Previous DayIt is nice to see a hope for some competition.
Talkback Hopefully there will be some competition in the netbooks when it comes to OS. That will also increase competition on other software to be used on these netbooks. In other words; the "chicken and...
Best coverage apparently all at sea!
Talkback If someone was to take the time to redraw the maps removing the considerable amounts of purple that are over the sea then the true - pretty abysmal - picture would be portrayed!
Met will not reopen phone hack investigation
Blog The Metropolitan Police will not reopen its investigation into alleged phone hacking by the News of the World. In a press statement delivered outside Scotland Yard on Thursday, Assistant...
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News The second stage of BT's £1.5bn rollout of high-speed fibre broadband will kick off in 69 towns and cities around the UK
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive
News Surging prices for Nand-type flash memory have created a new hurdle for the adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive
Orange to exclusively sell Toshiba's 1GHz phone
News The TG01 Windows Mobile handset will be on sale by the weekend, Orange has said
Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualisation
News Citrix's Xen technology will be combined with Fujitsu's servers and workplace virtualisation portfolio to provide an integrated bundle for setting up VDIs
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News Small European businesses need Europe-hosted cloud-computing services within five years, according to telecoms and media commissioner Viviane Reding
First open-source Symbian software released
News The launch of the OS Security Package is the first step in the Symbian Foundation's plan to eventually open source its entire Symbian mobile operating system
Businesses need open access to Europe's fibre
Comment European firms will pay a high price if the EU mishandles access to next-generation fibre networks, says Nick White
Apple patches two critical Safari bugs
News The update fixes two bugs that put Mac and Windows systems at risk of cross-site scripting attacks or of being taken over
Nevertheless
Talkback the technology has been developed and may well rear it's head again, in one 'phorm' or another, seeing the position taken by the government, police and regulators. It is interesting to note that...
XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest
News It was meant to set standards, but from its beginning, XHTML 2 was due a slow demise
Google names Chrome OS hardware partners
News The search and advertising giant has named the companies it will work with to develop hardware to support its Chrome operating system
FUD over ChromeOS's security already?
Blog It hasn't taken long for the security vendors to wake to the potential of Google's new ChromeOS. The potential that is, to create FUD – fear uncertainty and doubt. In a release today, security...
How Google will continue its watch over you
Analysis The company's all-or-nothing approach of tracking user activity means its new OS could leave your privacy compromised
EMC wins Data Domain storage acquisition battle
Blog After a good old fashioned bidding battle, storage company EMC has won control of storage company Data Domain over rival suitor storage company NetApp. DataDomain is best known for its...
Boroughbridge area devoid of any 02 service
Talkback Close to the A1M the town and surrounds of Boroughbridge have been totally been off 02's map of the UK since mobile technology first came in, in the 1980's. Repeated attempts to get them to put a...
Microsoft pilot offers schools 'fairer' software deal
News Under the Subscription Enrolment Schools Pilot, schools will not be required to pay licence fees for systems not being used for educational needs
Sinofsky named as Windows division president
News The former Office executive has been leading engineering efforts in the post-Vista era and will now assume business responsibility as well
Logitech Bluetooth Mouse M555b
Blog Last week I wrote about The RIght Mouse for the Job, and mentioned that Logitech had a new Bluetooth mouse which was not yet available in Switzerland. Sure enough, a couple of days later the...
Google reveals winners of Native Client bug contest
News A researcher who won a bug-finding contest says Google Native Client technology is architecturally sound
TalkTalk drops Phorm
News The UK internet service provider will not use behavioural advertising technology from Phorm, the companies announced on Wednesday
Privacy Issues
Talkback I don't use the Google Chrome browser because I strongly object to the amount and type of information that it continuously sends back to Google. I have been surprised that there has been very...
