Previous DayCondemned from the start
Talkback The whole issue of the ID card is condemned from the start and is no way likely to succeed as is the norm with anything the Home Office runs. It will be watered down again and again to cut costs...
Code aims to bypass UAC security in Windows 7
News Authors of a proof-of-concept code say it can bypass the User Account Control anti-malware check in Windows 7 beta, but Microsoft denies it is a flaw
Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets
News A start-up CEO is accused of lying when he applied for a job and stealing information to use in a patent lawsuit against three Microsoft partners
Intel files $50m suit against insurance firm
News The chipmaker has filed a lawsuit against insurance carrier American Guarantee and Liability Insurance, alleging breach of contract
NEC announced 20,000 job cuts
Blog NEC announced on Friday that it will cut 20,000 jobs amongst the largest lost by companies blaming the economic slowdown and poor exchange rates for job losses. Half of the jobs losses will be...
Novell confirms 100 layoffs
Blog The open source vendor Novell on Saturday confirmed that the company was trimming its workforce by less than 100 people, considerably fewer than had been anticipated. Various sources had...
Nokia denies threat to leave Finland
Blog It's difficult in the UK to appreciate quite how important Nokia is to Finland. It is responsible for around a third of the market cap of the country's stock exchange, and is a massively important...
BT cuts prices for small-business packages
News The IT and communications giant reduces charges on broadband and mobile plans for small businesses, and revamps the included extras.
Web 2.0 taskforce to make recommendations to gov't
Blog A group tasked with innovating around and augmenting existing public sector web strategies has produced a draft report on how government can better take advantage of the internet. The "Power of...
Camtasia Studio 6
Review TechSmith's Camtasia Studio is an outstandingly easy-to-use program for creating HD-quality training, teaching and marketing videos for the web and mobile devices.
Id cards will not work - we live in a free country
Talkback I am surprised banks ever thought ID cards would work. In a few years time the government would make it compulsory to carry ID Cards. Therefore, I will not carry one. I was born in a free...
So long for now...
Blog I'm sad to say this is my last post here for at least the next little while. I'm taking a full time job elsewhere, and hope to see some of you over on a rival site - whose name it would be...
Rebel hacker accused of spying on military faces ten years in jail
Blog Authorities in Turkey are seeking a ten year jail sentence for a man who has admitted he was a hacker working for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and is alleged to have planted spyware on...
T-Mobile UK sees drop in mobile customers
News The operator lost customers last year as its G1 Android phone took on O2's iPhone and as competitors came up with strong low-end products
Browser Competition is good.
Talkback Good to see that Firefox, Google Gears, Opera and Safari are doing well. I am not against IE in any way, but the more competition there is, the better the innovation..
Another one bites the dust
Talkback So yet another sector that the Home Office were holding up as being the reason for having an ID card has gone by the wayside. We know, because even ministers agree, that the UK ID card scheme won't...
Ofcom eyes Lloyd Webber's analogue bits
Blog Some common sense from Ofcom, which tells a snowy Britain today that it's thinking about changing some details of the analogue switch-off digital dividend. The move to the more efficient digital TV...
IE market share drops, Firefox gains
News Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is continuing to lose market share to rivals Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome, according to web metrics released on Monday
Microsoft: No second beta of Windows 7
News The next step will be a release candidate version, says Windows engineering chief Steven Sinofsky in a blog post
Five cloud computing myths exploded
Analysis The cloud is providing a fertile habitat for the marketeers and their exaggerated claims. We examine the hokum and debunk the five most frequently peddled misconceptions about the cloud
Frustration more than anything!
Talkback Sheer frustration in reading the ongoing stories that companies and governments continue to suffer from malware and virus outbreaks that conclude - if only they had patched their systems. AND if...
Windows 7, Mac OS make gains in January
News Apple's Mac OS continued to move up among operating systems accessing the web, while Windows 7 jumped up after Microsoft released its public beta, according to Net Applications
Banks fear ID cards have lost useful features
News The UK financial services industry has expressed concerns that security features which would have made the card useful in certain financial transactions have been stripped from the scheme
Data breaches found to cost $6.6m on average
News Organisations experiencing a data breach can pay $6m for lost business and cleanup, according to a recent survey
Dialogue Box 5.6: When power goes bad
Video What happens when a power surge delivers more volts and amps than your electrical equipment can handle? Dialogue Box pushes a capacitor to the limit — and beyond — to find out
What to expect from the Parallels Summit 2009
Blog Leaving a vapour trail of shelved IT events behind it, Parallels will be staging its fourth annual industry meeting of minds this week in Las Vegas. Proof perhaps if it were needed that...
