Previous DayRE:Biometric devices. Do you need one?
Blog Comment There are two questions here – how much do you trust biometrics, and if they work perfectly (they always identify you correctly and never identify anyone else as you), how would you like to use...
Viacom's motives
Talkback Just how do you determine how your content is pirated by assessing every user and every video they've ever viewed? even videos that have nothing to do with Viacom? Maybe Viacoms real motive here is...
YouTube user privacy at risk in Google-Viacom suit
Video CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss whether YouTube users' privacy will be threatened as a result of a US ruling that Google must turn over user data to Viacom
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'
News The British Air Transport Association says the government is using aviation workers to introduce ID cards incrementally and lend the scheme credibility
Barracuda launches counter-suit against Trend Micro
Blog Court cases are never pleasant or simple. The ongoing battle between security companies Trend Micro and Barracuda Networks took a new twist on Wednesday, when Barracuda launched a counter-suit in...
Seagate invests £120m in Northern Ireland plant
News Investment in the Londonderry plant will allow it to remain 'the lowest-cost and biggest producer of read-write heads in the world', the company said
Quad Boot - Friday Update - It's Good!
Blog After nearly a full week of working with this quad-boot setup in various stages of completion, I can say that I am very pleased. It is working well and it is allowing me to easily compare the...
Comms managers: UK businesses need fibre
News The CMA has warned the UK could suffer unless broadband speeds are increased, while a European body claims fibre deployment leads to more web usage
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
Comment To pay so much attention to Bill Gates's retirement is missing the point; it is neither Gates nor Microsoft that really matter, says the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman
Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018?
Blog There's a new science in town: connectomics. A specialised form of neuroanatomy, connectomics is in the business of mapping out the brain's networks – in particular, how the various functional...
Nokia E71
Review Mobile professionals who need a powerful but sleek messaging-centric smartphone will be well-served by the Nokia E71; just be prepared to pay a price.
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
News Purple Labs will supply its LiMo Foundation partners, like Vodafone and Orange, with Openwave's mobile browsing and messaging software
RE:A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment Update To download and watch the Olympic Games from NBC, Windows Vista Media Centre is required (Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate). Apparently this will be High Definition. However, it does...
ID cards chief casts doubt on scheme security
News The head of the Identity and Passport Service has warned citizens should be concerned about the proposed National Identity Register
Computer Museum
Talkback I continue to be apalled that people and companies who have made fortunes out of computers/software can continue to ignore the histiry of their fortunes. A greedy lot of !!!!. Can somebody ask ,...
Google asks Viacom to respect YouTube user privacy
News The search giant has urged Viacom to allow the anonymisation of YouTube user data that must be handed over following a US court ruling
Museum of Computing seeks new home
News The Swindon museum has put its collection into temporary storage, having lost its previous home at the University of Bath Oakdale campus
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News The Defence Information Infrastructure scheme has delivered benefits but key elements are 18 months late, says the National Audit Office
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard
News The Portable Document Format became the latest International Organization for Standardization standard as of Wednesday morning
Biometrics to speed travel between UK and US
News Fingerprint, iris and facial-recognition tech will be used to speed up frequent UK-US travellers' journeys through immigration control
ICO: UK may get data-breach notification law
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said draft EU legislation may prove the catalyst needed to get data-breach notification into UK law
Gartner: Hosted email to boost cloud-services uptake
News The analyst house claims increasing business use of internet-hosted email services will boost uptake of other IT apps provided over the web
Virtualisation seen as key for greener datacentres
News Speakers at the Energy Logic Symposium in Sydney have touted virtualisation's role in creating less power-hungry datacentres
Internet connection?
Talkback I would like to see how many of the people that haven't upgraded have either dial-up connections or slow unstable broadband. I think you would find that they go hand in hand. I know my folks...
