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Talkback Anybody old enough to remember VAX/VMS clusters? Sometimes new technology is not so good as the old!!!
Pfizer PCs used to relay Viagra spam
News The drug manufacturer is playing host to Trojan software, which is sending spam software from 138 of its IP addresses
Innovative tech at Cambridge open day
Photo From flying saucers to sniffer bees; an open day at Cambridge University gave entrepreneurs and start-ups the chance to demonstrate their ideas
Happy 20th birthday, GSM
Leader GSM followed three rules to global revolution. Today's revolutionaries take note
Sage shaping up to take on its rivals
Q&A The software vendor is keen to redefine itself as a supplier of more than just accountancy and payroll software as it faces a growing threat from the likes of Microsoft
Nokia unveils quad-core security platform
News A collaboration between Nokia, Intel and Check Point has led to the release of a firewall/VPN platform based on two quad-core Xeon processors
Analysts quash Google Gphone rumours
News Industry observers have questioned both the probability of Google launching a mobile device and the evidence behind the rumours
Fresh concerns over mobile use in hospitals
News Researchers in the Netherlands have warned that critical-care equipment is vulnerable to interference from GPRS and UMTS mobile phones
Mozilla releases beta of open-source Eudora
News The former Qualcomm email application will be a branded offshoot of Mozilla's current open-source email offering, Thunderbird
Microsoft boosts Office for Mac's business features
News Office 2008 for Mac is starting to get business features that had previously been lacking, such as out-of-office email capability
Wanna watch a laptop burn?
Blog Once upon a time we used to write stories about notebooks bursting into flame, but these days it's a well-documented - if very occasional - part of the wonderful world of computer batteries. ...
Adobe plans speedier Flash Media Server
News An upgrade will be released next year, and promises performance nearly twice as fast as the existing server
Breathalyser source code causes legal standoff
News A tussle between Minnesota authorities over access to a breathalyser's source code may see charges in a drink-driving case dropped
A brave 'new' world?
Talkback As a developer who has been using multi-threading techniques for 6 years all I can say is welcome to a brave new world. The challenges of parallelism and thread synchronisation are far outweighed...
The living web and organic information systems
Blog As part of the dConstruct 2007: User Experience Design Conference I had the opportunity this morning to speak with George Oates the lead designer behind Flickr. George describes herself as an...
HP's new iPAQs
Photo HP has revamped its iPAQ range with no fewer than five new products, ranging from state-of-the-art smartphones to 'classic' PDAs.
US: Net-neutrality regulations unnecessary
News The Department of Justice has warned the Federal Communications Commission against the adoption of extensive rules on net neutrality
Computers 4 Africa
Talkback Hey George, Thanks for your message - it's good to see Microsoft putting some of its marketing muscle behind a venture like this. However I have heard some slightly worrying things concerning...
HP unveils new quad-core servers
News The company's new systems are designed for data-intensive applications in virtualised environments
How big was Orange's outage?
Blog We're getting some conflicting reports here about a service outage that affected Orange customers on Wednesday evening. On the one hand, we have Modaco talking about a 4-hour-plus outage cutting...
Researchers: Cyberattacks outstripping defences
News Changing techniques and increasingly sophisticated codes are making it difficult to completely protect against hackers' attacks
Computers 4 Africa supports this initiative
Talkback Computers 4 Africa is pleased to be involved and supports this initiative We think that this is the best out there, in being the most environmentally friendly and socially responsible project of...
AMD gives Linux a graphics boost
News Overcoming ATI's earlier objections, AMD is actively co-operating on open-source software to support its graphics chips
GSM mobile reaches 20th birthday
News The world's most popular mobile telecommunications standard has its 20th birthday this Friday
