Previous DayHP: Greenwash or good intentions?
Blog The PC maker has pledged to clean up its environmental act again – this time via a partnership with the World Wildlife Fund. We’re not sure what the WWF actually brings to the sustainable IT party...
VMworld: Day one roundup
News ZDNet UK assesses the state of the virtualisation market at VMware's Los Angeles gathering, where virtual applications are all the rage
Will the unwary pay Microsoft for free software?
Talkback It may have worried some, because Microsoft will never stop heading for totalitarianism. People will wake up and move their money around differently. If it was a global burger chain launching...
Microsoft push-email row escalates
News Software giant is embroiled in a war of words with a security analyst who claims Windows Mobile 5.0 devices lack important data encryption
Dell sets out new product strategy
News Servers, desktops and notebooks were on display in Barcelona this week, as Dell embraces Intel's quad-core chips
Kerching! One million down...
Blog The million-unbundled-lines mark has just been passed, according to Peter Black, the telecoms adjudicator. Seeing as the target for that to happen was the end of this year, not bad going,...
Hacker dodges prison term
News Suspended prison sentence is given to a hacker for compromising and defacing a dating site
Freebies galore
Blog I thought I'd share with you some of the more interesting items being given out in the exhibition hall at TechEd Developers 2006. In addition to the normal pens and t-shirts, there are a few more,...
It's not easy being green
Leader The idea that an energy company would pay customers up to $4m to cut their electricity usage through virtualisation sounds too good, or too crazy, to be true
Linux die-hard unbundles Windows
Blog I do like it when users stick up for their rights, so this story made me chuckle this morning. This IT professional has taken his rights to the Nth degree, but good on him anyway. In case you...
Penetrating the corporate network
Talkback It's an interesting dilemma for the carriers - their traditional voice revenues have been shot to pieces by IP, and many of them are desperately looking around for other sources of revenue. One...
Last para sums it up.
Talkback If a company infringes a "patent" without knowing of its existance then it must have been an obvious evolution and is therefore not a valid patent in the first place.
Enemies of the internet named
News Reporters Without Borders has called on IT managers to talk to companies that deal with repressive regimes
Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi
Review We like almost everything about the Acer Ferrari 5000, except for the price.
Verizon pushes into Europe
News A fully managed IP PBX service rounds off Verizon Business' UK offering, and could encourage firms to move to VoIP
Siemens mocked for mobile data patent
News Nosoftwarepatents campaign has handed Siemens its Software Patent of the Year award for claiming rights to all mobile data transmission
Gateway latest Opteron convert
News Computer maker has begun selling x86 servers using AMD's Opteron processor
Roaming rip-off puts travellers off phoning home
News EC research has found that Europeans will switch off mobiles or leave them at home to avoid the cost of making calls abroad
London hotels most expensive for Wi-Fi
News Hotels in the capital are charging the highest prices in Europe for Wi-Fi access
VMware sets up virtual-appliance marketplace
News Programme will provide a way to certify and sell virtual appliances
Microsoft paying $308m for Novell deal
News Details of the five-year partnership have been disclosed by Novell in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing
No reason to upgrade to Vista
Talkback There is not much incentive to upgrade to Vista. It is slower, more resource-hungry, and, with the exception of slightly better security, offers no compelling reason for businesses to upgrade....
Spoofing biometrics
Talkback A good example of a biometric vulnerability is when fingerprints are used for door access. A villain can, with a small amount of effort, take a fingerprint from a surface and use it to create a...
