4 tunnel. Whoop-de-doo. I haven't seen any ISP advertising or even offering IPv6 connections. I assume that...
