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Archive - 06 Nov 2006

Is the corporate line obscuring the real security message?

Blog It's curious how two telecoms companies have both been broken into in the last fortnight. No-one's pointed out a link, but the two telcos operate similar businesses just down the road from each...

Office 2007 code is frozen

News Microsoft has finalised the code for the next version of Office, but is still working on Vista

China to launch home-grown 3G by Olympics?

News Promotion of nationalised standards leads to uncertainty over which 3G service will be used in China

Talking airline tech

Blog I am off to interview Jim Peters CTO of airline technology company SITA tomorrow. Will be interesting to pose some questions that frustrate me as a passenger - like why do airlines still insist on...

Free broadband? Here's one better

Blog There's no such thing as a free lunch, as offerings from Carphone Warehouse, Orange et al have proven - they may call it free broadband, but you still have to pay for something, whether it's mobile...

Poor business case could hobble WiMax

News Analysts suggest DSL will win in the developed world, while deploying WiMax in the developing world will prove too costly

Anti-Social Networking

Talkback Rather sneaky but expected after numerous graffiti attempts it was only a matter of time until someone engineered and abused a Wiki in this way. Truley sad to see it used like this, as it's an...

Why every child deserves a laptop

Comment Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux specialist Red Hat, thinks that the One Laptop per Child scheme embodies what's best about free and open software

The MacBook Pro's 'missing' GB of RAM

Blog If you study the specifications of the recently released Core 2 Duo-based Apple MacBook Pro, you may be puzzled by the quoted RAM limit of 3GB. The notebook has a pair of DIMM slots that can...

IT managers increasingly in demand

News If you can turn new ideas into great IT products and services, companies will be fighting for your services, says PwC

IT spending soars in financial sector

News Financial firms are spending around £10,000 per employee on IT each year, while computing expenditure lags behind in the public sector

Time to simplify security software

Interview Risto Siilasmaa, chief executive of F-Secure, explains why internet security needs to be made less complex

Vodafone vows to spike mobile platforms

News Operator is working on tighter application integration with Microsoft, and aims to trim away proprietary platforms in favour of Windows Mobile and Linux

Wikipedia used to spread malware

News An entry in the popular online encyclopaedia was hijacked to direct users to malicious code

Apple MacBook Pro (15.4in., 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo)

Review If you've been holding off on making the leap to a MacBook because of the lack of Core 2 Duo processors, this new update adds the latest Intel CPUs and provides a great overall computing experience...

Wozniak leads Apple anniversary celebrations

News Several hundred flocked to California's Computer History Museum for an afternoon of storytelling about Apple's history

"Old school" business - your opportunity to have fun at the ball?

Blog One of the things we've learned while developing this site is that the old "Web 1.0" model for building web sites doesn’t apply any more. We used to have a pretty slick production line that...

Microsoft ditches Vista transfer limits

News Customers are no longer restricted from installing their copy of Vista on a second PC

Does Microsoft's Novell pact mean war on Linux?

News Last week's surprise alliance between Microsoft and Novell could be the prelude to patent warfare with the open-source industry

Dear Diary

Blog It's the first day of the rest of our online lives: the Diary has turned into a blog, decades of man-years have been poured into our fab new online home, and I'm ready to fire on all cylinders with...

Red Hat offers Linux patent protection

News Linux vendor hits back with its own promise to defend users against intellectual-property attacks

Wibro problems?

Blog The BBC's Click team has done a rundown on the exciting new mobile broadband technologies springing up in South Korea (although we do have HSDPA here too, y'know folks). One interesting point, on...

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