Previous DayRE:The iPhone cometh. Maybe.
Blog Comment Sorry, but Jo Best's good take fails to take into account the fact that the mobile phone market is not like the consumer electronics market, in that any product has to be endorsed by the networks...
Lord Sainsbury steps down, won't be missed
Blog Lord Sainsbury's departure as science minister will be hailed by software developers. He was the instrumental in steering the ultimately failed European patent legislation. My lasting impression of...
Motorola buys Good Technology
News Mobile email and security firm snapped up by Motorola, potentially causing a headache for Palm
Peace in our time for Vista?
Leader Jim Allchin's comments that Windows Vista doesn't need any extra security software could stir up further confrontation with antivirus companies, at a time when Microsoft needs all the friends it...
EU body slams biometric ID cards
Blog In a great article on an EU body's report on biometric ID Cards, "Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit", Reg veteran John Lettice concludes: "Could we all be going to wake up...
Denial of service attacks outlawed
News The Police and Justice Bill 2006 makes it illegal to impair the operation of a computer, closing a potential legal loophole
Intel starts producing 1Gbit flash memory
News Gigabit scale, 65nm NOR flash memory from Intel starts to roll off production lines
It was only a matter of time
Blog Auntie reports a YouTube-based video of LA police beating up on someone. In a way, it's incredible to think it's taken this long for something like that to turn up on YT - Rodney King II, anyone?
The iPhone cometh. Maybe.
Blog So is Apple going to introduce its own mobile phone after all? According to this piece from the good folks at InformationWeek, a couple of patents recently acquired by the iPeople could point in...
HP are a rip off
Talkback Does HP think that there would be a market for cheap knock offs of HP inks if HP priced their inks at a proper level? If HP sold their ink cartridges for 8 quid per item i think everyone would buy...
Blue Screen of Death is a 'joke', says anti-virus software
Blog Further to yesterday's post highlighting Microsoft's efforts to offer us a free Blue Screen of Death for download , one reader, an IT manager called 'the_buns' has posted a reply. The_buns says...
i cant wait
Talkback this should be good, ihave little faith in Vista after seeing the Betas and other such lovlies so i am sure this will be as bad!
Apple's Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
Photo Apple's latest MacBook Pro notebook is powered by Intel's latest Core 2 Duo CPU.
Microsoft's Allchin: Vista won't need antivirus
News Update: Comments come at a time when Microsoft is battling with antivirus vendors over access to Vista, and is the subject of an EC anti-competition investigation
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Talkback it just goes to show how useless those damn europeans are!! hang on wait, i'm english, then again that doesn't count! we are as european as the americans are english! (yes i know the yanks are...
NTL's TV ambitions spark hilarity
Blog British newspapers have been having plenty of fun at NTL's expense (yes, again), after the cable operator dislosed it was considering a tie-up with ITV. Jeremy Warner of The Indie captured the...
VoIP regulation hit by three-month delay
News Ofcom is months late in publishing a statement on internet telephony regulation in the UK, as VoIP take-up increases
Laptop makers push pre-standard wireless
News Lenovo and HP will follow Dell and Acer in building high-speed Wi-Fi into their notebooks, despite concerns over compatibility
Why PC location is vital to performance
Feature It's easy to overlook the placement of a PC system box in a busy workplace, but careless location can lead to serious problems
Gates: Rivals tried to 'castrate' Vista
News The EC's proposed restrictions over Vista would have effectively emasculated the operating system, Gates tells journalists
The Clone ink is not supposed to be as good.
Talkback The justification for the high price charged by HP and others was supposed to be that the clone inks are not as good. HP are hereby admitting that they are and that their profit margin is very high.
How the Democrats' win affects tech
News A Capitol Hill under Democrat control means priorities are bound to change in terms of technology-related legislation
RE:Whither Dunstone
Blog Comment I know. I haven't had fodder since the beginning of September. I'm sad. (talktalkhell)
Emirates latest to offer in-flight mobile
News Deal has been signed by the airline enabling travellers to use their mobile phones during flights
Vodafone's IT cost-cutting plans on track
News Data centre consolidation is being completed as part of a scheme to slash £100m of expenses
Acrobat 8 Professional for Windows
Review Companies that need to compose long, secure, PDF documents and want to use the new digital forms will appreciate Acrobat 8. However, it's overkill if you only want to make short PDF files.
Whither Dunstone's blog?
Blog What's happened to Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone's blog? He set it up back in April, roundabout the time CPW kicked off the whole "free broadband" thing, saying he would "update this...
Microsoft to fix zero-day XML flaw
News Update will be included in six security bulletins to be issued as part of the software maker's monthly patch cycle
IBM readies its first quad-core servers
News Hot on the heels of Dell, IBM is launching servers based on Intel's quad-core Xeon chips
