Previous DayExecs see technology as economic equaliser
Analysis Intel's chairman Craig Barrett and Cisco chief executive John Chambers see tech as the key to eliminating poverty throughout the world
EU help possible for Dell Ireland workers
Blog Dell’s workers unemployment in Ireland could get help from the European Union. On Thursday Dell announced that 1,900 people would lose their jobs at the company’s plant in Limerick. The...
Nasa hacker: I'll plead guilty in the UK
News Gary McKinnon's lawyers tell the Crown Prosecution Service that he would plead guilty if tried under UK law, a move that could help him avoid extradition to the US
Oracle to issue Critical Patch Update on Tuesday
Blog One of Oracle's massive patches is due out on Tuesday. Oracle releases a Critical Patch Update only every three to six months, so they are typically huge. The one to be made available...
The top business picks from CES 2009
Photo Forget TVs — this year's Consumer Electronics Show presented several products fit for corporate life. Here's our pick of the best business technology launches
Dixons Group websites out of service
Blog Whoops. All of the Dixons Group's retail websites - dixons.co.uk, pcworld.co.uk and currys.co.uk - have been out of order since last night. "The corporate one is still working, but that doesn't...
Intel to tackle AMD in 'ultrathin' market
Blog AMD, having annoyed tech taxonomists everywhere by launching its Athlon Neo chipset for the 'ultrathin' category of notebooks (cheaper than an ultraportable, more highly specced than a netbook),...
Intel unveils tablet Classmate PC design
News The chipmaker has signed up PC makers around the world to create local versions of the new, swivel-screened model of the netbook for schoolchildren
Solid-state drives reach one terabyte
News Storage supplier pureSilicon has announced its Nitro Series of SSDs, with a maximum capacity of 1TB in a 2.5-inch format
Health trust loses 6,000 prisoners' data on USB stick
News An encrypted data stick, with the password attached to the drive on a Post-it note, has been lost at HMP Preston
Security lessons not learned will haunt us in 2009
Comment Too many people in IT are choosing to ignore last year's troubling developments in malware, argues internet security expert Mary Landesman
RE:Skype Lite? Don't bite.
Blog Comment Hi, Peter... Yes, there are places where this would be a good deal - and if you don't like it, you don't have to use it. The thing that concerns me most, though, is the dilution of the...
Google emits rebuttal to carbon claims
Blog Reacting swiftly to a Harvard academic's claims that two Google searches produce as much greenhouse gas as boiling a kettle, the company has posted a blog on the subject. "We thought it would be...
RE:Skype Lite? Don't bite.
Blog Comment Hi Rupert - you're absolutely right; the calling functionality works best for people who have generous inclusive minutes allowances (or are on the 3 network). In those instances, being able to call...
McAfee: Malware scam using Google developer site
News McAfee has warned it is finding links to fake videos that download Trojan horses on the Google Code hosting site for developers
Carbon footprint of a Google search revealed
News A Harvard University physicist says a typical search on a desktop computer generates about seven grams of carbon dioxide
Microsoft suspends Windows 7 beta download limit
News Acknowledging that its release of Windows 7 public beta 'was not ideal', Microsoft has lifted the software's 2.5 million download limit for a couple of weeks
RE:A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog Comment I'm always pleased to hear that something I have posted has helped someone, but it is particularly nice when it helps someone as experienced and knowledgeable as you. Thanks for reading and...
Chrome steps closer to Mac, Linux and extensions
News A new version of the browser paves the way for extensions, while Google hopes to release versions for Mac and Linux by the first half of the year
I think its a new DFS
Talkback Roger I've been playing with WIn7 in a VM and from what I can see it looks mostly like a Linux link or a Distributed Files System (a Microsoft Win 2K product that got little attention) pointer. It...
Rise of the robots – can APM save us?
Blog After my e-retailing blog last week, I have been keeping my eyes, ears and mind open to the subject of automation. Infuriated by electronic kiosks as I often am, I feel the rise of the robots may...
