Previous DaySure: no silver bullets
Talkback First you have to close the stable door. Point solutions do this. Citadels have always had strength in depth from the moat to the keep, unlike HMRC (or firewalls) which neglected basic data...
Would Yahoo take a cash only deal?
Talkback It's amazing how these things work, before this bid Yahoo had a market cap of $9 billion, now they feel under-valued at $41Billion. In the time since Microsoft placed this bid on Feb.1 they've...
RE:Mobile operators respond to EC ticking off
Blog Comment Oh what absolute cow dung. There were six words missing from that statement from the GSMA. Individual mobile operators are best placed to decide what their tariffs for mobile data services should...
Citrix rebrands its XenSource spoils
News The company has discussed its product roadmap following the acquisition of virtualisation vendor XenSource
UK may get new mobile WiMax operator
News Motorola claims it is working with a company that intends to offer UK enterprise users a mobile WiMax service, but details remain scarce
Doesn't sound like the EU is demanding MS-OOXML.
Talkback According to the Wall Street Journal, European regulators are investigating whether Microsoft violated antitrust laws during the OOXML standardization struggle. The firm is accused of vote-rigging...
Mobile World Congress: Day one highlights
Roundup The show formerly known as 3GSM is always a busy one, with many mobile and telecoms companies competing with each other to make the biggest splash
Want to buy Symantec's nuclear bunker?
Blog For some odd reason a photo story we did a couple of years ago on Symantec's UK research centre was our most popular story this weekend. The explanation, it turns out, is that said research centre...
Breaking news: Yahoo rejects Microsoft bid
Blog Breaking news aplenty today. As if the Mobile World Congress wasn't enough, Yahoo has finally confirmed the rumours over the weekend that it was planning to reject Microsoft's bid. Here's the...
EC: Cut data-roaming costs or face regulation
News At the Mobile World Congress, European commissioner Viviane Reding said regulation will be introduced if operators don't cut their data-roaming charges by July
Mobile operators respond to EC ticking off
Blog This just in from the GSMA - the organisation that represents mobile operators. The organisation's Mobile World Congress conference is in full swing in Barcelona and amid all the talk of new...
Liveblogging from Microsoft's press gig
Blog I'm currently sitting in Microsoft's big Mobile World Congress press conference. Last year's equivalent event proved very useful for liveblogging, what with a bunch of announcements like Windows...
Microsoft Vista: A satirical cartoon about infuriating bureaucracy
Blog So says the Guardian columist and professional misanthrope Charlie Brooker at the end of column about Valentines day of all things: This week Charlie bought a new computer and spent what seemed...
Biometrics give increased area access at Heathrow
News Domestic travellers will be able to access the international departure lounge at Heathrow provided they undergo biometric checks
Flaw reported in updated Firefox
News A proof-of-concept vulnerability has been reported in the latest version of Mozilla's web browser
Sony Ericsson goes Windows Mobile
News The manufacturer launches its Windows Mobile-based Xperia line with the X1 handset, while Microsoft hints at a future tie-in with Nokia
Microsoft wants Nokia "to go all the way"
Blog Our very own Rupert Goodwins and David Meyer are out in Barcelona for the next few days trying to keep up with a flood of announcements at the mobile industry's annual shin-dig Mobile World...
More heavyweights join mobile Linux group
News Orange and Access join the LiMo Foundation to collaborate on its upcoming mobile Linux platform, which promises more applications for users
MWC: Nokia kicks things off
Blog Nokia's unveiled a widely-trailed clutch of phones - no, no Nok-iPhone - including the 6210 Navigator, which has pedestrian-focussed GPS augmented with a compass (I guess flux-gate, but don't know...
Flock aims to snare migrating Netscape users
News Web browser Flock hopes to use its social-networking tech to grab some of the users seeking an alternative to the doomed Netscape
Trolltech enhances mobile Linux platform
News The company, targeted for acquisition by Nokia, says the Qtopia platform can now support touchscreen devices and synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook
Virtual courts to cut police red tape
News Handheld police computers, virtual courts and joined-up computer systems will all be brought in under a review of policing
RE:IT company implodes - trial by blog
Blog Comment It's all very well having strict policy on what you can and cannot put on a post, comment or blog but if we start to go down the road of screening such material when we don't like the content then...
Microsoft: Governments demanded OOXML
News The software giant claims its pursuit of ISO certification for Office Open XML is motivated by public-sector customer demand
Morning has broken on Mobile World Congress...
Blog ... and we´re in the press room. The wi-fi in the press room is as good as always, so I´m on the wired computers. Which have Spanish keyboards, with backslash and @ signs well hidden. The first...
BBC: iPlayer download version coming to Macs
News Director general Mark Thompson has said the download version of the iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year
Debbie, the Data Recorder
Blog Looks like I'm going to write some C for the data recorder functions that I'm putting on Debbie. The idea is to "ping" the radio transceivers I'll be designing into the data gadgets I wrote...
Midnight on La Rambla
Blog We made it. Team ZDNet has successfully decanted itself onto the Gatwick Express, into the EasyJet Airbus of Dreams, shuffled dolefully along the First Giant Queue Of Many to the taxi and into our...
