iPhone 3GS? Apple's real story is elsewhere
Blog So Apple launched a new iPhone, with a faster processor, better camera, video, compass, et cetera. The old 3G iPhone is clearing out of stock at $99. That’s what Moore’s Law does for you. It’s not...
O2 to allow iPhone tethering
Blog One of the many details announced in the Apple WWDC keynote, going on at the moment, was that O2 is one of the iPhone carriers who will allow tethering. Tethering allows the handset to be used...
Apache Stonehenge SOA tool hits first milestone
News The project, which aims to provide developers with a set of sample SOA apps that work across languages and platforms, has seen its first key release
Icann: Coders and ISPs vital to net security
News The internet watchdog says DNSSEC encryption, which makes it harder for hackers to subvert web traffic, will only work if developers and ISPs get behind it
Intel puts more funding behind WiMax
News The chipmaker's investment arm has pumped £27m into UQ Communications's mobile WiMax network in Japan
UK Bing use falls after initial few days
Blog Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, saw a brief spurt of popularity in the UK before its usage levels fell, according to the web monitoring service Hitwise. Hitwise research director Robin Goad...
Channel hopping to third party virtualisation
Blog I’ve never claimed to be an IT channel journalist. In fact, I was at a lunch with the newly reborn Gateway (no longer 2000) recently alongside some tech channel press and was suitably impressed by...
Photos: two rugged Windows Mobile handhelds
Photo Need a handheld that can stand up to life on the road, or in a warehouse? Check out the latest offerings from Motorola and Getac.
Lawyer: Home Office unlikely to U-turn on hacker
News A change of home secretary is not likely to alter the government's position on Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US, according to McKinnon's solicitor
Gartner: IT budgets squeezed further
News Almost half of CIOs surveyed by the research firm said they spent less on IT in the first quarter than they had initially planned
Experts highlight barriers to cloud adoption
Video Cloud-computing pundits spell out the issues that are holding back the technology
Report: China wants censorship software on PCs
News The Chinese government plans to require all PCs sold in the country to be shipped with software that blocks access to certain websites, according to The Wall Street Journal
Hacker joins US Homeland Security in advisory role
News Defcon founder Jeff Moss has joined former FBI and CIA directors on the US Homeland Security Advisory Council
Reboot bandicoot!
Blog An old friend of mine, Download Dave, used to shout out “Reboot bandicoot!” every time his mac used to crash. This was a cultural reference to Crash Bandicoot, a computer game from...
PayPal, Picnik partner up with Yahoo Mail
News The latest partners in the Open Strategy offer ways to help you make payments from your email inbox, offering users yet more to do from within Yahoo
Dialogue Box 6.7: Testing solid-state disks
Video SSDs are now available with capacities of up to 256GB, but prices remain high enough to make them uneconomic in the datacentre for the foreseeable future. Rupert and Charles outline the solid state...



