Previous DayDon’t give your PIN to the cleaning lady
Blog In terms of data security I was interested (well, sort of) to read that temporary staff, cleaners, salesmen and security guards are perceived as the least trustworthy members of staff. Well,...
RE:Security relationships
Blog Comment In a previous life, I was a teenage hacker; one, moreover, known to the media. This was when hacking was new, weird and (as proved by a court case inspired by antics in which I had a hand) legal....
Sun to ship Microsoft OS on servers
News The long-time rivals and occasional collaborators have announced Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Windows Server 2003 installed
ZDNet community gets an upgrade
Blog By now you should have noticed at least a couple of the changes we made recently to our community pages to help promote your posts better and make them easier to find. In case you missed it,...
Lenovo unveils its smallest desktop PC yet
Photo The PC manufacturer's smallest desktop PC to date is also its most environmentally friendly, it claims
ZDNet shortlisted twice in industry awards
Blog ZDNet has been shortlisted twice in the AOP 2007 awards. The organisers, the Association of Online Publishers, say they received 320 entries overall this year - some 50 percent up on last year - so...
Fujitsu Services settles union dispute
News After voting to accept an offer from Fujitsu Services, more than 1,000 employees will end the series of strikes
RE:Security relationships
Blog Comment Just stop to consider for a moment what "only as good as the user" means. How do you know anything about security? Was it magically injected into your brain, or assimilated at birth? No, you were...
Extreme Blue: IBM's student demo
Photo Each summer since 1999, IBM has run a 12-week internship called Extreme Blue. This allows selected groups of students to develop cutting-edge research projects. Here's a selection of this year's...
Embarcadero updates ER/Studio modelling tool
News The data-modelling tool now offers support for XML schema generation, allowing software engineers to collaborate more widely on SOA initiatives
HP challenges Dell in the SME market
News Two of the biggest suppliers of storage systems for SMEs are going head-to-head with cheaper, lightweight alternatives
Reinstall Windows to get a hinge repaired? Ridiculous!
Talkback They're "The Tech Guys", aren't they? Why not just swap out the hard disk with one with Windows pre-installed on it? OK, I suppose they'd almost certainly have to reactivate Windows too, but that...
Google has a history of releasing incomplete products,
Talkback Who would know more about" releasing incomplete products" than Microsoft? Everything they have marketed has been in perpetual beta, with the consumer paying the consequence. Just look at VISTA.
NEC launches vPro PCs
News The company has unveiled notebook and desktop PCs designed to take advantage of Intel's remote-management technology
UK failing to exploit open source
News Speakers at a Westminster eForum have warned that businesses and the government are not taking full advantage of open source
Virtual friends are only virtual
Blog A piece of research by a chap called Will Reader (should've been an estate lawyer) over at Sheffield Hallam Uni has "revealed" the virtual nature of friends made over social networking sites.
Wanless urges review of NPfIT
News Sir Derek Wanless has called for an independent external audit to assess the costs and benefits of the NHS IT programme
China accused of cyberattacks on New Zealand
News The New Zealand secret service has hinted that the Chinese government is responsible for recent attacks on the country's networks
Microsoft and Novell open joint virtualisation lab
News Virtualisation tops the project list at a joint lab founded by Microsoft and Novell, as part of their controversial patent agreement
Fun and games with OOXML
Blog Quick quiz - no referring. 1. Who said... "Well, its too early for other vendors to commit to this file format. After the BRM [Ballot Resolution Meeting - in February 2008] there may be...
One in three IT projects exceeds budget
News A survey has found that the reasons for overspending include poor forecasting, increases in scope and conflicts between multiple projects
Antitrust concerns prompt Vista search changes
News The software maker agreed in June to make alterations to to the way desktop search operates in response to concerns from rivals, particularly Google
