Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 9/10/2006 HP has been busy staking out its Vision of the Future, and it looks like a manacle. Steady on, chaps. I know things have been a bit dodgy at the top, but there's no call for...
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Comment HP gets rather too hands on, SCO's secrets revealed, the birth of GooTube and the strange case of Symantec's R&D. And what can possibly go wrong for us on Friday 13th?
Arrests made over £350,000 router theft
News Thousands of stolen D-Link routers are being sold on Internet auction sites at a fraction of their normal cost
Do your bit to bridge Africa's digital divide
News The IT industry can work together to help developing countries share in the technical advances we all take for granted
StarOffice gains smart drive mobility
News Sun's office suite adds to the portfolio of applications available on the U3 smart drive platform
Met criticises local police e-crime response
News Plans to set up a central e-crime unit are being welcomed by senior police officers who have expressed concerns about local police responses
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
News Annual showcase for US optical society explains how noise can be used to successfully transport encrypted messages
Analysts warn of rising remote worker costs
News Gartner claims costs could rise tenfold over the next four years without firm policies and controls
Orange to review high-street strategy
News The day after Vodafone goes exclusive with Phones 4u, Orange says its own relationship with the big phone retail chains could change
Cost blamed for gloomy global 3G outlook
News Despite heavy promotion by operators and vendors, the number of phone users looking to take up 3G services has dropped in the last year, a study shows
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield
Blog Which one have you been in this design process? Is this film about the bugs we are trying to find on ZDNet?
Windows PatchGuard expected to be hacked soon
News Microsoft's Windows protection technology will be broken sooner rather than later, a security expert has predicted
OpenVZ virtualisation comes to Power chips
News SWsoft plans to announce a new version of the Linux virtualisation software that works on Power processors
Novell makes file system software change
News New versions of Suse Linux Enterprise will use ext3 rather than the current default, ReiserFS
HP gets new ethics officer
News Jon Hoak will replace Kevin Hunsaker, who currently faces criminal charges relating to the company's spying scandal
Microsoft moves key security into Windows unit
News The software maker will shift Trustworthy Computing and other efforts to Windows Core OS division



