Previous DayRE:Transparent solar cell? Can't see it myself
Blog Comment Ha good one! I like the idea of putting glass to work. Do you think we'll ever be able to develop sub nano valve tech that could gently gush or even stroke all the power we need from atoms and <...
And still incompetent management....
Talkback Such cavalier attitude to data storage handling and protection should by now be a thing of the past. One would have expected that competent management would have introduced very effective systems...
Acer Perspire One
Blog I had ordered an Asus Eee from Amazon way way back in July, to jump on the overcrowded netbook bandwagon, and to be able to flourish redundant technology on the tube with a knowing smile that...
Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free
News Setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on, Red Hat has predicted virtualisation will be included in all operating systems for free
RE:My Chrome honeymoon is over...
Blog Comment Good point. It feels like I should keep Chrome on my radar, but I'm paying more attention to the privacy concerns, especially now the German data protection authority has issued a warning about it....
Its a year now
Talkback Its been exactly a year now. Pricing has dropped by 60% & is 25% or more Less expensive than any competitor. More & more companies, organizations of every size an sector is getting bad traffic...
Trend Micro gives false positive details
Blog Trend Micro has given out details of two anti-virus signatures sent out last week that caused Windows DLL files to be quarantined. The false positive identification of Windows systems files by...
BlackBerry clams up
News RIM has released the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, the Canadian smartphone maker's first clamshell handset
Home Office axes data-loss firm's contract
News PA Consulting has lost its contract to administer the prisoner-tracking JTrack system, following the loss of 84,000 inmates' data in August
Lack of substance abuse?
Talkback I understand Debes' argument and to some degree I accept his conclusion, but I think he misunderstands what SaaS is. SaaS is NOT a revenue model, SaaS is a delivery method. I run a SaaS based...
Apple QuickTime update includes nine patches
News The update includes patches covering both both Windows and Mac OS X versions of the popular media player
The heart of the LHC is more than science
Leader Cern's Large Hadron Collider is science at its biggest. It is also profoundly human
Next Colossus challenge 'will make nerds sweat'
Video National Museum of Computing director Tony Sale discusses work that remains to be done on the rebuilt WWII-era Colossus computer, and the next cipher challenge
RE:Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Generally speaking, the lack of good programming articles is mainly due to that they focus on a small percentage of the readers. A lot of programmers would love to get articles published but most...
Scottish gov't forms data privacy group
News To calm public fears about local authorities' handling of sensitive data, the Scottish government has formed a privacy and security scrutiny group
The LHCgasm continues...
Blog I was lucky enough to visit CERN just days before the Large Hadron Collider went live (w00t!), and check this out: the geekiest keyring in history... What that perspex souvenir contains, my...
On Alphas and Betas
Blog There seems to be a rash of Alpha and Beta test software available at the moment. I currently have, or have very recently had, the following on my laptops: - Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 - Firefox...
Is the word "social" stigmatising Web 2.0?
Blog I've thought about it and the social web isn't social at all. I have just had an interesting conversation with Matthew Brazil, MD of 6Consulting and an expert in social media monitoring, about...
Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 due this month
Blog Aha - so much for those claims of the Xperia X1 being delayed. We just got word from SE that the device will be on sale in the UK on 30 September. So, for those of you keen on trying out the...
Cern's Large Hadron Collider goes live
Roundup On Wednesday, the grandest physics experiment of our times was switched on, kicking off a mission to answer some of our deepest questions about life, the universe and everything
RE:What's Lenovo's Linux stance?
Blog Comment Aha - thanks Lenovo! The manufacturer just got back to me with a bunch of links to Linux-toting machines on their UK website. They certainly weren't immediately apparent when I visited yesterday,...
CERN Fiasco - the end of the world is nigh
Talkback It appears that the Media has frightened the people to death with the notion that today the world may end. I had numerous calls over the last 7-days from family and contacts asking what will happen...
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
Photo After the first circulation of a particle beam round the Large Hadron Collider, UK scientists told ZDNet.co.uk of their delight at the successful operation of the largest machine in history
RE:Perl in the shell
Blog Comment Amen Adrian. I have been stewing over this for a while, and not only is there not enough about "real programming", what little there is seems to always imply that it should be trivial - "mashups"...
Perl in the shell
Blog Why doesn’t anyone talk about computer programming languages these days? I’ve just spent the last couple of days working with a great guy called Jason Froebe on a Perl tutorial that really digs...
Sony: We're innovative again
News Chairman and chief executive Howard Stringer says Sony has made a return to innovative ways with its software and OLED products
LHC Win: Beaming smiles all round
Blog Just back from a Science & Technology Facilities Council event in Westminster to observe, via video-link, the first beam going round the Large Hadron Collider. As you by now surely know, this...
BT, South Tyneside sign shared-services deal
News The 10-year, £184m contract covers the delivery of a number of key council services, including the development of a shared-services centre
Toshiba 1.8-inch hard drive reaches 240GB mark
News The company has announced a single-platter 120GB and a dual-platter 240GB internal hard drive
Nokia provides Microsoft email on smartphones
News The mobile-phone maker is embedding Microsoft ActiveSync in its smartphones as it battles RIM for corporate smartphone customers
Microsoft: IE8 interface was priority over speed
News The user interface was the top priority when building Internet Explorer 8, not performance benchmarking, according to a Microsoft executive
Google-backed project bringing net access to billions
News The search giant is working with Liberty Global and HSBC to build a satellite system to help bring internet access to those lacking first-world network infrastructure
Microsoft patches eight critical flaws
News Vulnerabilities addressed by the Patch Tuesday security bulletins include an attacker taking complete control of a system
Tech execs: Green datacentres are crucial
News Business leaders from Cisco, IBM and Cadence are exploring ways to make datacentres more energy efficient
Skype's 5 Years of Lows
Blog It's refreshing to see that the press is not just parroting the marketing hype that Skype has sent out for their 5th birthday. FierceVoIP has a good article, as does iTWire. Besides the frozen...
definition of breach
Talkback Most all data in commercial and government systems are “exposed” or “compromised” to one degree or another virtually all the time. Should each citizen therefore be mailed 100 breach notices every...
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News The world's largest machine switched on for the biggest scientific experiment of the 21st century shortly after 8.15am on Wednesday
