Previous DaySteorn - energetically cloning Agatha
Blog You may remember that a while back, I wrote up the intriguing claims of Steorn, a Dublin company which says it has invented a device that produced more energy than it consumed. I was, and am,...
More 3G auctions planned
News Ofcom reveals plans to sell radio spectrum for new 3G and WiMax services
Unfair and Unreasonable
Talkback To me, this situation is an abomination, not justice. The act was rushed through by the UK government the the agreement has not been ratified by the US, and has, quite rightly, rejected by the EU....
Piracy "good for Russian economy", says Kaspersky representative
Blog Russia would technologically "still be in the stone age" without the effects of software piracy, according to Timur Tsoriev, Kaspersky corporate communications and pr manager. He told me that...
Christmas e-shoppers undaunted by security fears
News People will buy online even if they have suffered a security breach, according to antivirus vendor Kaspersky
South Africa pushes for ICT outsourcing
News Big tax breaks and training grants are being offered to companies considering transferring their business process outsourcing to South Africa
Alloy could make chips 500x faster
Blog Exciting news from IBM and partners about a prototype technology that could make memory chips 500 times faster in the future. It uses a technique where a material named GS can be swapped from an...
Guilty plea from Akamai hacker
News John Bombard faces up to two years in prison for launching 'botnet' attacks against the caching company
Windows Vista Editions - there's only one real choice
Feature Out of eight versions, only one version of Vista really delivers value for money
Kaspersky predicts Vista security holes
News Windows Vista kernel will be the main target for hackers, and the user privileges system will be undermined by the users themselves, forecasts Kaspersky
iSoft limps on after posting loss
News Chairman admits that the company at the heart of the NHS IT upgrade must find more financial support
Ten things to consider before buying an 802.11n wireless device
Feature You may be tempted by Pre-N and Draft-N wireless products, but before you buy make sure you have all the facts
IT can play a key role in getting new employees up to speed
Feature Educating new employees goes beyond simply teaching them job-specific tasks
Use the sitemap standard to help search engines
Sitemaps provide a way for websites to specify what pages within the site should be indexed and what new content has been added
Nasa hacker appeal set for New Year
News High Court has set a date for the appeal of Gary McKinnon, the Briton threatened with extradition to the US to face charges of hacking into US military systems
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Talkback And how many XP jobs will be 'lost'?
Be on the lookout for these security threats in 2007
Feature As the end of 2006 rapidly approaches, it's time to start thinking about what new security threats a new year will bring
Are these new jobs?
Talkback Or is "creating jobs" just spin for all the work that IT staff are going to have to do to deploy Vista? Do these new Vista jobs offset all the jobs destroyed as W2K and XP become obsolete? Sounds...
Cisco administration 101: Configure GRE tunnels
Help/HowTo Using generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnels on Cisco routers can come in handy with Cisco router administration, and configuring GRE tunnels is relatively easy
Weigh the pros and cons of VoIP over wireless
Help/HowTo While VoIP over wireless offers benefits, the technology isn't without drawbacks
Copy an Excel formula without changing its cell references
Help/HowTo Here's how to copy a formula from one place to another — and keep it intact
T-Mobile MDA Compact III
Review T-Mobile's latest connected handheld is the first from a UK network operator with a built-in GPS receiver. The lack of Wi-Fi is a major drawback, however; we'd also like to see the wide-area...
SQL Server Express vs. Access for small-business applications
Help/HowTo How SQL Server Express edition and Microsoft Access stack up in terms of cost, implementation, and reliability
iPhone mania - nuff already
Blog I can't get excited by the Apple iPhone palaver. No matter what the hardware is or isn't, whether it has two batteries or one battery or Steorn's Magic Magnet Ju-Ju Rotato-Potato sucking juice from...
Eastern Europe new favourite for outsourcing
News Region is fast becoming an outsourcing hotspot, with activity set to triple there between 2005 and 2008
Public sector wins huge IT discounts
News Government deal will let public sector bodies buy hardware with discounts up to 49 percent
Lampman retires from HP Labs
News Dick Lampman has been in charge of HP's advanced research group since 1999
Cassatt plugs in Xen
News Collage software now can govern two new elements of the data centre: virtual machines running on the Xen, and XenSource hypervisors
Bush poised to sign clean-tech bill
News US Senate has passed a bill urging Americans to buy more energy-efficient computer servers
Study suggests Vista will boost US jobs
News Microsoft-backed study estimates that Vista could create thousands of IT-related jobs in the US
Quantum steps up disk-based backup
News Company has paraded the results of recent acquisitions in its first disk-based backup, recovery and archiving solution
