Previous DayDell to sell factories
Blog The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell plans to sell its factories to cut costs. According to the WSJ article, most if not all of Dell's factories could be sold or close within 18...
Red Hat buys virtualisation player Qumranet
News With the £60m purchase, Red Hat gains hypervisor and desktop virtualisation tools to challenge VMware and Microsoft
Hitachi SMS100
Review Hitachi's SMS100 is an excellent mid-range iSCSI storage system that uses RAID6 to maintain fault tolerance even when one disk has failed.
Peer proposes data super-watchdog
News Merlin, Earl of Erroll, has called for the amalgamation of the Information Commissioner's Office and the Office of Surveillance Commissioners
The winner?
Talkback In the battle between open-source, standards-based and proprietary vendor-controlled, there will only be one winner. The fact that the vendor in question is Microsoft just adds the garnish.
Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
News At the TechEd conference, Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing
Chicken soup for the software programmer’s soul
Blog Fans of the inspirational “Chicken Soup” series will already know that these feel-good-factor books are designed to provide the same soulful uplift that a bowl of comforting broth brings us on a...
EC reforms aim to smooth path to fibre era
News A number of telcoms reforms are being debated by the European Parliament, with one aim being to overcome hindrances to wider uptake of fibre broadband
Microsoft plans four updates on Patch Tuesday
News The software giant has forewarned IT departments to expect four security bulletins for Tuesday
Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
News Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology
Security Threats
Talkback As part of the article, you touched upon the security of mobile devices. This forms a major crux to data security and items such as USB pen drives are extremely easy to overlook. At the recycling...
Chrome is simple, but I want features!
Blog Chrome is still my default browser, and there are everyday things I can't do so easily in it as in Firefox. Perversely. I think what I want is a Google Toolbar for Chrome... The issues come...
Running a WEEE recycling plant
Blog IT-Green is currently undergoing some major changes and I guess it's fair to say that being one of 2 directors, I'm in the driving seat (not to blow my own trumpet or anything) . Lets get one...
Tech Tsar is spot on.
Talkback Why don't they open our post too while they are at it? Why not put cameras into every home as well, after all, those that constantly say they have nothing to hide...
Heathrow Terminal 5 gets Wi-Fi hotspot
News The hotspot, supplied by T-Mobile, is the largest indoor network in the UK, covering an area the size of 50 football pitches
Broadband outcasts to get next-gen networks first
News Ofcom's Consumer Panel says UK regions without broadband should be first in line to get next-generation networks
Sony Vaio notebooks recalled due to overheating
News Worldwide, the company is recalling around 438,000 Vaio TZ-series notebooks that may overheat and cause burns
Microsoft's Office in the cloud hits one million users
News Six months after its beta launch, one million customers have signed up to the Office Live Workspace online collaboration tool
Labour tech tsar attacks gov't comms-database plan
News Andrew Miller, chair of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee, has warned the planned database may hold too much data to be useful
Mental (S)ill(i)ness on both sides of the pond.
Talkback I have no idea what the "cracker" did or did not do. $700,000 of damage is BS when a $150 1TB hard-drive is likely all the backup space necessary to backup what he allegedly managed to hack into....
RE:Google Chrome - first benchmarks. Summary: wow.
Blog Comment That IS an interesting dilemma for Microsoft. I suppose if one really suspected the worse in people, you could imagine that nothing would stop them from "optimizing" their browser to work slightly...
