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Member Review I have just skimmed your review and I am stuck on a phrase of the review essentially that, and I'm paraphrasing "It's a shame that these devices have been launched before widespread coverage of...
Five-Year-Old Boy Detained by the TSA
Blog I always get an icy chill in my stomach when I hear stories of bureacratic process taking over from common sense and humanity. An extreme example of this is Nazi concentration camp guards merrily...
FBI cut off for unpaid wiretap bills
Blog Are you a member of an international law enforcement organisation? For those clandestine surveillance operations, remember to pay your telephone and email providers promptly, or you may have your...
AMD delays two quad-core chips
News The chipmaker has confirmed the launch of two of its Phenom processors will be delayed until the second quarter of 2008
New York launches Intel antitrust probe
News The attorney general of New York has launched an antitrust investigation into whether Intel sought to influence customers against rival chip manufacturer AMD
Speculation rife as Macworld looms
News Prior to the start of next week's Macworld event, rumours have been circulating around sub-notebooks and virtualisation
Open-source security moves to next step
News Eleven projects have been certified as secure by a US government-backed project — but will the message backfire?
Schools must buy a Microsoft licence for every machine.
Talkback And you thought it was YOUR computer. You pay for the software, but M$ still owns it and tells how you can use it. This is freedom of choice?
high-quality Windows experience?
Talkback This is hilarious! High quality and Windows is a contradiction in terms. What they will end up with is a slow running computer, subject to trojans, virus's, adware, and malware. Can you imagine...
Microsoft quashes rumours of dual-boot XO laptop
News The open-source community has censured Microsoft for rejecting plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on OLPC's XO laptops
Raikes reflects on 26 years at Microsoft
Analysis The outgoing head of Microsoft's business unit looks back on an illustrious career at Redmond
Dublin abandons free city-wide WiFi plan
Blog It appears that Dublin city council have caved in to pressures from the telecommunications industry, and backed down from their plan to have free WiFi throughout the city. The quoted reason is...
Cisco buys into remote-access company
News The company has invested an undisclosed amount in SoonR, a provider of remote access to desktop files from mobile phones and other devices
Raikes to leave Microsoft
News After 26 years at the software giant, the head of Microsoft's Business Division, Jeff Raikes, has announced he will step down
Microsoft demos Surface apps
Video The software maker demos various applications showing how Surface interacts with objects and other programs
RE:Happy New Ear from Sony Ericsson
Blog Comment Yes! What I'd hoped would have happened by now - it has to some extent in prosthetics - is that tech would not only relieve some disabilities but be positively stylish and enhancing. Adding...
RE:Happy New Ear from Sony Ericsson
Blog Comment What some of my partial hearing friends want are stylish hearing-aids that can function as bluetooth headsets for their 'phones and media players!
Happy Birthday, Donald Knuth!
Blog It's a day late, to be sure, but I only just realised. Donald Knuth was 70 (or 1000110) yesterday and, providing we stick to type integer, still is today. Knuth is something of a patron saint of...
iPlayer traffic soars over festive period
News Visits to the BBC's iPlayer website increased 14-fold over the period, with traffic rocketing after the full marketing launch on Christmas Day
Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine
Review Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven more difficult to create than its original proponents expected. This admirably accessible book explains why, and considers what it will take to get truly...
RE:Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Comment IFE systems are famously unreliable on many carriers, and remain one of cabin crews' least favourite things. Let me quote from a recent post on Pprune, the pilots' forum and one of my favourite...
Brown accused of deception over ID cards
News The prime minister has said Parliament will decide the fate of ID cards, while his perceived dithering in his commitment to the scheme has drawn criticism
Credit crunch looms over IT jobs market
News Although demand for tech workers to fill vacancies is still strong, the ecomonic climate has begun to affect recruitment in the banking sector
A shocking lack of journalistic standards at CES
Blog I was deeply upset to read about recent misbehaviour by reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Vegasfest of all things digital, noisy, tiny and shiny. CES has already flooded my RSS...
