Previous DayEvery child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog The Magelhaes (Magellan) initiative of the Portuguese government is giving every child in the country an Intel Classmate PC for 50 euros - and they are dual-boot machines running XP and a local...
Mobile Payment: Potential and reality for Nigeria
Blog The ability to pay for goods and services without having to carry cash or cards has universal appeal. In Africa it is being driven by the need to reduce the risk of theft. The mobile is ideal...
RE:xG update - 2009 starts with silence
Blog Comment Great piece, as usual! Hey, you just helped me figure out xG's business model. Create irresistible curiosity in the telecom world with vague press releases that promise the world a paradigm shift...
RE:BCS: Fibre could last us 'a century'
Blog Comment The killer app is video games in the cloud or via graphical server farms, allowing limitless graphical capabilities. Multiplayer 3D Rendering/lighting of games takes place in the cloud. HD Video of...
xG update - 2009 starts with silence
Blog It's 2009. Let's have a look at my old pals xG Technology, the Florida-based wireless data company who've been promising incredibly cheap, incredibly high performance mobile phones for a few years...
Learning from UN's security failure
Leader The UN has found massive flaws in its internal IT security, for reasons that may be all too familiar in the boardroom
Demand for key IT skills remains high
News Certain IT skills will remain in short supply over the next two years despite the financial downturn, according to the latest IT employment survey from the NCC
Most MoD systems miss gov't security target
News The secretary of state for defence has admitted that barely a quarter of the systems used by the Ministry of Defence and its agencies have been fully accredited under the government's security...
UN audit finds weakness in peacekeepers' IT
News IT systems for UN peacekeeping logistics were insecure last year, according to an internal UN report, but some secure transmission standards are being deliberately avoided due to their bandwidth...
Unpatched Safari bug exposes sensitive info
News Safari users are vulnerable to a bug that could allow a malicious website to read files on their hard drive, according to a security researcher
£20bn gov't scheme to help SMEs in credit crunch
News Business secretary Lord Mandelson has introduced government loan guarantees and investment designed to help small companies with cash flow and credit during the downturn
RE:BCS: Fibre could last us 'a century'
Blog Comment Surely on demand HD Video is the killer app, you only need to look at the success of services such as iPlayer to see that there is a market there clamouring for better qualilty video. In fact isn't...
Emerging markets at greater risk of cybercrime
News A report from MessageLabs says emerging economies, such as Brazil, India and China, are at higher risk of being exposed to cyberthreats
BCS: Fibre could last us 'a century'
Blog According to David Evans of the British Computer Society, speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on "Digital Britain", a nationwide fibre access broadband network deployed now could still be in use in...
So what of Dark Fibre?
Talkback I would assume from your stated speed that you are 'out in the boonies'. I am prepared to be corrected on this. I have heard from many FSB members who are, like you, trying to run their businesses...
Be fair
Talkback So, it's mainly third party software you have problems with (I know, most of what you want to use is third party). I, too, don't understand the vast difference between Office:Mac and Office:PC but,...
Microsoft fixes holes in Server Message Block
News The software giant has released security update to fix weaknesses in the network file-sharing protocol used in Windows
Industry experts offer tips for IT job hunters
News While the number of IT vacancies being advertised has declined, there are still jobs out there for techies brave enough to take a leap of faith. Industry experts offer some words of advice to job...
Lib Dems set up Commission on Privacy
Blog The Liberal Democrats have set up a group to examine the use, abuse, and retention of private data. The Commission on Privacy was announced on Tuesday. Chairing the group will be Lib Dem MP...
UK cybercrime unit tasked with securing Olympics IT
News The Police Central E-Crime Unit is in talks with IT suppliers to London 2012 to secure the Games's IT backbone, while police say they are already seeing scam websites
Microsoft testing next version of Exchange
News The new version, code-named E14, is being further tweaked to run as a hosted service as well as a server
HMRC seeks CIO to help overhaul IT dept
News The taxman is seeking a chief information officer to head up a staff of 1,400 and a budget of £1bn in one of Europe's largest IT departments
RIM patches BlackBerry security flaw
News Interim patches address critical security flaws that could allow a malicious PDF file to cause memory corruption or lead to arbitrary code execution on computers that host the BlackBerry Attachment...
Google to roll out reseller programme for Apps
News The search giant is launching a programme for its partners to resell Google Apps together with bundled services, opening up the SaaS platform for new markets
Yahoo announces Carol Bartz as CEO
News The former Autodesk chairman has replaced Jerry Yang as chief executive. Yahoo also announced the departure of president Sue Decker
RE:There be dragons here.....
Blog Comment Pretty good set of "worst" programming practices, well worth reading and keeping in mind as I bang away on my keyboards. As far as college, it should be a mandatory computer science study, call it...
