Chinese translation service stutters into life
News Jajah's voice-recognising telephone translation service has an unsteady start, suffering an outage immediately after launch
Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype
News The prototype Firefox extension will bring unified messaging to the open-source browser, if early experiments are promising
Virgin Mobile promises wireless broadband
News The company's new agreement with T-Mobile is set to spur expansion of Virgin Mobile services
Report argues case for EU-US data sharing
News Europe should consider sharing vast amounts of information on its citizens with the US, according to a high-level confidential report by six countries' ministers
Two NHS IT leaders appointed
News Former Cadbury Schweppes CIO Christine Connelly and former Pension Service CIO Martin Bellamy will lead the delivery of NHS IT
RE:Top Tips For Controlling Telecom Costs
Blog Comment hi chris it is of the most annoying things when travelling that data roaming cost with the new era of smart phones are really off the charts . One has to lock down a phone big time and only use...
Yahoo's Zimbra officially embraced by Ubuntu
News The email software will now be in the Ubuntu Partner Repository, providing easy access to both offline and online Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail
Cloud computing moves out of the shadows
News Charles Cooper and Dan Farber look at the catalysts behind a recent rush of cloud-computing announcements
Kaminsky reveals details and extent of DNS flaw
News Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has detailed an underlying flaw in the Domain Name System that opens attack vectors including web browsers and mailservers
HP-developed degree aims to close UK's IT skills gap
News Thames Valley University and HP have created a two-year, part-time foundation degree aimed at providing sought-after tech skills
Telecoms industry opens up to mobile Linux
Video Mobility has been a major theme at this year's LinuxWorld Expo, with large companies such as Motorola encouraging Linux developers to write software for mobile devices
LinuxWorld: Oracle shares plans for green datacentre
Video Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company's new datacentre in Utah that he claims will be its most efficient yet
Councils, IBM face legal action over outsourcing deal
News A trade union is taking IBM and two councils to the employment tribunal, claiming an outsourcing joint venture broke rules on the transfer of public-sector staff
Siemens seeks to end Fujitsu partnership
News As the German conglomerate looks to increase profits, it is considering moving out of the computer industry
Time Warner confirms AOL will be split in two
News The internet-access and media units will be split next year, with speculation mounting that Time Warner will soon divest itself of AOL altogether
Free Wi-Fi arrives at St Pancras
News The 45 million commuters who annually pass through St Pancras International will now be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi throughout the station
Home Office denies e-passports can be faked
News The department has rejected claims that researchers have been able to alter passport-chip data and fool reader systems at border control
Microsoft finalises SQL Server 2008 code
News The company has released the latest version of its database software to manufacturing
Dell claims to be carbon-neutral
News The company says it has met its target of becoming carbon-neutral five months early, but some industry watchers are sceptical
UK's lax wireless security threatens TJX-style hack
News Security experts say poor levels of wireless-network security among low-level UK merchants are putting shoppers' details at risk
RE:The little things that make virtual computing such fun...
Blog Comment Roger, Roger! MediaMonkey runs fine under VirtualBox, but doesn't see the iPhone. Windows seems to identify it as a generic Apple mobile device, but doesn't mount it properly - so it Just Doesn't...
mobileme still broken
Talkback PBS talks as though it was just the launch that was the problem. MobileMe is still broken and so I hope they are not going to "move on". Really getting sick of doing Apples Beta testing for them...
Gartner approves iPhone for limited enterprise use
Blog It appears the Market research firm Gartner is giving a final cautious green light for using the iPhone in big business as it meets it's "appliance-level support status" having rejected the 1.0 2G...



