Previous DayStephen Fry stuck in lift - breaking news!
Blog I'm not quite sure how online technology has come to this. However, I am now monitoring, second by second, the peculiar story of Stephen Fry being stuck in a lift in the Centre Point building...
Out In The Snow
Talkback Well, normally I would work at home, all cosy and warm, surrounded by various computers and configurations on those computers to address. As soon as it snowed I had three calls, all requiring me to...
Video Chat - ooVoo 2.0 Released
Blog ooVoo has released their version 2.0 for Windows, and it is gorgeous. I've just downloaded and installed it on my Lifebook S6510 and HP 2133 Mini-Note. I obviously haven't had much time to test...
Lost Panel in XFCE
Blog As regular readers may know, I have recently installed Xubuntu onto my Acer Aspire One. On booting up a few days ago, my top panel had completely disappeared. Oops. Luckily, the internet in it's...
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft is just about to tell all on how many different sorts of Windows 7 it'll ship. There'll be five variants: Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and...
Sony VPL-EX4
Member Review Our school purchased three Sony VPL EX4 projectors in September 2007. In February 2008 all three bulbs blew and the projectors were returned to Sony who told us that they had not been correctly...
Images: Google Earth 5.0 travels the oceans
Photo The updated version of Google's mapping service lets users go underwater to the sea floor, as well as back in time through older aerial and satellite images.
Google in the dock
Blog Two stories have come out this week about Google and European legal entanglements. Google's privacy counsel Peter Fleischer will appear in court this week in Milan, according to The Privacy...
Sony turns to finger veins for mobile security
News A compact, camera-based system called Mofiria uses a CMOS sensor to capture scattered light from finger veins
Microsoft aims to show Windows 7 'Readiness'
News Microsoft has launched a programme to help hardware and software manufacturers ensure their products will work with Windows 7
Snowy Monday saw spike in VPN, mobile usage
News As snow brought travel chaos to the UK on Monday, ISPs noted spikes in demand for remote access, mobile networks were strained and transport websites fell over
Analysts: Web 2.0 to spur smartphone demand
News Web 2.0 apps such as Facebook and Twitter will lead to significant growth in the market for high-end mobile devices, according to a report by Juniper Research
Dell sponsors small business again
Blog Dell has called for entries to this year's Dell Small Business Excellence Awards, an international competition to find technology innovations which is now in its sixth year. The competition is...
IBM plans 20 petaflop supercomputer
News Company says new system will smash the old performance records within two years
Government appoints battery law enforcer
News The National Weights and Measurements Laboratory will make sure electronics manufacturers follow environmental rules on hazardous materials and device design
Motorola starts UK trials of 4G mobile broadband
News Field tests of LTE, the successor to 3G broadband, begin at the communications company's Swindon facility
WiMax gets its security beefed up
Blog WiMax was, apparently, a mobile broadband technology in search of a public key infrastructure (PKI). Well, now it has one: Verisign has just announced it got the deal from the WiMax Forum after "an...
HP Mini 2140
Review HP offers a premium aluminium-clad version of its plastic Mini 1000 while keeping the price down, making the Mini 2140 the business netbook to beat.
Why can't other towns do the same
Talkback What kind of business model for fincancing the fibre-optic network are they using? Would be interesting to know whether this can be repated in other small towns. There are tens of small businesses...
Stallman on Cloud Computing
Talkback "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. Somebody is saying this is inevitable--and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of...
RE:Nokia denies threat to leave Finland
Blog Comment There has been significant discussion within the media about a Finnish government-backed bill that proposes an amendment to the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications. Much of the...
Symantec, Ask team up on web-safety ratings
News Under the new partnership, Norton users will be able to see security ratings for websites directly in searches on Ask
RE:Swimming with the WEI
Blog Comment For me, Visaster was the final straw. I still have it on a partition of my laptop, but the only time I fire it up is for security updates from MS. 99% of my work is now done with Linux, and as soon...
PINoptic secures smartphones using picture codes
News The company says it has new software that will help make smartphones more secure by associating pictures with pass codes instead of numbers
NHS critical IT faults double in three years
News Last year nationwide NHS computer systems suffered 820 'severity one' faults, up from 488 in 2006
IBM report: Security vulnerabilities going unpatched
News A report by IBM X-Force has found many disclosed vulnerabilities are unpatched years later, and that Microsoft is the vendor with the highest percentage of disclosed holes
GoldMine Business Contact Manager
Member Review The company I am with purchased Goldmine 10 months ago and long story short....its still not used. Also most a year has gone by and much time, resources and money and nothing to show for it....
