Previous DayLarge public-sector project flops.. due to poor management!
Talkback I think that the title is comprehensively misleading. If four or five systems administrators at a school in Skegness can roll out 120 computers, which use far more demanding programmes that a...
Broadcom kernel exploit affects many laptops
News A wireless security flaw that poses a threat to manufacturers such as Dell and HP has been divulged
Deutsche Telekom sheds CEO
Blog The analysts have come out in force to mourn (sort of) the passing of DT head honcho Kai Uwe-Ricke, who got the boot yesterday. He'll probably be replaced by Rene Obermann, CEO of T-Mobile. ...
BT delays hinder superfast broadband rollout
News ADSL2+ rollout scheduled for between 2007 and 2011, as BT admits it is inextricably linked to delayed 21CN project
Qualcomm launches mobile convergence platform
News Hyper-connective Snapdragon platform could power future ultramobile PCs, smartphones and handheld gaming consoles
Get up to speed on ITIL
Feature Many IT pros don't fully understand ITIL, so follow this list to find out the key facts
NTL tackles its customer service
Blog News just in: NTL's addressing its customer service issues by adding "a new back office system from Convergys". Not a bad idea at all, seeing as it currently has (count 'em) four billing and...
Public sector losing focus?
Talkback This story just demonstates how the public sector has completely lost focus as to who they serve. If this amount of money had been wasted on such a project in the private sector the persons...
Businesses urged to address VoIP threats
News Analyst warns steps must be taken to protect against potential security risks such as voice spam and phishing
Management not software
Talkback Some facts have been omitted from this article which shed further light on the appalling waste of taxpayers money that was the Birmingham City Council's Linux trial: 1) A trial of 4 differently...
Granger grassed by mum over IT failure
Blog Oh dear oh dear - turns out Richard Granger, head of the NHS's IT revamp (the largest civilian IT project in the world, lest you forget) failed his computer studies course at Bristol Uni. This...
Stolen Nationwide laptop prompts FSA probe
News Mystery surrounds potential threat facing customers after the theft of a Nationwide Building Society laptop
Open source in plain English
Comment Discussions about open source often get bogged down in technical or political terms, at the expense of straight facts about its benefits
Microsoft launches site for IT pros
News Software giant has introduced social-networking site Aggreg8, although few details are available at present
Large public-sector Linux project flops
News Birmingham City Council received £500k of public money, but rolled out only 200 Linux PCs
Intel researches nanotubes for chip designs
News Chip giant is eyeing carbon nanotubes as a replacement for copper wires to speed up connections
Novell in trouble?
Talkback It's interesting that Samba programmers have just attacked Novell over its deal with Microsoft. Is this the start of the backlash?
Virtualisation speed test being developed
News An industry group is working on a way to determine the fastest virtualisation software
RE:EU body slams biometric ID cards
Blog Comment I liked the report's point that once biometric details have been stolen they can't exactly be changed, as you could with a stolen password. The imagery this evokes is quite funny - or horrific,...
Cray to announce Opteron-based supercomputer
News New machine represents part of the company's plan to converge its four product lines
Vista's journey isn't over yet
News Microsoft has sent the code to manufacturing, but PC makers still have plenty of work to do
In praise of The Grauniad
Blog As a one-time Production Editor in the olde worlde of print, I was pleased to see Kim Fletcher's article in today's Media Guardian, entitled 'In praise of the subeditor'. He deftly explains the...
Java released under the GPL
News It's finally happened, but the surprise is that Sun's picked the General Public License
