Previous DayYes it is a mess
Talkback The whole conception is a mess and a badly thought out one. The purpose for it's being has not been well justified or explained and it seems like the proverbial sledgehamer to crack a walnut. But...
Obama and team set to make their mark on tech
Roundup Barack Obama pulls in Silicon Valley execs to his transition team as he gets ready to take on the job of US president
Home secretary defends high-street biometrics plans
News Jacqui Smith has said biometric enrolment for ID cards in high-street businesses would not pose a risk to security
Windows 7 location smarts spark privacy debate
Analysis A new interface paves the way for more software makers to more easily make use of location information, although the move also raises potential privacy issues
Think the unthinkable
Talkback I hope the security overview looks further back than Beijing. Perhaps even as far back as Munich!! The threat of terrorist military style action is very present and I hope that the expertise of...
Researchers claim WPA crack
Blog German malware researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck are due to give a presentation next week at the PacSec conference on a crack of WPA, a wireless encryption protocol. The crack comes out of...
AMD, Red Hat demo cross-platform live migration
News The companies have posted a video online showing how they can move virtual machines between Intel and AMD platforms without requiring systems to be shut down
RE:Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.0
Blog Comment I installed OO3 using the first method and when I updated, it updated the kernel as well, and stopped my wireless card from working. Not good. It turned out ath_pci had been blacklisted in...
Safeguarding the Olympic Games
Video Atos Origin discusses the lessons learned from handling security at the Beijing Olympics, and how they will be applied to London 2012
Some more words with Seagate
Blog At the meeting with Bill Watkins, chief executive of Seagate, on Tuesday he did not just talk about solid state storage and its future. He is an outgoing and cheerful man who wants he started...
US looks beyond the perimeter for cyberdefence
Video A top US Department of Homeland Security official talks about the cybersecurity challenges facing the US and UK governments
IT illiteracy drags on UK economy
News The UK is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic IT literacy among employees, according to City & Guilds
UK warned: Broadband speeds will dive without fibre
News By competing on price rather than investin gin next-gen broadband networks, the UK risks a future of declining broadband speeds, an analyst has warned
VeriSign: Internet infrastructure still vulnerable
News The operator of two of the web's root servers has warned that the net is still vulnerable to attack, through lack of infrastructure investment
Intel chief: Recession can't halt innovation
News At the Web 2.0 Summit, Paul Otellini showed off a number of internal prototypes and said that, despite the economic climate, a relentless pursuit of innovation is critical to the IT industry
Re: True, for software which is commoditized
Talkback : Some much larger things have become near : commodities, like Linux, because the demand : huge so there's enough motivation for an open : source market to develop. You speak of Linux as if it is a...
True, for software which is commoditized
Talkback Your underlying economic theory starts with the assumption that the good in question is a commodity. Some software is - for example, utilities to zip and unzip and other small, commonly used and...
RE:Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog Comment "OK?", I thought. "What is the picture of the trailing edge of a plane's wing got to do with electronics?" 2 points for whoever picked the illustration, it sucked me right into reading the...
'Millennials' demand consumer tech at work
News Businesses must provide access to iPhones, Facebook, instant messaging and open-source software if they want to attract the next generation of workers, a report has found
Microsoft may ship Windows 7 by next Christmas
News At WinHEC, the software maker provided the clearest public indication yet of when Vista's successor will ship
Adobe fixes flaws in Flash Player, ColdFusion
News The software firm has issued patches for critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, and hot fixes for affected ColdFusion products
RE:Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examination...
Blog Comment I'm not an expert but, to my mind, programming is the application of different mathematical algorithms . If I went to the IPO and said I want to patent maths they'd tell me to b*gger off. Ergo...
Obama's search for a national CTO
Analysis As Barack Obama's transition team assembles an administration, it could look to one of its own to fill the role of chief technology officer
Microsoft turns spotlight on Windows 7 Server
News Officially known as Windows Server 2008 R2, the product is considered a 'minor release' but is noteworthy for supporting more processors as well as being the first 64-bit-only release
Blackberry Storm has an occluded front
Blog RIM and Vodafone turned up at our front door yesterday, in their Review Bus. We'd had warning: "We'll be outside your office at 16:10. We may have room for you." My lord, what a way to show off...
The rise of the column-based database
Blog I always get the feeling that I need to tread carefully when talking about the relationship between developers and DBAs and that there might be some sense of hostility between the two based upon...
Obama appoints tech execs to transition team
News Google.org's Sonal Shah and former InterActiveCorp exec Julius Genachowski have been chosen for Barack Obama's transition team
Google.org: Tech industry can help save the world
News Dr Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google's philanthropic arm, says the IT industry has a major role to play in tackling climate change and global disease
Bletchley Park gets grant for urgent repairs
News English Heritage has granted the codebreaking centre £330,000 to repair, and prevent further damage to, its Grade II-listed mansion
Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.0
Blog Those who have installed the new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) release have probably noticed that it does not include the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 release. Apparently Canonical decided that the...
Photos: Vodafone BlackBerry Storm
Photo Vodafone and Research in Motion (RIM) have been showing off the new BlackBerry Storm, which is due to go on sale on 14 November.
Apple snatches second place for smartphone sales
News Analyst firm Canalys reported a 28 percent jump in smartphone sales over last year, with the iPhone 3G launch vaulting Apple ahead of RIM
Ballmer 'not interested' in fresh Yahoo bid
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has ruled out another offer for Yahoo, as the web pioneer seeks to return to the negotiating table
RE: Bursting the proprietary-software bubble
Talkback A fine analysis, great insights. I retired 4 years ago after 34 years in the computer industry and have seen the seismic shifts over the period. Just look at the number of proprietary vendors that...
