Previous DayTech coalition launches sweatshop probe
News The EICC, a tech-industry watchdog, will investigate a human-rights group's allegations of 'dehumanising' conditions in a Chinese keyboard factory that supplies members IBM, Microsoft, Dell, HP and...
Time for some personal responsibility
Talkback While such thoughts are certainly to be vehemently rejected by the civil service, I think it is time that Data Protection law made it an individuals responsibility whenever a data loss occurred. If...
Rackable's revenue hit by falling sales
News The server maker has reported a fourth-quarter and full-year loss, but says it will invest millions in products and buying back its own stock
How private lives are being redefined online
Video At the Digital Lives conference, web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall explains how technology has affected how and why people share information about themselves
What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2009
Analysis On 16 February, the majority of the mobile industry will gather in Barcelona — expect announcements about netbooks, Android, Windows Mobile, widgets and web standards
RE:Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork...
Blog Comment Many thanks for your contribution Kevin. You'll see from my other posts that I agree GFC was, before the Plaxo demo at least, the smartest OpenID implementation I have seen. It took 10 minutes to...
re: compulsory ID cards
Talkback ... & of course the compulsory fee that comes with having to obtain a card has got nothing to do with it... my partner is a foreign national, but has lived here (legally!) for many years, and...
Tech companies submit crypto standard to Oasis
News Seven technology companies have developed a specification that the group hopes will improve encryption-key management interoperability
Minority Report
Talkback : The Home Office on Thursday said that it : considered these groups of foreign nationals : a potential crime risk. This is just bigotry ! Housemaids, Colonials and Grannies are being demonised,...
Deterministic Management Practices
Talkback They hire former WalMart executives, then they decide to go into retail sales? Duh. A purely linear move. Guess the mobile market is one too tough to crack? How are they going to keep from...
Microsoft offers $250k bounty for Downadup arrest
News The software giant is offering a reward for arrest and conviction related to the internet worm that spreads via Windows hole, USB drives and network shares
Cracks in the Foundation
Blog I've been reading all of the reports of job layoffs in practically every industry and location in the world. The one that's got me intrigued though is the 5000 job layoff at Microsoft. I don't...
RE:Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork...
Blog Comment Ironically, ZDNet's convoluted registration system ate my comment, illustrating perfectly why delegated Social infrastructure is so necessary. The misconception in this piece is that Friend Connect...
Gordon Bell on life through a digital lens
Video Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell talked to ZDNet UK recently about his project to document his entire life. This video shows him demonstrating part of this in 2007
Researcher warns of Android phone vulnerability
News A researcher has warned users to avoid browsing the web on their Android handsets until a patch is installed
Apple plugs multiple holes with OS X update
News The company has released the first OS X security update of the year, closing holes that could disclose sensitive information and arbitrarily execute code
Seven (more) reasons to love a developer on Valentine’s Day
Blog A year ago I wrote a blog right here on ZDNet.co.uk entitled Seven Reasons to Love Developers on Valentines Day full of heartfelt love for the IT industry and software application development in...
RE:Netbook and Broadband Wireless
Blog Comment Hi Adam, thanks for reading and commenting, as always. Yes, I know that I was rather brief in what I said about Mandriva, and all the others for that matter, and my attempts to get the Broadband...
Microsoft to open its own retail stores
News The company says it will open its own line of retail stores and that it has hired a Wal-Mart veteran to lead the effort
Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
Blog Google announces enhancements to Google Friend Connect while also showing another way of remote login and bringing over contacts at an OpenID meeting hosted by Facebook... Confused? Me too. Oh...
RE:What's your favourite dead software ?
Blog Comment Clipper. Easy to use and it compiled down to true native code, so it run fast. Can't say that about any M$ products though!
RE:Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 3
Blog Comment Just a note: the openchrome driver included with MDV 2009 is in fact perfectly 'stable', it's just that that release of the driver doesn't support the particular (slightly quirky) Chrome...
