Previous DayRidiculously high frequencies for Olympic HD
Blog It's nice to see broadcasting revive a little of one of its less-appreciated traditions – pushing the development of radio technology. Over at the Olympics, Tech-On reports that Japanese TV...
RE:Colchester University Hospital sacks manager over lost lapto...
Blog Comment Good.. there are plenty of spare managers in our health service. I know this from the time I did some work with the mechanics for the london amulance service.....sometimes there would be as many...
RE:Dell launches new business laptops
Blog Comment I am fascinated to see the size of the 19 hour battery, but hats off to Dell who seems to have done some thinking and a little cool designing to come up with the latest batch.
VMware bug causes worldwide disruption
News Customers turning off virtual machines running VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 have been unable to turn them back on due to a licensing flaw
Resurrecting IBM's PCjr
Photo TechRepublic's Mark Kaelin runs Lotus 1-2-3 on an IBM PC from the 1980s, and revisits the quirks that meant the machine was doomed
Security researcher demands money from Sun, Nokia
News A researcher claims to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java and Nokia Series 40 handsets, and wants Sun or Nokia to pay him €20,000 for the details
Dell launches new business laptops
Blog We've all been waiting for the rumoured Dell "E" netbooks - and that may still come out of today's announcements - but right now we can reveal the company's new line of Latitude notebooks. The...
Dialogue Box 4.6: The reality behind virtualisation
Video Virtualisation promises something for virtually nothing. Dialogue Box finds that isn't necessarily so
Colchester University Hospital sacks manager over lost laptop
Blog An unnamed senior manager has been sacked by Colchester University Hospital after losing a laptop. The manager had his laptop stolen from a car in Scotland in June. The laptop contained the...
I wonder
Talkback I wonder if Oyster II (the revenge) will continue to function as an extension of the CCTV systems we have all come to know and love. I know a whole bunch of Londoners who don't have an Oyster card...
RE:Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog Comment After having a good browse around the mojave experiment website, I noticed one little fact on the website that I find wonderfully droll. "Security Microsoft studies have shown that Windows Vista...
IBM makes business dashboards mobile
News The company is adding new software and consulting services to its lineup, in an effort to charm mobile enterprises
Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr
Blog Microsoft has always been rather strident on the topic of copyright infringement, as you may have noticed. Which makes the tale of its Iconic Britain competition all the more astonishing. The...
Nasa hacker gets temporary reprieve
News Gary McKinnon has won a short stay of extradition until the European Court of Human Rights decides whether to hear his appeal
EC seeks more cash for online cultural library
News A single digital repository of Europe's works of art could be up and running by the year's end, if EU member states commit more funding
Flash, HTML, Ajax vie for victory in web-app war
Analysis Web applications are getting richer and more widespread, but it's unclear which of several competing technologies will power them
Press release of the day
Blog Oh, this really made my day. I got a press release from the PR for an internet marketing company, the subject line for which was: "Lyris: winning the war against spam". I found it in my junk...
DNS creator: It's time to add security
News Paul Mockapetris has called on ISPs to boost Domain Name System security following the exposure of a fundamental flaw
Gartner issues caveats over enterprise iPhone use
Analysis The analyst house says Apple's latest iPhone is suitable for business use, but various 'inconveniences' must be taken into account
RE:Vista vs XP
Blog Comment Hmmm. That one just escapes me, maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. The PCs are shipped with no XP license, but XP preloaded? Does that imply that they are in fact still shipped with the dual...
Northern Ireland funds broadband push
News The Northern Ireland Executive has unveiled a fund to promote the extension of broadband services, with a particular focus on the delivery of services to rural areas
Semantic web on verge of commercial viability
News BT's head of next-generation web research has claimed there will be significant increases in the real-world application of semantic technology over the next 12 to 18 months
Jobs: iPhone apps reaped $30m in 30 days
News The Apple chief sees big numbers ahead for the iPhone App Store if it continues selling an average of $1m worth of applications per day
Outsourcing giant Infosys plans £154m site
News The new campus in Hyderabad, India will employ 25,000 people and be developed over 10 years
Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News The analyst predicts technologies such as SaaS, mashups and online services will have a change-inducing impact on business within the next two years, despite current user disillusionment
Home Office admits loss of 3,000 workers' data
News The names, nationalities, passport numbers and dates of birth of 3,000 seasonal agricultural workers were on two CDs lost in transit to the UK Borders Authority in March
RE:Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog Comment Heard something from one of the guys at work recently about Vista. Our application software we use is made from Visual C 5, VB6 and Delphi 3 or 4. All of it remarkably old and only the Delphi...
