Previous DayOlympics budget forgets the cost of IT
Blog The Government did not budget for the cost of IT for the Olympic Games, it has emerged this week. A Public Accounts Committee report revealed that the Olympic Delivery Authority failed to...
London gets free Wi-Fi
News The Thames has been lined with free wireless internet coverage, contrasting with the raft of paid-for hotspots emerging across the country
Adobe Flash exploit could log keystrokes
News Company has issued three critical security updates for its Flash Player, with threats including keylogging and cross-site forgery attacks
Video: Samsung's 80GB USB 'pocket drive'
Video Company's new hard-drive lineup includes a 1TB hard drive, a notebook drive running Vista, and a pocket-sized, 80GB drive
IBM releases AIX public beta
News IBM is hoping to lure Linux users and others to the operating system with its first public beta, providing a more complete virtualisation offering
Microsoft delves deeper into security
News Company announces a funding boost for Forefront, its business security software, and a new version of the controversial OneCare antivirus product
Ubuntu 7.04
Review Ubuntu is very user-friendly but not right for everyone. Oddly, both casual and advanced users will find this operating system wonderful, while day-to-day users may rail against Ubuntu's...
Tiscali buys most of Pipex
Blog See update below, and full story here Is it true? Is it not? Dunno, and that's why it's going in a blog post rather than a story. If you're interested, though, check out a Times article on...
Customer support? Get lost...
Blog Brilliant story here from the BBC, which reports that US comms giant Sprint Nextel has ditched a thousand customers who committed the heinous crime of calling their customer support line too often....
Users are biggest threat to mobile-phone security
News Social engineering is being used to manipulate people into installing malware onto their phones
Italian develops first multi-site web-mail worm
News Nduja Connection worm has the potential to spread quickly due to its ability to infect users of four different web email clients
Global market hit by 'DIY' offshoring bug
News Offshoring to a wholly owned captive operation is on the increase, leading to a slowdown in outsourcing activity
Sun says Java flaw has been patched
News A Java security threat, the subject of an earlier Australian report, has been addressed and fixed, Sun says
Web leaders: Search is just the beginning
News Search execs on a conference panel express intent to expand hosted apps, social networks and market share
