Previous DayInnovation is still key to online success
Talkback "Neither it nor Yahoo has been stellar in innovating online of late, and their combined force is showing no signs of changing that. But now, it doesn't have to." If this is Microsoft’s attitude...
What is the MPS (Main Protection System) ?
Blog What is the MPS? MPS is a new method to find threats on computer systems, this method uses by a security model to analyze software resources on windows. This security model is analyzing the...
Microsoft comments on Vista SP1 kernel reports
News Vista APIs have been extended to 'patch' the kernel and aid 64-bit application development, the company has claimed
Faltering for weeks
Talkback I tried to submit my SA over a week before the deadline and had some serious problems. I would get part way through the sequence of screens, hit next and get an error page. I then had to try and...
Ambient Assisted Living
Blog I'm in Amsterdam for a meeting with AMD's CTO, Phil Hester, and various other Amdites. They're going to tell us about accelerated computing, stream computing, and manufacturing, and I guess we're...
NHS loses thousands of smartcards
Blog Not a week seems to go by at the moment without data loss reports - normally involving public sector bodies. The BBC reports that NHS staff have lost at least 4,147 of the cards, which give...
£100 giveaway to keep Homebrew Blog cooking
Blog The first thing people told us about our recent Homebrew Challenge was that it was great to hear from other enthusiasts about their home tech projects. The second thing was that they really...
Canonical distributes Parallels via desktop update
News Ubuntu users can now get access to Parallels Workstation for Linux via the operating system's built-in update tool
Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog Blimey - this one came in quietly. Fasthosts, the ISP and hosting company, are offering Microsoft Office on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. That means that, from £5 plus VAT per month, you...
Poor sales prompt BT Fusion rethink
News Although analysts say businesses have taken to the fixed/mobile service, sales in other areas have been poor
KPMG warns of fraud increase
Blog "The truth is that one reason fraud levels have been increasing recently is that technology has enabled more frauds to be committed. Where there is opportunity, there is fraud." So says...
Cracking open the Radio Shack TRS-80 CoCo
Photo ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins takes a look inside a deconstructed Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer
Vista downgrade product prompts lots of U Turns!!
Blog Now that NEC has officially launched a product to let network administrators downgrade machines running Windows Vista to XP, others have followed suit and jumped on the bandwagon of change. Sir...
Vista downgrade
Talkback You are absolutely correct! OS choice should be the consumer's choice, not a monopolistic company in Redmond. Computer manufacturers should be allowed to ship PCs with no OS pre-installed. That is...
consumer excitement.....
Talkback One would think that a company, being in business over 25 years, would learn to produce what the consumer wants. Oh no, they try to re-invent the the operating system and force the customer to...
Chasing memory breakthroughs at IBM Almaden
Photo Scientists at the company's Almaden Research Center are aiming to leap years ahead with new types of hardware for storing data
Europe still top source of spam
News For the third month running, compromised computers in Europe have pushed out more spam than those in the US
Pity that BT say otherwise ...
Talkback Sitting in a small village in southern Berkshire over the past weekend I received a telephone call from a good friend who had lost her internet connection. Having set this system up for my...
Three undersea cables damaged five times
Blog According to the Khaleej Times online, three undersea cables have been damaged in five places in the past two weeks. The SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) cable, the...
Torvalds admits concerns over patents
Video Founder and co-ordinator of the Linux kernel Linus Torvalds reveals his concerns about users' lack of control over software patents, and the issue of slow storage
Mitch Kapor: Does Microsoft-Yahoo make sense?
Video The software industry veteran shares his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its bid for Yahoo, and what the deal might mean to Google and Facebook
HMRC still owed millions by EDS
News The outsourcing company has repaid little of a £26.5m sum owed to HMRC as compensation for the tax-credits IT fiasco
Gov't body spends on environmental data
News The Technology Strategy Board will provide £10m for the development of data-gathering technology for dealing with environmental problems
3CX Phone System for Windows
Review Very easy to configure and manage, the 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services. Scalability could be an issue for...
Co-op goes green with automatic system-shutdown
News The Co-operative Group hopes to cut costs and CO2 emissions by fitting food stores with a program that will automatically switch off most machines out of hours
HMRC extends late-fee amnesty after site crash
News The late-filing penalty has now been waived for those people who filed tax returns online over the weekend, following problems with the HMRC website on deadline day
Google Australia wants techies home from UK
News Due to a shortage of senior engineers with 'world-class experience' in Australia, the search giant is directing recruitment efforts to London to tempt ex-pats home
Skype Update 3.6.0.248 - Well, Maybe...
Blog As mentioned last night, Skype appears to have made some sort of attempt to release an update yesterday. Like so many other things with Skype, it just didn't quite work right - but this time they...
