Previous DayRE:Why Skype Insists on Spouting Inflated User Numbers
Blog Comment Possibly true. But I have yet to see anyone prove that the statements I have made in my blog are not true. If they are demeaning, that's sad. For the case in point, you came up with the numbers,...
VMware apologises for licensing bug
News CEO Paul Maritz has apologised for a coding mistake which led to the latest version of VMware's hypervisors not being able to power on again after being switched off
Open-source licence victory in model-railway case
News A federal judge in the US has ruled that an open-source licence should have the same legal enforceability as traditional copyright
How hard can programming be?
Blog I was bemoaning the lack of a polished GUI text editor for Linux. or I was waxing lyrical about the elegantly finished open source GUI text editors on Windows, such as Notepad++ and Notepad2,...
Mitigating the fallout
Talkback While there is certainly a non-vanishing risk of some phisher posing as openid.sun.com, we have taken certain steps to make sure that our users are reasonably protected: the weak Debian-generated...
Dutch police and FBI crack Shadow botnet
News The law-enforcement bodies have cracked a major botnet, asking antivirus company Kaspersky to help victims clean up the malware on their PCs
RE:Time For Goverments To Come Off Line
Blog Comment Actually the military here in the US does operate a separate network system from the Internet. The way they insure secrecy is they own all the hardware and they protect it with guns and manpower....
Symantec wins £700k in counterfeit-software case
News The security giant has won what it claims is its largest award in an fake-software case so far in the UK
RE:Android devs less than gruntled
Blog Comment Only by adding the text "This is an automated email - please don't reply" could google have further indicated how much they really couldn't care less. Rather poor show on Googles part, hopefully...
Demand for IT pros falling, says Monster
News The number of IT vacancies advertised has taken a tumble, according to the online recruitment firm, as part of a wider slowdown in the UK job market
USB 3.0 will not be forked
News AMD expressed satisfaction after Intel released part of the draft specification for the next version of USB
Android devs less than gruntled
Blog Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a...
Hello, hello, hello
Blog This press release just in: "Lincolnshire Police gets a brid's eye view with GeoPerspectives aerial imagery Leicestershire, UK, 14 August 2008 - The latest high-resolution aerial photography...
Femtocells tipped to save operators over $5bn
News Analyst Informa says femtocells will help mobile operators save on network infrastructure costs, as long as customers can be persuaded to buy them
Yahoo makes board decision as deadline looms
News The internet company is reportedly close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr as additional board members, as part of its settlement agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn
HSBC may roll out iPhone to 200,000 staff
News Global banking giant HSBC is considering adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a decision that would come as a major blow to BlackBerry maker RIM
Gov't: Comms database may not deter serious crime
News The government has admitted that the proposed £68m communications database will be of limited use in tackling organised criminals who may be too 'savvy'
.. but in a few % of cases
Talkback PC P: Just put your finger on the scanner here seeing as you 'aint got any ID and I'll just make a quick check to confirm that you are who you say you are. Ok? Smiff: Can I call my lawyer first? PC...
Intel readies remote PC access function
News The new technology will allow PCs to be activated and accessed remotely when in 'sleep' mode, rather than leaving computers powered on indefinitely
IDEAS - Identify, Engage & Assessment Statement
Talkback Andrew, I will now respond to the following closing comments from one of your last posts to this Story. My consideration may hopefully provide some food for thought: .....In closing, I would like...
RE:Is this the future for legal P2P?
Blog Comment I do wish people would squash (or at least not repeat) this P2P is illegal nonsense. I've been using it for years for software updates etc. Besides which, copyright infringement is not necessarily...
RE:Why Skype Insists on Spouting Inflated User Numbers
Blog Comment I am "The Borderless Communicator" (http://glimfeather.com/index.html), and you sir have unfortunately gotten it wrong again. While it is true that Skype's count of "registered users" is...
Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 CTP#1 & CTP#2
Blog (or Micro$oft decided to let the marketing hacks screw with XPE.) What really cranks the whole thing was that after going to MEDC last year, after being told by the XPE MS people and...
