Previous DayRE:EC gives 'police remote search' answers
Blog Comment So after hacking into the machine of a well known anti-government activist who has given them a hard time, they just happen to 'find' child pornography. On the other hand, surely even a half-way...
£1,000 up for grabs at Last.fm hack day
Blog Just a quick post to let developers with a penchant for speed writing know that Last.fm, the online music service, is holding a hack day on Sunday, 14 December in London. The challenge is to build...
EC gives 'police remote search' answers
Blog After chasing the European Commission for over a week about what exactly it meant by police being able to perform "remote searches" of systems, one of the Commission spokespeople finally got back...
Lack of buzz
Talkback I've been following the dot tel domains story, and even with the open registrations, I would suggest there hasn't been a big wave of interest. To me, it's a combination of lack of knowledge on what...
Google links to Salesforce.com cloud
News The companies have introduced a link between their cloud-computing services to allow developers to create web apps drawing upon both platforms
Google launches SIM-unlocked Android phone
News The company has announced the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software
Wind up the Internet Watch Foundation
Leader When web services suffer in the name of censorship, freedom becomes a commercial imperative
IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study
News A grid-computing project led by Harvard University seeks to identify which organic materials would perform best as electricity-generating solar cells
Public must wait until 2009 for web-based Office
News Microsoft has started limited internal testing of the browser-based versions of Excel, PowerPoint and Word, but the public will have to bide their time until next year
Re-use Begins at Home
Blog If you talk to anyone in the trade (of hawking SOA solutions, that is), their first answer to the "Why SOA?" question is usually re-use. Their second is: "Do you want to buy some (new) software to...
Cisco unveils strategy for video-optimised networks
News The company has designed a new architecture and products to help customers better handle video traffic on their network
Carphone Warehouse co-founder resigns
News David Ross, co-founder of the Carphone Warehouse, has resigned over company shares pledged for personal loans
Plan B Disaster Recovery
Review Plan B's disaster recovery service is particularly attractive to small and medium-sized companies with a handful of business-critical servers that need protecting with minimal effort from in-house...
CIOs plan to make the most of tight budgets in 2009
News Squeezing the most out of existing IT budgets and making sure projects pay back quickly look set to be the top priorities for chief information officers next year
Gov't grants £250m for tech-research centres
News The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will provide £250m in funding for 44 new PhD research centres at 22 universities across England and Scotland
Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog Having recently worked with Sun to provide a surface-level overview of its Java training facilities, a resource caught my eye this week that was labeled as 'A community site for Java developers' -...
IEEE pact to foster development of patent pools
News Technical standards developer IEEE is collaborating with Via Licensing to encourage intellectual-property holders to form patent pools
Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors
News The company has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that could cut the cost of fibre-optic communications to a fraction of their current value
Moon satellite mission moves closer to blast-off
News The technological and financial feasibility of the UK-led MoonLite mission, which aims to put a satellite in orbit around the moon, is set to be probed
Ubuntu Mobile Broadband Disappointment
Blog Some time ago I wrote about using mobile broadband with Ubuntu, and I was very hopeful at that time that it would soon be "plug in and click to connect". Unfortunately it hasn't turned out that...
EDS chief to retire
News Chief executive Ronald Rittenmeyer will retire as of 31 December, according to EDS parent company HP
Nearly 1m people's DNA may be wiped off database
News Following an EU ruling, the DNA details of around 850,000 people suspected of a crime but later cleared could be removed from the UK's database
Ingres: Cloud computing to fuel open-source boom
News Software-as-a-service vendors will turn to open source in order to lower the costs incurred by their hardware and software requirements, says the database firm
Ballmer: Yahoo search pact 'makes great sense'
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer says it would be better to make a search deal with the web pioneer sooner rather than later
HTC Touch HD
Review Although the Touch HD's 3.8in. display makes it big and difficult to pocket, it also makes data-rich activities like web browsing much more rewarding than they are on smaller devices.
Dialogue Box 5.3: Solid-state disk torture test
Video Last year Dialogue Box showed that radiation could affect data-transfer rates on solid-state disks. How does the latest generation of products stand up to a similar zapping? Rupert and Charles don...
RE:UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Blog Comment Roger, One of the two URLs that they've blocked is that to the image page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg I should probably point out that the reason it's blocked...
