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Archive - 02 Nov 2006

to the relief of software developers everywhere

Talkback if only the NHS had this available to help with the delivery of their troubled patient-administration systems, or maybe this is the solution

UkOnline technical support Belfast,NI

Forum Hello! Let me tell you how your favorite ISP (UkOnline) works Why every times you try to reach us you are waiting so long ? Number one, only one telephone number, always the same. Why ? It's not...

Vodafone outsources application development

News Cost-cutting move sees Vodafone farm out its application development and maintenance work to IBM and EDS

My Data Center Visit

Talkback I've had the pleasure to be given a tour around a data center owned by the company i work for. The security there is VERY good and it needs to be to provide a quality service to the customer. You...

Level 3 falls victim to data centre robbery

News Update: Thieves caused widespread service outages after stealing core router cards from a London hosting centre

Whiteboard: The compliance challenge

Video Defining an effective compliance policy is no easy task, but implementing a policy around email identification and remediation is a good place to start

Whiteboard: The Exchange-BlackBerry battle

Video The BlackBerry is the current champ in the PDA market, but it may be under threat from Windows Mobile

LAN security firm pushes into UK

News Vinod Dahm, who helped create the Pentium, hopes to capitalise on demand for LAN protection

More to come!

Talkback The idea is that we'll all get a chance to write more about a greater diversity of subjects, while keeping the focus of the site firmly on all that good enterprise IT. How well this will pan out -...

NHS designs bug-fighting keyboard

News A London hospital has come up with a keyboard that could help in the fight against the MRSA superbug

Company profile: Mobile Linux pioneer Trolltech

Feature Having first developed a GUI toolkit 12 years ago, Trolltech now wants to make Linux a player in the mobile world

Cicero launches Symbian dual-mode client

News CiceroPhone makes it easy for Nokia E-series users to make phone calls over Wi-Fi instead of a mobile network

Think you can do better? Come and work for us then...

Blog If you think you can do a better job than we currently do of writing about the tech industry and reviewing the latest products, why not show us. We're currently looking for a reviewer on ZDNet UK...

A new science for a new age

Leader Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for a science of the web. He's right, but in the wrong way

Web Science, texting, and creative misuse

Blog You'd have thought that, having invented it, Tim Berners-Lee would know how the web worked. The Web Science project he wants to launch will study the World Wide Web, how it's working and what's...

When data is not the ultimate hacker target

Blog The fact that a US water utility was hacked last week is far from headline news, but what struck a chord here in London was the fact that the hackers were not trying to view, or steal, the...

Tab surfing is clearly the way forward. However, more things...

Talkback Tab surfing is clearly the way forward. However, more things work in IE 6 than IE 7 or FireFox (in my experience anyway). This simple fact is why I use IE 6.

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700

Review If you thought dual cores were over the top, get ready. Intel presents the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, a single CPU with four distinct processing cores. At $999, the first quad-core CPU will remain an...

Motorola chooses home for its open-source Java

News Builder: Mobile phone maker urges others to help build open-source Java ME at the Apache Software Foundation

Four winners of 80GB video iPods

Blog We have now selected four people from the private beta testing programme we ran before the launch of our redesign, each of whom wins an 80Gb black video iPod worth £259. They are Bruce Tutty and...

Second Firefox 2 bug discovered

News Mozilla remains confident only minor problems have been found in the week after the browser's release

HP's Hurd recalls few details under questioning

News When quizzed by Congress for information on HP's spying tactics, chief executive Mark Hurd remembered little

28th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

Blog The conference details, fittingly, aren't splashed about all over the net, but there are some very interesting speakers in London today. Professor Nigel Gilbert, Chair of the Royal Academy of...

Beer Review

Blog PR maven - a word I've always imagined describing a raven with a speech impediment - Andrew Smith has noticed my formula for getting coverage on ZDNet UK. Fellow PRs have immediately latched onto...

A confession

Blog My name is Mike and I Google myself. There, I said it, I feel better already, like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. The last social taboo has been broken and I'm proud to be the first....

Apple wireless flaw revealed

News Security researcher has kicked off a 'month of kernel bugs' by releasing attack code for an Apple Wi-Fi vulnerability

Babel on the Web

Blog I love the Bible, for all sorts of reasons. One is that if you take the time to dig around, so much of it is gloriously off-message for just about all varieties of religion that would claim...

Date set for Office and Vista business launch

News Microsoft will be holding an event on 30 November to mark the launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 for businesses

Pssst...wanna job?

Blog The Reviews section of ZDNet UK is expanding. We've got a great new site, and we aim to fill it with even more great reviews content than you get already. Check out the story that's front and...

The Today Programme's fear of a tech planet

Blog They try, bless 'em, but this morning the 8am headlines said "Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Internet..." Cue email meltdown. By 8:25, the irascible Humphries was forced to...

Can anyone say Opera?

Talkback It is no surprise to me that Firefox beats IE 7. But all the items that your commentators said were missing in Firefox are available in Opera. Also Opera is even smaller and faster than Firefox,...