Previous DaySkip the new iPod shuffle it's just too small
Blog So the third gen iPod shuffle is here it's so sleek it only has one button on it, in fact you could almost miss the Apple logo all together on the clip but I think it has two major downsides. The...
Mobile Malware: The JavaMite Evolution in Digital Security
Blog Mobile Malware: The JavaMite Evolution in Digital Security Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com The landscape of digital security is evolutionary in nature. From one malware variant to...
Microsoft's latest hardware: A laptop cooler
Photo The software maker takes its hardware sideline beyond mice and keyboards with the launch of its first laptop-cooling base station
EMC offers tool for managing virtual systems
News The company has announced an analysis tool that it says can help IT managers understand the relationships between virtual servers, physical servers and the network
Gartner sees slowdown in smartphone sales growth
News Amid a general fourth-quarter slowdown in sales growth, Samsung and RIM made significant gains with their latest handsets
Microsoft details changes to SQL Data Services
News The company's development team reveals more details of the fully hosted service option for SQL Data Services, first announced last month
EU cap on text and data roaming clears hurdle
News A key European Parliament committee has backed proposals to cut the amount operators can charge for text messaging and mobile data use while roaming in Europe
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web has criticised internet service providers and third parties that intercept web traffic
RE:Microsoft says it's a SaaS mistake
Blog Comment Which also means that if the customer goes out of business then MS still gets its money from the reseller as the reseller must take the hit. Risky business "owning the customer/Microsoft agreement"...
Microsoft says it's a SaaS mistake
Blog A Microsoft speaker at a conference on Monday came out with some interesting news that I reported on ZDNet UK. The news was that after it appeared that Microsoft wanted to cut resellers out of the...
Growing number of PCs hit by ID fraud malware
News A study has found that in 2008, a third of computers that were infected by malware designed to steal information for use in identity fraud had up-to-date antivirus software
Symantec triggers alerts with unsigned Norton patch
News A Norton patch released on Monday night triggered firewall alerts and sent users flocking to forums where Symantec found itself fending off a spam attack
Mouse Gestures in Opera Browser
Blog I have mentioned before how much I like the Opera browser. I like it even more now. Lots more. I have been doing something that requires a lot of repetitive moving up and down through a group...
3D display technology moves on
Video Markus Klippstein, head of the 3D display company Visumotion, tells ZDNet UK how the technology has developed in recent years, and what it is for
Hitachi will plead guilty to LCD price-fixing
News The Japan-based electronics firm has agreed to pay a £22m fine as part of its deal with the US Justice Department
Google to base ads on surfing behaviour
News The web giant is to start tracking users as they surf across sites that use Google AdSense, so it can serve more targeted advertising
RE:"Disabling" code is missing the point
Blog Comment Again this won't be a satisfactory answer for the casual user, but with the use of certain applications you can force any windows component off your hard drive. One being the 'unlocker application'...
Banks shun offshorers in favour of own operations
News Financial institutions are turning away from outsourcing companies, preferring to set up their own offshore operations, according to two of Europe's biggest banks
Photos: Windows 7 Build 7048
Photo The recently leaked Build 7048 of Windows 7 isn't (quite) the Release Candidate. Here's a gallery of changes from the official Beta (Build 7000).
Red Hat: Cloud won't drive open-source adoption
News The cloud's heightened focus on interoperability does not directly translate to ramped up adoption of open-source software, says Red Hat executive Frank Feldmann
RE:"Disabling" code is missing the point
Blog Comment Nice blog mate, Fascinating read - especially your point about stored "staged" disabled components. I don't doubt that you are correct. Isn't this kind of stratagem somewhat endemic of the type...
Microsoft plugs critical holes in Windows
News The software maker has issued patches for critical and important holes in Windows, but failed to plug an Excel hole that is being exploited
Adobe patches zero-day Reader flaw
News The company has released a security fix for a critical hole in Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that has reportedly been exploited
Android developer phone gets an update
News The update for the unlocked version of the Android phone contains several bug fixes and adds new features such as the ability to save MMS attachments and voice search
Geany column select
Blog Wooters!! I've just found out that my favourite Geany text editor does support Column mode editing. Thanks to chuck for this post. Basically, column mode editing allows you to select portions of...
