Previous DayWhere have all the Firefox Search Engines gone?!
Blog I recently went to add a Search Engine to Firefox and found that the Add-ons web site has had an overhaul. “Cool” I thought “but where the heckedy heck are all the Search Engines?”. Or words to...
Does remote working work?
Blog I’m soon to engage in some dream fulfilment, moving out of London to live by the sea in the south west of England. I'm intrigued about the possibility of working remotely, and how effective that...
Information Commissioner is on Phorm
Blog Well lookee here. Just four days after publishing a considered opinion on the highly controversial web/ad/monitoring/trialling tech company Phorm - an opinion seen by many as a "green light for...
Adobe owns up
Talkback Adobe has responded to me and told me that their LiveDocs information was wrong, and since I have posted this comment on the first fifty news items I could find on Google, I think I should follow...
IPS wants service pilots for ID cards
News The Identity and Passport Service is talking to government departments about how identity cards may be used to support service delivery
What's in the box, HTC?
Blog HTC are about to launch something. Somewhere. That's about all I can tell you. I - along with what's turned out to be a very limited number of hacks - am down for a launch of some kind on 6...
Via project to boost Linux support
News Via Technologies has launched a project to improve support for open-source development around its products
Off Topic (slightly)
Talkback I came across the blog on ThinkFree's upgrade to be implemented on 7th April 2008. http://blog.thinkfree.com/2008/03/24/quantum-leap-thinkfree-will-launch-the-new-service-site-on-april-7th-2008/...
Survey scurvy
Blog Everybody knows that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and that surveys are the lowest form of marketing. But assuming that there’s some whisper of truth in these things I do continue to scan many...
Gartner: IT innovation can rescue US from recession
News IT staff have to both identify and solve business needs to lift the country out of a financial downturn, says the analyst house
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
Review Despite an underpowered CPU, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC offers the best balance of small size, comfort and functionality we've seen in a mini-notebook, making it a favourite for on-the-go use.
RSA calls for 'thinking' security systems
News The president of RSA has called for security systems that use artificial intelligence, while BT's chief security technology officer Bruce Schneier warns this won't allow for the problem of false...
Experts divided over cyber-terrorist threat
News Senior US government and military figures claim the security threat to critical national infrastructures is high, but experts disagree over the success of cryptography in countering this threat
Symantec, RSA call for unified data-breach law
News At the RSA security conference the vendors argued the case for a single US federal data-breach notification law, echoing similar demands last year in the UK
RE:Skype 3.8 Beta Release - Ho Hum, Same Old Bugs
Blog Comment Update: It has now been a week since Skype released 3.8 beta. The "experts" in the Skype User Forum have been feverishly telling anyone and everyone to try the new beta release in hopes of solving...
Cisco sees its future in the datacentre
News The company is expanding its fledgling datacentre strategy by releasing a second switching product family and by buying out the company that developed it
The last mile
Talkback ISPs who advertise high speeds up to 24 Mb/s may be capable of delivering it at source but the true speed at destination depends entirely on distance from the exchange. There is a broadband...
Intel gives C++ a parallel life
News The company's Ct programming model may help C and C++ developers take advantage of a parallel computing without changing any code
Nato creates cyber-defence command
News The Cyber Defence Management Authority will co-ordinate Nato allies' defences against online attacks on national infrastructures
UK a hotbed of cybercriminal activity
News The Internet Crime Complaint Center claims the UK hosts 15.3 percent of the global cybercriminal population, second only to the US
Microsoft publishes more protocol documentation
News The software giant has posted online another 14,000 pages of protocol documentation for its programs, bringing the total so far to 44,000
Symantec: Phishers targeting social-networking sites
News A report from the security company claims 66 percent of phishing attacks in the US in 2007 were aimed at social-networking sites
