Previous DayCompliance – Part 2a: Data Protection
Blog Complying with the The Data Protection Act (DPA) like most compliance tasks is part government imposed chore and part something you really should be doing anyway, as much due to risks to the...
Find a need and fill it
Talkback "Find a need and fill it" - the number one rule for businesses that want to stay in business. Good to see that Novell is finding a need in the areas of identity management, security and reducing...
HP and Salesforce could be made for each other
Blog Sometimes an executive can deny something while opening the door to speculation. HP offices did that on Tuesday when while maintaining they could see no reason why their company would have an...
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
Photo Cern has released pictures of the impact of a liquid helium leak in September
HP dismisses cloud 'hype'
News Top HP software execs say that, while the computing models represented by 'the cloud' are important, they don't like the name or associated hype
Cloud from Amazon blows into Europe
Blog Amazon has created a European zone in its EC2 cloud, quoting fault tolerance, data separation and stability as reasons for giving the Old World a place of its own. Because it's a brand new region,...
HP iPAQ Data Messenger
Review HP's new flagship iPAQ has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a neat D-pad and a good set of connectivity features. However, HP has missed some key tricks that would make this an excellent rather than...
Web traders singled out as tax-revenue threat
News According to the government's spending watchdog, individuals who don't declare their capital gains and income tax could be costing Britain up to £2bn a year
Microsoft issues six 'critical', two 'important' patches
News The eight patches affect Visual Basic 6, IE, Word, Excel, Windows Search, SharePoint and Windows Media Components
BT data-sharing tool to help disaster-relief efforts
News Due to go live in 2009, the £2m National Resilience Extranet will link more than 1,000 organisations involved in emergency-response and rescue efforts
Police did not search parliamentary server
Blog The police did not access Damian Green's emails, or the parliamentary server, the speaker of the House has told MPs. According to an article on the BBC, Speaker Michael Martin told MPs that "no...
Google Chrome coming out of beta
Blog According to Steve Gillmor on Techcrunch, Google vp Marissa Mayer has announced that the company's Chrome browser is coming out of beta, just three months after it was unveiled. This is a truly...
Virtualisation to put consumer tech in the workplace
News Industry observers say virtualisation will enable staff to use their own devices at work, while keeping corporate data safe
RE:UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Blog Comment They have realised quite how counter-productive it's been... and it has to be said, more people must have seen that album cover in the past few days than it ever sold copies.
Symantec, VMware team up for disaster recovery
News The security and virtualisation vendors will provide support for mutual customers using VMware ESX and Veritas Cluster Server
Internet watchdog U-turns on Wikipedia ban
News The Internet Watch Foundation has reversed its decision to prevent users from visiting a Wikipedia page showing a rock band's album cover
Sun plans Flash-based servers, storage for 2009
News Sources say the company is aiming for a first-quarter debut, hoping for major performance boost
LG X110 netbook with 3G mobile broadband
Blog The netbook has been the computing phenomenon of 2008. Packing some hardware into a tiny notebook chassis and flogging the result as a low cost connected computer has proved a real moneyspinner for...
Sun puts Network.com grid-computing service on ice
News The company appears to have put its pioneering grid-computing effort on hold while a new direction is sought for the service
Google's Android Alliance gains 14 new members
News New members, including Vodafone, have joined the organisation aimed at further developing the Android operating system
Software is HP's fastest growing unit
News Software has turned into a multi-billion dollar business for HP, but the company is choosing to adopt a cautious approach to the cloud, saying it will not be a cure-all solution for businesses
Irradiated sound!
Talkback I fear that Charles and Rupert may have been irradiated during the disk torture test. Charles is on the left and Rupert is on the right (as you watch), but in glorious stereo Charles smooth tones...
RE:Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog Comment Oh how the Mac fraternity love to kick Microsoft. The so short memories of Bill digging into the coffers some years ago to keep Apple alive are ringing in my ears. An Apple so destraught, it begged...
Obama urged to appoint cybersecurity chief
News A US tech commission says president-elect Barack Obama should establish a new White House office to tackle 'one of the most urgent national security problems'
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Mandriva has been struggling recently, to say the least, and they brought on a new CEO a month or so ago. Apparently one of the first things that CEO did was fire Adam Williamson, their Community...
ID-card contracts allow suppliers to be searched
News The government will be able to search the premises of companies working on the National Identity Scheme, in the interests of 'robust data protection'
Experts split over recession's effect on hi-tech crime
News The economic downturn may cause an acceleration in cybercrime, according to Lord Erroll, but not all experts agree
UK techies happy to migrate for the right job
News A survey has found the majority of UK tech workers are ready to up sticks and move abroad if the right work opportunity came along
RE:What's your pet iPhone peeve ?
Blog Comment My pet peeve about iPhones is that anybody with one has to show it off or blog about it. Who gives a d___ about a $300 "almost-a-PDA-MP3-Player" phone? You want a cell phone, go out and buy a cell...
RE:HP's Hogan glories in growth
Blog Comment This is the mistake yahoo have made over the years from my perspective. Lots of different companies bolted together without a clear direction or focus. Of course with HP you have to hope that with...
"I'll show you mine if you show me yours"
Talkback OK. Its nice that everybody is talking advertising "dis-armament". How does Vint Cerf or Joe Bureaucrat verify that they've anonymised their collected data? What's to keep them from ftp-ing it to...
