Previous DayRE:Infection began with a windscreen flyer
Blog Comment "I've never heard of windscreens as an attack vector." No - its usually just Windows *boom* *boom*
Group aims to defend Linux from bad patents
News Linux Defenders is asking the open-source community to help find examples of prior art to fend off action based on poor-quality patents
Infection began with a windscreen flyer
Blog A malware infection was propagated through flyers put on windscreens in Grand Forks, North Dakota, reports SANS institute. The flyers were fake parking violation notices, and instructed people...
Seagate reaches 2TB with new Constellation HDDs
News One of a new family of enterprise disk drives, the Constellation is the company's first 2TB drive
RNA launches memory-virtualisation software
News The new software is transparent to allow applications to work independently of hardware, according to RNA Networks
Motorola pegs Windows Mobile 7 for 2010
Blog Motorola, which has just announced results that amount to several large piles of fail, has also managed to let slip the roadmap for Windows Mobile 7. In the 'earnings' call that accompanied the...
Toshiba unveils 1GHz Windows Mobile phone
Photo The TG01 is the first mobile phone to use Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor, but its battery life is yet to be revealed
That $20 (or $10, or $30) laptop
Blog There has been much vaunting on the interweb these past couple of days concerning India's '$20 laptop'. Or is it $10, or $30? In fact, the number of putative prices for the 'Sakshat' device (which...
Motorola reports $3.6bn fourth-quarter loss
News Trouble in the company's Mobile Devices segment was a significant factor in the loss, while overall revenue of $7.1bn was down 26 percent year over year
Project Kangaroo axed by regulators
News Project Kangaroo, an iPlayer-like system for viewing shows from ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, has been killed off by the Competition Commission
Panasonic to shed 15,000 jobs
News Half the redundancies are in Japan, with the rest of the cuts being made globally. The company also plans to close 27 factories worldwide
How to spot the common symptoms of ineffective IT
Blog Outside the world of IT, my ongoing project is the renovation of a former Post Office in rural Devon. Sadly, many years working in IT Effectiveness Consultancy couldn’t prepare me for rampaging...
EMC, Microsoft team up for share of IT budgets
News Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and EMC's Joe Tucci talk about the pressures on tech spending and about partnering to woo customers
MS Windows 7 losing its shine fast
Talkback MS really don't seem to be getting the marketing of this product. It starting to look like a desperate damage limitation exercise for a failed product Vista, trouble is their failing to take away...
Government as Role Model?
Blog I was reading the article about the Home Office breaching the data protection act and it got me thinking about the recent meeting I and a number of other information security professionals had with...
EC: Businesses need to sign up to social networks
News Social networking for small businesses, the 'internet of things' and the mobile internet will be key drivers for future business growth, according to the EC
Multiple versions of Windows 7 planned
News Microsoft plans to focus on two editions — Home Premium and Professional — but will offer at least four more versions in some parts of the world
Windows Starter to enter the netbook market
News Microsoft's entry-level Windows, previously limited to emerging markets, will now also be offered on low-cost PCs in developed countries
Firefox 3.0.6 targets security issues
News Mozilla developers say the update to the popular web browser addresses several security and stability issues
Google to launch location-sharing Latitude software
News New Google mobile-phone software lets you find people's locations, as long as they are sharing that information with you
RE:Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Will the "promos and special offers" be any more real with Windows 7 than they were with Vista? Can you name a single one that was offered with Vista Ultimate which actually turned out to be real,...
RE:Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog Comment There is a big difference between a Power Point presentation on XP, Vista or Windows 7, if the operating system crashes in the middle of your presentation, or if you aren't able to connect to a...
RE:Parallels CEO: 'The mists are clearing for cloud computing'
Blog Comment Adrian, now this is interesting because the freeware vendors have started to churn out desktop clients that allow you to aggregrate your sky drive, gmail, A-drive etc into a tidy explorer window....
RE:Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment MS have taken the route of a mother and her nice new clean house. She wants the house kept clean and tidy and their are rules - she's not having you returning from university with your laundry...
Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog I think an important point regarding the deployment of windows Vista and 7 for business, is that the hardware and applications currently available are more than ample for many a business. If...
Parallels CEO: 'The mists are clearing for cloud computing'
Blog During this week's Parallels Summit 2009 in Las Vegas, CEO Serguei Beloussov showed that his company had been engaging in a little IT meteorology over the last year by giving us some food for...
Any community CANdo it!
Talkback The truth is that with sufficent demand, and without stupidly prohibitive amounts of money, any community can do what Alston are planning to do in the future. Already, many communities are taking...
