Previous DayRE:Do we need a biometric passport?
Blog Comment £4billion indeed, so thats £20,000 for a keyboard, £50,000 for a monitor...etc etc. incredible, even in this day and age we are in the realms of really big money here. And, to put these figures...
Date set for Firefox 3.1 beta
News Mozilla developers aim to release a test version of the update to the public later this month
Gov't spends over £18m on comms surveillance
News ISPs have received over £18m from the government in the past five years to cover the costs of collating databases of communications information
RE:Skype Pursuing "Unarticulated Needs"
Blog Comment Mr. Durchslag, Isn't it ironic that your surveys indicate that 70% of users prefer the 4.0 beta to 3.8! My survey indicates that 98% of users think the 4.0 beta release is the ugliest, worst piece...
Ubuntu unified communications suite released
News Unison Technologies and Canonical have announced a unified communications system — including email, IM, a PBX, contacts and calendaring — that runs on top of Ubuntu Linux
Integrating Apple's iPhone into the enterprise
Video At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, tech execs discuss the iPhone and whether they plan to use the device across their companies
Protect your mobile devices in any location
News Forget the recent hype about about Chinese hackers — users and organisations should be securing mobile systems as a matter of course, so follow these tips to find out how
TSA finds lost laptop - in office where it was lost
Blog The US Transportation Security Administration has found a laptop that was reported missing more than a week ago. It was found in the same office it was lost from. According to the San Francisco...
IBM goes open source on supercomputers
News The company has integrated and open sourced a set of tools used on some of the world's top supercomputers
RE:All our computers are belong to Microsoft
Blog Comment If they have been using Linux from 1996, then I can understand there would be some incompatibility to vista. But Linux today is much different than the 1996 version. Because todays Linux can do...
Alleged TJX hackers charged
News Eleven people have been charged with hacking eight major US retailers, including TJX, but only three are currently in custody
Twitter plays host to data-stealing malware
News Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers
Orange launches remote device-management service
News The hosted service will let IT managers send updates to employees' handsets, turn off specific functionalities and wipe the devices if needed
Mobile data rates too high
Talkback I couldn't agree with you more. The mobile networks are ripping us off with their data transfer rates. Much as I would likje to use my phone for e-mail and browsing I will not use those facilities...
Jobs admits Apple slipped up on MobileMe
News The CEO has acknowledged problems with the debut of MobileMe and says the company has much more to learn about delivering internet services
IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
News Seizing on slow enterprise uptake of Vista, IBM has teamed up with Canonical, Novell and Red Hat to globally promote PCs without Microsoft software
EC sets aside spectrum for 'intelligent' cars
News 30MHz of spectrum in the 5.9GHz band is to be reserved so cars can communicate with each other, in a bid to beat road accidents and traffic congestion
Cellular tech to dominate wireless-broadband market
News Analysys Mason predicts a massive growth in wireless-broadband services by 2015, with HSPA and LTE taking the lion's share of customers
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog The installation of Vista SP1 completed normally on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to be running normally for the time being. I'm not getting my hopes up too high yet, because this was basically...
Microsoft finalises Powerset deal
News The software giant has officially acquired natural-language search firm Powerset, completing the deal it announced last month
Internet giants agree Beijing 'code of conduct'
News Google, Yahoo and Microsoft say they are close to an agreement on a code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that censor the internet
The little things that make virtual computing such fun...
Blog Dialogue Box filming day, and I'm busy preparing some bits and pieces at home before dashing into work. At least, that was the plan. Today's DB (and if you haven't seen any of the new series...
Gov't puts next-gen telecoms network out to tender
News The £2.5bn network will replace the Government Secure Intranet and encourage data sharing and collaborative working in the public sector
Google boosts Search Appliance capacity
News The customised server, allowing users to search their companies' documents, can now index 10 million rather than three million records
Cisco eyes new markets as downturn curtails profits
News The company is planning to invest across its portfolio in 'adjacent markets', while it waits for the economy to turn around
NetSuite, Zoho see rising uptake of hosted apps
News Accelerated adoption of the companies' online suites is thought to be putting pressure on the traditional business-software market and model
Regulatory compliance is top priority for IT pros
News Data security, regulatory compliance and IT governance will be top of the agenda for IT professionals over the coming year, says Isaca
India emerges as low-cost tech-development hub
News With over 650 R&D centres and a market hungry for tech, the country is churning out innovative products that are low on price, say market players
