Previous DayNortel UK goes into administration
News Nortel UK's operations have gone into administration after the parent company filed for bankruptcy protection, with no immediate decision on 2,000 jobs
Some Hope
Talkback As a veteran of the hacker prosecution (or is that persecution?) I hope that with the US Administration going out some new sense will come in regarding Gary - whatever you believe about if what he...
Salesforce tackles service through the cloud
News The company's Service Cloud can bind companies more closely to their customers, according to Salesforce
Deadline set for Nasa-hacker prosecution decision
News The director of public prosecutions will give a decision whether to prosecute McKinnon in the UK in the next four weeks, according to McKinnon's solicitor
MySQL developer denied Australian visa
News Immigration authorities in Australia have denied a business visa to a Sun MySQL developer seeking to attend the Linux.conf.au in Hobart
Nortel still OK with 2012 Olympic commitments, OK?
Blog Nortel, which has just gone Chapter 11, wants us to know that everything is still fine with its commitments re the 2012 London Olympics. A statement came through today from Mario DiMascio, the...
Motorola announces further job cuts
News Struggling handset maker plans to cut another 4,000 jobs and warns that weaker-than-expected handset sales would lead to a fourth-quarter loss
I just made the switch too - my story
Talkback Having just made the switch after being a Windows users for many years I found it less painful than the author's story, but still a pain in many regards. Whilst I appreciate that the Mac is...
Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud
News Micro Focus is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
Toshiba, Fujitsu in talks over disk businesses
News The two hard-drive makers admit they are in joint discussions about their disk-making activities but say no decision has yet been made about future operations
Campaign calls for diversity in engineering
Blog The field of engineering is, proportionately speaking, low on women, ethnic minorities and the disabled. Ergo, the Royal Society of Engineering has launched its Diversity in Engineering Campaign,...
Transport mail from Windows to Mac
Talkback If there are any would be Mac users reading this I would not be put off my switching mail platforms When I switched machines and had a large .pst file to get across I used Little Machines as a...
Downadup worm infects 3.5m PCs
News Security company F-Secure has warned of a potential 'big badass botnet', as the Microsoft-flaw-exploiting Downadup worm swiftly spreads
So who will run Apple while Jobs is away?
Analysis With Steve Jobs on medical leave until June, a group of key Apple executives will be stepping up to take the company's helm
RE:Mobile Payment: Potential and reality for Nigeria
Blog Comment There are many issues here. The first is that the places where we've seen great sucess have been those where the process has been driven by networks and not the banks. Mobile phone networks are...
RE:xG update - 2009 starts with silence
Blog Comment Hi, Phil Ah, well... it struck me one day that SETI was probably doomed - apart from an initial stage where radio transmissions are extremely powerful and omnidirectional, every technological...
Re: open source and support
Talkback pjc158 states: "Could there be a backlash from customers when the people developing the open source products disappear and they have not any support?" If the developers building the open source...
PC shipment growth grinds to a halt in Q4
News For the first time since early 2001, growth in the PC industry slowed to virtually zero with overall shipments worldwide dropping 0.4 percent to 77.3 million units during the fourth quarter
Symantec turns to virtualisation, cloud computing
News New technologies from the security software company use virtualisation and cloud computing to protect web surfers and let them use web applications from one site
RE:Every child in Portugal and Venezuala will have open source
Blog Comment This is truly excellent news. I hope that it sets a precedent, or at least a good example, for other countries, school systems, or anyone else. If you (or anyone else) is able to follow up on...
Microsoft updates Windows Azure tools
News The software maker said it has it has fixed bugs and sped up the performance of the developer tools needed to write programs for Microsoft's cloud-based operating system
Steve Jobs on medical leave until June
News Jobs has said in a letter that he will step down as Apple CEO while he recuperates from a medical condition disclosed earlier this month; COO Tim Cook will stand in
Once again I argue show me the proof
Talkback If open source is so wonderful and so much money can be made from it where are all the financially strong open source companies (I can name only but a few)? It seems to me that the actual companies...
Comms minister calls for universal broadband access
News Lord Stephen Carter says access to broadband could offer 'enormous' benefits for e-government, changing the way it delivers services to the public
