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Blog Comment "Microsoft (a company historically championed for their innovation)" "I believe it’s time for Microsoft to revisit their roots of innovation" - really? You must be talking about a different...
BT to speed up next-gen broadband rollout
News The telco will look for a way to deliver fibre-based 100Mbps broadband to more than a million locations by next year, twice as fast as it had planned
Ubuntu gets web-based file sync and sharing
News Ubuntu One service lets people share files with others over the internet, with a choice of using client software or a web interface
Oracle acquires Virtual Iron
News The database software giant says it will buy virtualisation software maker Virtual Iron, a deal that should put pressure on niche leader VMware
Google: People will get used to Street View
Blog Google's privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has told ZDNet UK that people "will get used" to Street View. Last month, villagers in the Buckinghamshire town of Broughton surrounded a Street View car...
HP wants your data
Blog Just finished a day at HP's advanced data centre – er, centre – at Isle d'Abeau, near Lyon. It was useful to catch-up with HP's thinking with respect to data centres, and a chance to talk to one of...
Facebook comes under phishing attack again
News Hackers successfully gathered passwords from users of the social-networking site, which came under a similar attack only two weeks ago
MoD loses 28 laptops this year
News Defence minister Bob Ainsworth has said the MoD has lost the laptops, 20 USB sticks, and 4 PCs this year
EU chooses providers of satellite mobile services
News Inmarsat and Solaris will be allowed to run services such as high-speed internet access, mobile TV and satellite telephony in Europe
Firefox 3.5 RC1 on track for early June
Blog Firefox 3.5, which reached the Beta 4 milestone at the end of April, is now full steam ahead for Release Candidate (RC) status. According to the mozilla.dev.planning Google Group, the code will be...
IDC: Virtual servers set to overtake physical boxes
News IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time in 2009, according to IDC
Privacy tsar: Gov't will collect less data
News The outgoing information commissioner Richard Thomas says that in the government, the tide is turning against data collection
Qt opens source code repositories
Blog Since attending the company’s ‘developer days’ event in Munich in late Autumn of last year, I’ve been keeping an inquisitive eye open for news emanating from Nokia, Qt Software. Also, with Sun’s...
Government may revive data-sharing plan
News The government may try to give itself more data-sharing powers through primary legislation, according to justice secretary Jack Straw
Living with the Sony Vaio P
Blog Living with the Sony Vaio P I’ve had a Sony Vaio P in the office for a few weeks now, but it was only this last weekend that I really put it through its paces. I was going away for a few days...
RE:It's Just How Things Are. (So I'm Told).
Blog Comment when ie7 was first rolled out it caused a number of blue screens. It was only subsequent updates about 2-3 months later which fixed the issues. The second point is IE7 uses more system resources...
Vista is #1 (of the Ten Biggest Failures of the Last Decade)
Blog Just read an interesting article listing the Ten Biggest Failures of the Last Decade. How nice to see that Vista is #1 at something! I wonder if Microsoft will have two of the top ten spots a...
MP: Internet 'too fast for legislation'
Video Community action as well as international law enforcement is necessary to police the internet, MP Alun Michael told ZDNet UK at the Infosecurity Europe 2009 event in London
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries
News The voluntary recall of lithium-ion batteries affects several models of its HP and Compaq notebooks and comes after reports of overheating
Google network outage hit one in seven users
News Google's network updates cause worldwide problems, but the company promises it won't happen again
Acpo: Police swamped by CCTV data
News The director of information for the Association of Chief Police Officers has said the overwhelming volume of CCTV data could threaten public safety
Group aims to keep MySQL healthy
News One of MySQL's co-founders has started up a consortium to act as an industry hub for MariaDB, his enterprise-grade branch of MySQL, in the wake of Oracle's takeover of Sun
Ten key web-based Linux tools
Comment The sheer choice of web-based Linux tools is bewildering, so Jack Wallen picks out 10 of his favourites
Soca puts a clamp on cybercrime
News The agency, which is charged with fighting e-crime, says it has prevented losses millions of pounds as a result of its efforts.
RE:Windows 7: Paint a Lemon and Call it Innovation?
Blog Comment @Conz, I think MS will get round this one by producing a 'home licence', which allows you to install on 3 or more computers, similar to Apple Macs. So in effect you pay for one licence - but can...
African Banks and MNO:Same road different destinations
Blog African Banks vs MNO: Same road different destination For Millions of Africans that are still formally excluded from any formal financial services, How and where they get such services is of...
WINE and the importance of application compatibility
Blog With much talk in recent days about the worthwhile-ness and importance of WINE to the success of desktop Linux, I though it worth re-posting a piece I'd penned a little while ago... One of my...
