Previous DaySense and connectivity
Leader The Caio Review sets out a logical, far-sighted plan for the future of British broadband, with no room for excuses
NXP to shed up to 4,500 jobs
News The company blames the global economic slowdown for the redundancies, which will mostly be in its manufacturing operations
Bletchley Park calls for aid
Video Security experts and Bletchley Park directors discuss fundraising efforts to stop the deterioration of buildings at the historic code-breaking centre
Report maps out Britain's broadband future
News An independent report says now is not the time for public investment in next-generation access in the UK, but there's plenty to be done by government and regulators
Touch Diamond
Talkback I think you will find that the interface response improvements are down to a revised ROM also available on the Touch Diamond as the hardware is otherwise identical. When I got my Diamond it was a...
Using mHealth to Promote Development in Africa
Blog My name is Awa Dieng, and I work for DataDyne.org, a public health and technology organization that has created software called EpiSurveyor for health data collection. My job involves traveling...
"Services not Servers" can I trademark that?
Blog It’s seems like a long time since I had a chance to post another blog. We’ve entered silly-season here and there’s sometimes not enough hours in the day. So, what have I missed? In the 6 weeks...
Sans Institute warns of cookie-stealing threat
News The security body says information has been released about the CookieMonster exploit that may facilitate the stealing of cookies from encrypted browser sessions
IBM, NEC team up on 32nm chip tech
News NEC has signed a multi-year agreement to enrol in the joint-development alliance set up by IBM to work on next-gen 32 nanometre tech
What a load of rubbish
Talkback There is no skills shortage, but the employers just look in the wrong place and the agencies are mostly next to useless so there is an ongoing blind leading the blind situation. The arguments put...
No IT skills shortage, just inadequate recruitment
Talkback As has been commented countless times before by myself and many others, there is plenty of native IT talent in this country, but the current ultra-low-cost no-humans-involved trend in IT...
Lenovo - nope, no Linux here
Blog When news trickled out that Lenovo was dropping Linux from part of its line, they tried to convince us they support it. Instead a different picture emerged. The story, as now reported in...
Windows Server, Hyper-V
Talkback We deployed live systems some months ago, after in incentive to do so. We have had no problems at all. What was not mentioned in the article was an add in called System Center Virtual Machine...
Microsoft Hyper-V welcomes Suse Linux as guest OS
News Novell's Suse Linux will be supported as a guest OS under the hypervisor, but observers aren't holding out for Microsoft support of other Linux versions
You missed a critical factor!
Talkback Windows Backup in Windows Server 2008 does not support backing up to tape. Instead, it supports backing up to internal/external HDDs, DVDs (yeah, that's really useful) and shared folders. This...
RE:Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
Blog Comment Andrew, Interestingly enough, I've been speaking to contacts at the Environment Agency in the UK and there's talk of a change in tactics on the enforcement front. The view of the Agency is that...
Govt fibre report to nix subsidies?
Blog I'm off in a few minutes to the launch of a BERR-sponsored report into whether the government should put any funding into a fibre rollout. The report will also indicate whether regulatory change...
Plastics recycling.... the bane of ewaste
Blog Plastics are the scurge of the I.T recycling industry. Unlike all other components of weee (cases, circuit boards, cables and even backup batteries) which can have recoverable materials with...
Gartner: Authentication systems are 'fatally flawed'
Q&A Security analyst Jay Heiser gives his take on the rash of UK public-sector data losses and explains why authentication systems aren't up to scratch
Trend Micro rolls out Internet Security 2009 suites
News Improvements include access to an 'in the cloud' malware-signature database and education tools to show users where attacks originate
Experts warn migration rules may fuel IT offshoring
News Despite a UK skills shortfall, IT staff have not been included on a draft list of 'shortages occupations' drawn up by the Home Office's Migration Advisory Committee
Rogue router stumps San Francisco officials
News San Francisco officials can't locate or get access to an apparent router allegedly left on the city network by an IT worker in jail for refusing to release passwords
West tightens IT belt while India, China boom
News While IT budgets are being cut in the US and Europe, spending for 2008 in China, Russia and India is surging forward at 18 percent growth
Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing. A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the Microsoft code Google has included in Chrome. It's all street-legal: the...
Does Microsoft & RIM search deal herald better usability?
Blog It was about six pm last night when I was sat in the reception of Microsoft’s London HQ twiddling on a BlackBerry that I got news of a new search deal between RIM and Microsoft themselves. Spooked...
RE:The human factor will always get you
Blog Comment And in reverse - we've just instituted a much more aggressive password retirement policy (ostensibly for compliance: I have my doubts). I've had my password expire on me twice now and been locked...
Yahoo serves up a taste of its Open Strategy
News The internet company demonstrated what can be done when apps are added to its increasingly open web properties
Sun launches open-source virtualisation platform
News xVM Server is free to download, built to work on Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems, and is interoperable with VMware
