Previous DayDiminishing benefits
Talkback I was working on multi processor mainframes in the 80's and the problem was that the as you go from a single processor to two processors they (ie the operating systems) suddenly have to start...
Red Hat exec says Novell sells beta code
Blog Red Hat has an announcement tomorrow that we'll be telling you about in due course. In the meantime, here's a snippet: a Red Hat vice president slated Novell's real-time SUSE Linux which launched...
TJX offers £20m settlement over breach
Roundup The retail company has offered to pay banks $40.9m over the world's largest security breach
Parallels Desktop ready for Leopard at last
News Having fixed 'a few issues', Mac specialist Parallels said on Friday that its virtualisation software is ready to run on Mac OS X Leopard
Dialogue Box 2.8: Asus Eee — the sequel
Video Dialogue Box brings you the latest on one of the products of the year. And then takes it to pieces
RE:BBC fesses up on Panorama Wi-Fi nonsense
Blog Comment Another fine example of license money getting put to good use, but really the title indicated what direction the program was going to take from the start. I'm waiting for the next program entitled...
Ofcom consults on London 2012 spectrum
News The regulator aims to identify the applications that will need spectrum and whether it can be used more efficiently during the Olympics
Mobile application calculates carbon footprint
News The European Commission has created a Java-based application for mobile devices that enables users to calculate their effect on the environment
Businesses still not convinced about Vista
Video One year on from its release, some companies are still struggling to find a reason to move to Vista, aside from the fact they will eventually have no choice
Apple QuickTime exploit in the wild
News An active exploit has been seen by Symantec for a vulnerability that affects the latest versions of Apple QuickTime
MI5 warns of Chinese digital espionage
News Over 1,000 letters have been sent by the director general of MI5 to UK businesses warning that cyberspies in China are targeting financial information
Christmas online spending to break £5bn barrier
News UK payments body Apacs has warned a 55 percent rise in online spending in December means there will be more potential fraud victims
Mio P560
Review A Windows Mobile handheld without a built-in phone may seem an anachronism, but the Mio P560's generous storage capacity, SDHC support and GPS receiver are all up-to-date features.
Governments prepare for 'cyber cold war'
Analysis Security experts have warned that governments are regularly monitoring and attacking the critical national infrastructures of other nations
UK and India to establish virtual R&D school
News BT is leading an Anglo-Indian consortium that aims to develop and patent new fixed and wireless networking technologies
BBC fesses up on Panorama Wi-Fi nonsense
Blog Remember that travesty of a Panorama report on the evilitude of Wi-Fi? The one with that anti-Wi-Fi guy who just happened to be selling loads of "shielding" paint/mesh/whatever? Well, the BBC's...
owner or 0wnd?
Talkback Now if the action had been taken after the initial breach then understandably it would reduce the number of website impacted by malicious content, yet to perform it over a month later appears to be...
RE:Major breach at Fasthosts
Blog Comment And they've been hacked again and have changed EVERY customer's passwords arbitrarily and without warning. Then posting the new ones out. A complete shambles. Read the Comments on The Register!...
Shorter URLs help phishers hook more victims
News Cybercriminals are shrinking the host names of malicious sites in a bid to lend them an air of legitimacy
Motorola CEO Zander resigns
News After a tough year, Ed Zander will step down to be replaced by the company president and chief operating officer Greg Brown
Peru signs up for 260,000 OLPC laptops
News Project founder Nicholas Negroponte announced the deal on Saturday, and also revealed that 50,000 units have been ordered for distribution in Mexico
RE:Tech Talk - XP to Vista, the Problem Details
Blog Comment Problems with Vista on HP laptop-I hear you loud and clear. I to recently acquired HP laptop that came with preinstalled Vista on it and made my working day a hell. But my machine had non what so...
RE:Mobile mushrooms for the masses
Blog Comment i think the biggest problem for mobile internet is convincing the masses of web developers who make up the majority of the internet to optimise their sites for mobile usage. that's unlikely to...
