Previous DayScreening the BlackBerry Storm
Blog RIM has finally released a touchscreen phone, the BlackBerry Storm. We got visited by RIM and the phone's UK carrier Vodafone today, all very keen to show off the latest device to temporarily bear...
Broadband industry debates recession, rollout
News Government spending on next-gen broadband could fight the recession — or harm a vulnerable market
Identity not the only aim of US-Visit biometrics
Video US Homeland Security says it wants to use biometric data to find matches with terrorists and fingerprints from crime scenes
Is broadband a utility?
Blog Until today, I'd been pretty sure that you could call broadband a utility. I didn't even question it. But then I went to a Westminster eForum where the topic was one of many to cause a lively...
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News Workers at London City Airport will be forced to participate in a trial of the government's biometrics ID cards, despite government assurances that the scheme would not be compulsory
Start-ups find an edge in the cloud
News Start-ups at a London roundtable believe the cloud puts them 'on an equal footing with big companies'
Orange launches embedded-3G Eee 901
News The operator has upgraded its bundle of netbook-plus-mobile-broadband to include the Atom-based Asus Eee 901, instead of the older Celeron-based Eee 900
ATF and the rest! Recycling e-waste in the UK
Blog Well, we did it. It's been a 3 months slog, but we finally got ATF registration through this week... at a cost of £3500 and many man hours of work. In effect, we went through the hoops of...
So farewell Windows 3.x
Blog Microsoft stopped issuing licenses for Microsoft Windows 3.x software on 1 November after 18 years. After some early mid-steps with versions of Windows that used concepts like "tiling" of...
Number 3 responds!
Talkback I don't mind people calling me 3 for short! My point about the interfaces differences was not simply that MS Office was prettier than Open Office...in a roundabout way I was talking about how...
Microsoft: Windows 7 to regain industry's trust
News The company wants to rebuild hardware and software makers' faith that it will deliver products with the promised features at the promised time, after Vista's let-downs
Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog In the same way that a pillow filled with pebbles is harder to get smooth than one stuffed with sand, chip makers are finding it harder to make transistors behave predictably as they shrink. Here,...
Windows 7 heads to netbooks as well as PCs
News At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, the software maker said its upcoming OS could run on an Eee PC with 'room to spare'
He's a pointer Steve ...
Talkback "I don't really understand their strategy. Maybe somebody else does. If I went to my shareholder meeting, my analyst meeting, and said: 'Hey, we've just launched a new product that has no revenue...
HP virtualises mid-range storage arrays
News The company's network-based storage platform virtualises mid-range arrays into a single pool, designed to simplify scaling and management
Home Office again!
Talkback Yet again we have a ridiculous plan from the Home Office which would be wide open to fraud and misuse - and, surprise, surprise, (think they'd never learn?) data available for loss and theft....
SaaS may not live up to 'recession-proof' tag
Analysis In theory, software-as-a-service vendors such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite should thrive in a downturn — but in practice things may prove a little tougher
ID Card on track says government
Blog This just in on the ongoing ID Card issue. (BTW Bruce Schneier says we shouldn't get all hot and bothered over ID cards as they are just a temporary technology before unseen biometrics take over...
Personal extension
Talkback While a business computer can be regarded as little more than a glorifird "filing cabinet" and communication tool, the personal computer, whatever it's form, is very much an extension of the...
Pre and Post Tipping Point
Talkback I think Mark has it about right. I have been in the Open Source trade for a decade or so and have seen two previous recessions in the UK IT industry. On both those occasions I was more deeply...
What financial crisis?
Talkback More proof that our very well financed MPs are out of touch with the real world and financial crisis we live in. With Government driving us deeper into debt day they want more spending. Perhaps...
Tougher authentication to become more mainstream
Video VeriSign chief technology officer Ken Silva expects more consumer businesses to use increasingly stringent ID methods
Wozniak offers advice to potential innovators
News At a recent conference, famed inventor and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared his experiences as a fledgling computer programmer and advised innovators to 'know who you are'
RE:Microsoft Windows 7 - the reviewers' guide, reviewed
Blog Comment There are lots of multi-touch technologies; I particularly like the ones that use the transistors within the LCD itself to sense touch. You can make those work right up to the resolution of the...
What the Obama presidency means for tech
Analysis Democrats in the White House and Congress may have significant repercussions for net neutrality, trade restrictions and copyright
UWB backers confident despite company closures
News After two key players in the ultrawideband and wireless USB industry collapsed, the WiMedia Alliance has insisted the technology itself is not to blame
Apple now world no 3 smartphone maker to make own chips for iPhone
Blog When Apple bought PA semi last year the usual rumour mills cranked up with expectation that Apple were going into the mobile chip business. It furthered confirmed it would not be using Intel's Atom...
Obama election-win sparks rise in malicious spam
News Spam messages worldwide have begun exploiting Obama's election win to entice people to download malware, security vendors have warned
LinkedIn lays off tenth of workforce
News The business-focused social-networking site is to shed 36 jobs as it focuses on revenue-producing businesses
Obama, McCain campaign PCs compromised
News Newsweek has reported that the FBI and Secret Service told the presidential candidates that their files were accessed by criminal hackers over the summer
Lords votes in favour of DNA-deletion process
News The House of Lords has voted for an amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Bill, which would allow innocent people to have their DNA and fingerprints removed from national databases
AMD cuts 500 jobs
News The chipmaker has reduced its workforce by around three percent to reduce expenses, in the second round of layoffs this year
Free, but for how long?
Talkback Without promoting software *freedom* such gestures are nothing more than a disguised form of lock-in. Get them hooked and ratchet up the price. Nice.
Cisco gives glum outlook as sales slump
News Chief executive John Chambers says Cisco saw a sharp decline in sales during the quarter as customers prepare for an economic downturn
Ballmer dismisses Google Android threat
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said he doesn't understand Google's Android strategy, portraying it as financially unsound
Microsoft offers free software for start-ups
News Under the 'BizSpark' programme, selected start-ups will be allowed to use Windows Server, among other products, for three years at no charge
Police enlist AI to help tackle crime
News A government-funded body is looking into the potential use of AI in web counter-terrorism surveillance, fighting internet fraud, masking identities online and data mining
RE:Software Jihad part 2
Blog Comment Roger what I think they would do is set it up so that unless you wanted something more than basic web browsing it would be just that, a web browser. It probably will be loaded with advertising as...
