Previous DaySCO files for Chapter 11...
Blog From the press release: "LINDON, Utah, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services,...
Palm unveils Treo 500v
News The unveiling of the 3G smartphone comes as Palm tries to recover from recent setbacks
Big Brother?
Talkback Fortunately, I do not live in London and nor will I ever do so with the sort of surveillance levels that Westminster City Council is proposing. It is about time that protest was made against this...
Sun names Xen-based hypervisor 'xVM'
News The company has revealed the name of its Solaris-based offshoot of the Xen open-source hypervisor project
The pig farmer's guide to IT politics
Leader In 1945, Orwell published a classic fairy tale of power and betrayal. It still illuminates IT's dark side in 2007
Apple invite sparks iPhone rumours
News The company has invited key media to a press conference in London next week, prompting speculation it may be about to name the European carrier for the iPhone
Donated PCs become African multimedia centres
Photo Computers for Schools Kenya is taking PCs that no longer cut it in UK enterprises and giving them a new lease of life in African schools
Dell delays filing financial reports again
News The PC maker hopes to complete the filing of its financial statements for the first two quarters of the year by November
EDS offers retirement to quarter of US staff
News Twelve thousand of EDS's US workforce have been offered early retirement after orders dropped in the second quarter
Google sponsors robotic race to the moon
News The search giant has backed a private competition to land a robot on the moon, with a first prize of $20m
A false Windows Update
Talkback This is totally unacceptable! If they can access your machine at will, then how do you know they aren't getting more information from your hard drive? This being a "swiss cheese" OS they can grab...
because it "just works"
Talkback They must be using a different kind of windows than everyone else, because all I've read is that it doesn't "just work". VISTA is one of the worst, from most forum posters. We use XP at work and it...
Users irate at Windows stealth update
News Microsoft has come under fire for automatically uploading and installing files to PCs after users forbade automatic installation of patches
Microsoft rules...
Blog Rule 1: Microsoft is right Rule 2: When Microsoft isn't right, rule 1 is applied Why this statement? Easy, I emailed a complaint regarding an MVP and I'm answered twice with the same...
Government: Mobiles are safe
News A report from the Health Protection Agency finds no link between mobile phones and ill health, but urges further investigation into long-term effects and the impact on children
Lawyer: Microsoft patent claims won't affect UK
News The patents which Microsoft claims are infringed by open-source software do not apply in the UK, a leading British tech lawyer has said
crossed wires
Talkback I think this is a classic case of person A arguing that "coal is not yellow" and person B arguing that "coal is not orange"! Both ACS and Wyse are completely right to point out the obvious...
Google is not quite 10 yet
Blog Reports are circulating on the internets that Google is 10 years old tomorrow. Take, for example, this piece from Yahoo News, bearing the headline "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the...
Fresh calls for data-breach law
News Key representatives from the House of Lords, Metropolitan Police and Information Commissioner's Office are supporting the introduction of a data-breach notification law
Adobe's Chinese torture
Blog Adobe sent me a copy of Creative Suite 3 Production Premium to play with recently, which was nice. So this morning I thought I'd install it (or some of it anyway), which turned out to be a real...
Antivirus is biggest security expense
News Customers are getting more demanding, while the security market starting to see a gradual consolidation around fewer players
MPs pan NHS care-records rollout
News A report by the Health Select Committee on the national electronic care record scheme critisised delays and 'vague and inconsistent' plans
Fun with Dell and HP
Blog There is some rivalry between these two systems giant, which was apparent this week. The fun started last week when HP invited the press to a meeting about a new system targeted at SMEs to take...
Parallels making virtualisation jump to servers
News A company whose virtualisation software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market
Google proposes global privacy standard
News The search giant wants a standard based on actual harm to the consumer, but a privacy advocate says the proposed guidelines are weak
'Users would adopt Microsoft software because it "just works...
Talkback Really? It's because Microsoft's software just does not work that I moved to Open source - which in most cases does! It's about time the UK woke up to this, and to the savings that could be...
VMware demos next-gen virtualisation
News The EMC subsidiary shows crash-proofing technology that lets a machine take over where another left off, plus other virtual goodies
