Previous DayGov't announces airport ID-card trials
News Manchester and London City airports will roll out ID cards to airside workers in late 2009, half a year after the planned start
Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics
News High-street businesses such as post offices and banks will be invited to tender to be biometrics enrolment centres as part of the national ID card scheme
Nasa hacker releases music video
Blog Whether it's part of his campaign to raise awareness for his impending extradition, or whether he just likes making music, Gary McKinnon, the man accused of "the biggest military hack of all time"...
RE:Gibson: Is McKinnon still here?
Blog Comment Briefly, the US alleged that McKinnon identified US Government and that he deleted data, including critical OS files from nine computers, the deletion of which shut down the entire US Army’s...
RE:And the data loss goes on...
Blog Comment What could be highlighted is that device specific protection was finally responsible for preventing further damage. Many software solutions continue to approach protection against removable media...
The weak spots in the internet's infrastructure
Video Some internet nodes are not as protected as they could be, says VeriSign CTO Ken Silva
Google pulls plug on Yahoo search-ad deal
News Yahoo expressed disappointment with Google's decision to give up on the partnership, rather than risk a legal battle with regulators and damaged relationships with partners
Endpoint security software designed against trojans.
Talkback It is true that antivirus software plays an important part on organizations network security. It is also true that in many cases it’s not, for example industrial networks (clients not connected to...
Intel cuts VMware stake in half
News The chipmaker plans to reduce its investment in the virtualisation company, putting millions of shares on the open market and selling 1m to Cisco and EMC
Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Comment Strip away all the bluster and jargon and you soon realise the end is nigh for proprietary software, says open-source expert Mark Taylor
Seagate to avoid solid-state drives for now
News Chief executive Bill Watkins sees potential in flash memory and SSDs but says the economics do not yet add up
Obama talks tech policy
Blog The upcoming 44th president of the United States has given an indication of his policy on technology. A video released on Sunday, shows Barack Obama speaking to an audience of Google employees...
RE:Would you put your datacentre near a volcano?
Blog Comment It is about time that we all, politicians included agree to spend some time and money into making geothermal pay. It offers the best long term energy source we have on the planet and until the end...
Quickoffice releases iDisk tool for iPhone
News The office-productivity software firm has launched its first application designed for Apple's popular handset
BT offers Windows Small Business Server 2008
News Ahead of Microsoft's official launch of the SME-orientated server package, BT Business has said it is ready to start working with customers on implementation and support
Salesforce demos app for Facebook
Video At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and senior vice president Steve Fisher demo a recruiting program made possible by making Force.com's platform compatible with Facebook
Can the cloud be trusted?
Video ZDNet.com's Sam Diaz discusses why some are hesitant to put their faith in the cloud, and how social-networking tools may help generate new ideas during lean times
Adobe aims to make Photoshop.com more social
News Adobe plans to offer more social options for Photoshop.com, plus a tool to sync online photos with those on your computer
RE:And the data loss goes on...
Blog Comment It seems that this story is being blown out of all proportions - the Government has confirmed that the data stick was encrypted, meaning there is no data loss. Whoever was responsible for ensuring...
The end of software patents?
Blog The open source community will be resting a bit easier - "abstract" patents, for business processes have been ruled out by the US authorities, at least for now. The US patent office rejected an...
Firefox 'private browsing' mode released to testers
News The new privacy mode has been released to testers of Minefield, Mozilla's testbed application for new browser innovations, while a public release is around the corner
Oracle embeds Web 2.0 functions in CRM apps
News The company has unveiled Social CRM Applications, incorporating Web 2.0 functions to allow the apps to emulate social-networking sites
Google hails vote to open up US wireless spectrum
News The search giant has applauded the US Federal Communications Commission's decision to open up prime spectrum for wireless-broadband services
Dreamweaver CS4
Review Best for coding and design professionals, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is perhaps the sharpest, swiftest tool for developing and editing dynamic web sites.
Yahoo urged to sell search unit to Microsoft
News Analysts and major shareholder Carl Icahn say Yahoo will gain more from a Microsoft pact than from the proposed search-ad deal with Google
Dell offers staff unpaid leave to cut costs
News CEO Michael Dell has offered employees up to five days of unpaid holiday as part of a wider cost-cutting scheme aimed at avoiding layoffs
Orange racks up 3m mobile-data users
News In its Q3 financial report, the mobile operator said its mobile-broadband customer base is up 86 percent year on year
RE:Gibson: Is McKinnon still here?
Blog Comment Finally got a look at an article on the BBC with some detail besides what he says he did. They mentioned that the UK authorities gave the hard drive of his system to the FBI. So they now know what...
RE:Microsoft Windows 7 - the reviewers' guide, reviewed
Blog Comment LOL! I actually prefer trackballs myself! Conceptually I have a pretty good handle on what would be needed to make a multi-touch screen to work. The big issue is how to implement a scan mechanism...
