Previous DaySlower broadband than promised...not really??
Talkback My ISP is DEMON INTERNET. I try to run two business from home with possibly the most pathetically slow broadband speed in the UK, which tonight averages around 97KBPS - not bad by the usual...
After all this time
Talkback I can't understand how anyone who calls themselves a programmer should ever fail on input validation or buffer over-runs. These two are so absolutely basic. I learned about them in the early 80s as...
Top 25 'most dangerous' coding errors revealed
News Security organisations, companies and academics have banded together to produce a list of what they consider to be the most critical coding errors
Novell single sign-on adds SharePoint support
News A new version of Novell Access Manager allows users registered on non-Windows identity directories to more easily access software that requires Active Directory, such as Microsoft Office SharePoint
IBM develops microscope for nanoscale imaging
News New microscope can show images with 100 million times greater resolution than those generated by an MRI scanner today, company said
Nokia E71 firmware update fixes camera
Blog A major new firmware update for Nokia's rather snazzy E71 business smartphone has been released. I installed it this afternoon, of course taking care to back everything up first so I could do a...
Financial firms unsure where personal data is held
News More than half of financial-services organisations have no accurate inventory of where their employees' and customers' personal data is stored, a survey has found
Palm Pre and WebOS: photos
Photo More images of Palm's new smartphone and mobile operating system, which stole the show at CES.
Developers expect SaaS boom
News More than half of developers worldwide expect to work on internet-hosted apps during 2009, according to a new survey
Visitors to US must register online
News The US Department of Homeland Security is mandating online registration for travellers from most Western European countries who wish to enter the US
The case against switching to a Mac
Comment The idea of moving from a Windows PC to an Apple Macintosh may sound appealing. But Rafe Needleman's recent experiences show the switch can be far from straightforward
HTC leak reveals Vodafone Android handset
Blog It appears that HTC, manufacturers of Windows Mobile and Android handsets alike, has suffered the mother of all leaks - the whole 2009 roadmap, by the looks of things. Aside from being generally...
AVG Technologies buys Sana Security
News Sana's behaviour-based 'zero-day-type' protection will help AVG deal with malicious code more quickly and efficiently, the comany has claimed
Configuring GRUB for Graphic Booting
Blog As I have mentioned previously, there are two popular versions of GRUB in use today, the "standard" or original version, which does only text display while booting (with background colors), and the...
ICO: Companies hiding behind privacy policies
News Firms need to make privacy notices accessible and not pepper them with legal jargon, according to the ICO
Seagate announces 800 job cuts, new CEO
News The storage supplier has said it is shedding one-tenth of its US workforce, and losing its two most senior executives
Does it even need to be said
Talkback This is undoubtedly a bunch of health professionals under ridiculously tough working conditions, working every day with potentially dangerous patients with in many cases little or nothing to lose....
Gov't departments deny memory-stick risks
News The departments of health and transport have denied a report that claims staff are allowed to use USB devices to transfer unencrypted information
Toshiba Portégé M750-10K
Review The Portégé M750 is a solidly built convertible Tablet PC. We like the dual-mode (stylus/finger) touch-screen and a number of other design elements. However, it's cumbersome to use in tablet mode,...
Palm Pre: a first look
Preview Palm's new Pre smartphone and WebOS operating system have caused a stir at CES. Here are some first impressions of a platform that could revive the company's fortunes.
Tech giants team up on digital-literacy push
News Cisco, Intel and Microsoft are working together to help create global education standards
There be dragons here.....
Blog It would seem that there are 25 Most dangerous programming errors in the world today. Only 25? Wow. It would seem that a group of IPCC like people from all manner of companies across the US...
Palm Pre - why are Palm ignoring their existing customers?
Talkback LOOKS impressive, but to be at all attractive it MUST do two things that, as far as anyone can tell it does not do and Palm don't seem committed to doing... - synch with desktop - support (or at...
Satyam customers warned to expect disruption
News Gartner recommends companies closely monitor their contracts with the the outsourcer for disruption and prepare contingency measures
$5bn cut from global financial-services IT spend
News IT spend across the global financial services industry will experience an overall decline of 1.3 percent in 2009, according to FS IT consultancy company Celent
Microsoft invests in business ads, multitouch
News Despite some belt-tightening, the software giant is still spending in areas including an ad campaign aimed at businesses and a stake in a multitouch start-up
This is not just an operating system; it’s an operating system for M&S
Blog That’s the thing about retail technology stories isn’t it? You wait for one forever and then three come along at once. The evil forces at Microsoft (just kidding) clearly knew I was blogging on...
