Previous DayRupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 11/02/2005 Today, it's a trip to Working Lunch on BBC2, where I've been asked to reply to viewer's technical questions. These were sent over a couple of days before and powerfully...
Commons passes ID Card Bill
News The bill that would see the large-scale introduction of ID cards in the UK has passed its latest reading in the House of Commons, but looks set for a fight in the Lords
Microsoft puts CRM plans on hold
News Attempts by the software behemoth to make further inroads into the customer relationship management software market have been put on hold while the company listens to customer concerns
EC pushes on with patent directive
News The European Commission looks determined to ignore last week's calls for a rewrite of the software patent directive
Business software usage guidlines issued
News FAST corporate services is on a mission to ensure that the UK is "completely legal" when it comes to proprietary software licensing
Man charged in DEC hacking affair
News A man who is alleged to have attempted to hack into the Web site of the DEC, the charity coordinating relief efforts for the Asian tsunami, has been charged under the Computer Misuse Act
Silicon Valley: mixed signals for the future
Q&A If Silicon Valley is a tech bellwether, it's anyone's call where the industry is going, according to one economist... but he's certainly not optimistic
Clarke joins latest cyberterror debate
News Proposals for a World Security Organisation to tackle cyberterrorism continue to alarm experts, including former White House cybersecurity chief Richard Clarke
Oracle's core problem
Leader Oracle is stubbornly insistent that multicore equals multilicence. Reality stubbornly insists otherwise. Which will win?
HP and Intel round on Oracle over dual-core licences
News A core is equal to a CPU, and all cores are required to be licensed, says Oracle. Twice. HP and Intel don't quite see it that way
UK ISPs threaten action over spamming tools
News MCI could be shunned by its peers if allegations that it is hosting the Send Safe spamming tools are proven
A potted history of Fiorina's reign
Video Carly Fiorina's reign at HP lasted for six years, and was marked with many memorable moments: we take a look at some of the highlights
UK leads record quarter for Dell
News The UK is leading the world in terms of growth for Dell, which looks set to pounce on perceived confusion in the PC marketplace to push towards an $80bn target
Royalty-free options reach OASIS
Feature Builder: The Web services standards group has won praise for introducing a royalty-free option, but it has come under fire from others for not going far enough
Age verification scanner launched
News An Israeli company has developed a device that it claims can check the age of a computer user through an ultrasound scan of a bone in the hand
Mailman flaw gives away passwords
News A flaw in the popular open source mailing list management application Mailman has led to the theft of the passwords of the users of a well-known security discussion group
Firefox gets multimedia plugin
News A tool launched in Australia will let Firefox users search audio and video files
HP to unsheathe Opteron blades
News HP plans to publicly show its first blade servers using AMD's Opteron processor on Monday, as well as a more conventional server and a workstation that use the new chip
IBM readies retail supercomputer
News An off-the-shelf supercomputer will go on sale next week, and IBM has an even faster version planned for April
