Previous DayBBC bought botnet
Blog The British Broadcasting Corporation bought its own botnet. What a silly thing to do. Using 22,000 computers that had already been infected, the BBC bought software that enabled it to control...
Engineers discover key to quick-charging batteries
News US engineers have found a way to make lithium batteries that are smaller, lighter, longer lasting and capable of recharging in seconds, according to the journal Nature
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by web users, according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Juniper offers scalable network options
Blog Juniper Networks on Monday, extended its range of network firewalls with two more options for scaling networks from the mid-range to the largest networks. Aimed at the data centre but for use in...
Windows 7 to 'rescue' apps that failed to run in Vista
News Microsoft has said it wants to make some programs that failed to run in Vista work in Windows 7
Virtual Iron virtually sold perhaps
Blog The rumours are building around the virtualisation company Virtual Iron and if they are not quite at fever pitch, they are somewhere close. I normally avoid writing about rumours but this one is so...
Enum VoIP registry goes live in UK
News The service allows pure internet-based calls, something registry operator Nominet says can help businesses reduce or eliminate call costs to supplier and clients
Open source at the business end
Q&A Nick Mailer describes why his web-hosting company chose to base its services on open-source software, and the response from business to that decision
Microsoft gives discounts on software licences
News The company has cut prices by up to 25 percent for leasing some of its software, including SQL Server and SharePoint
Vodafone and O2 could share networks
Blog According to reports in The Guardian and Mobile, O2 and Vodafone are about to announce a network-sharing deal. Vodafone already has a similar-ish deal with Orange, although that arrangement is...
RE:A new spin on battery technology
Blog Comment This voltage that's '100 times too big', are we talking microvolts, millivolts, volts? How many hairs for a battery? Also, unless something moves between them (no current flow, you say), how would...
IT @ Heart Of Next Industrial Revolution
Blog In 10 years’ time we will be able to put an entire year’s worth of our waking experience - in digital quality - on a laptop. By 2039 that could extend to a record of our entire lives. The...
Microsoft granted extension in EC antitrust case
News The European Commission has extended the deadline to 21 April for the company to respond to allegations that it violated antitrust laws by bundling its browser and operating system
Prisoner database hit by delays, overspending
News The National Offender Management Information System has suffered from budget blowouts, delays and mismanagement, according to the government's spending watchdog
A new spin on battery technology
Blog Researchers at the Universties of Miami, Tokyo and Tohoku have discovered a new form of battery. Charged by the application of a very strong magnetic field, the Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ)...
T-Mobile's G1 Android to get new features
News Updates from the 'Cupcake' development branch will be pushed out by T-Mobile onto G1 handsets next month, the operator has said
Bletchley Park secures £600k funding
News The money from Milton Keynes council and English Heritage will help improve the infrastructure of the site of WWII code-breaking efforts
BBC may help fund UK fibre rollout
News Communications minister Lord Carter has suggested the BBC could help the rollout of super-fast broadband networks to areas of the country not served by BT and Virgin Media fibre rollouts
Mobile enterprise apps proliferate, but how did we get here?
Blog Readers may have already seen the news on ZDNet.co.uk announced last night that SAP and Sybase are working together to improve the access paths to SAP software on mobile devices. The above link...
Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed
News Nail clippings, hair, crumbs, gum — an IT hardware cleaning company describes some of the disagreeable and even dangerous detritus that accumulates inside the average office keyboard
Microsoft offers details on forthcoming app store
News The software maker says developers who want to sell via the Windows Marketplace for Mobile will pay $99 a year and get to keep 70 percent of the proceeds
3M Micro Professional Projector MPro110
Photo Lightweight, battery-powered 'pico' projectors sound great in principle, but how do they shape up in practice? Check out our first impressions of 3M's first effort in this emerging sector.
SAP to develop corporate apps for iPhone
News The business-management software giant is working with database provider Sybase to help corporate users access applications on smartphones such as the iPhone
Paid-for Android apps come to the UK
News T-Mobile has announced that from Thursday, developers will be able to set prices for their own apps through the Android Market store
Snooping
Talkback I'm going one better, I only use www at work now and when I retire next year I will never have to use the internet again, ever. I don't need it. When HMs gov. decides to record all telepone...
Protect myself
Talkback And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why, when the Government decides it's okay to spy on us, I shall be using a proxy set-up via ssh to a server in the US. SSH is encrypted, so let them crack those...
Saving 50 million Euro with Linux and Open Source
Blog There it is. In clear, un-ambiguous terms. Using Linux and Open Source software throughout your organisation, especially on desktops, can save money. Real, serious money. The kinds of money that...
