Previous DaySilly idea anyway!
Talkback What a bizarre idea from the outset. Why was the Waterloo and City line chosen? It's so short and the journey so quick it seems a nonsense to spend money on this one. In any case every time I've...
Cisco brings out blades in grand datacentre push
News The company has pulled in a troupe of major technology partners for its Unified Computing effort to provide everything needed for a datacentre — including selling its first server hardware
ENTRY THROUGH USB
Talkback One statement in the report, that I would like to point out is: A second variant, Conficker.B, was detected last month. It added the ability to spread through network shares and via removable...
Ericsson claims 500Mbps speeds over copper
News The communications company says it has demonstrated speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper infrastructure, using a new technology called 'vectorised' VDSL2
Terry Waite speaks for Nasa hacker
Blog The Pentagon should thank Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon for "exposing the fragility" of US military systems, according to Terry Waite. Waite, who was held hostage in Lebanon for four years after...
Rackspace challenges Amazon with cloud services
News The company's Cloud Server product has gone live, adding the third and final component to Rackspace's cloud-computing line-up
BBC responds to botnet illegality claims
Blog The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet. BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had...
HP memo tells of further cuts to EDS salaries
News The company has told employees of EDS, which it acquired last year, that their salaries will temporarily be cut by 10 percent more than was announced last month
IBM floats vision of the cloud's future
Q&A The head of IBM's cloud-computing strategy talks about why the company wanted to develop the technology, and where he plans to take it
Asus cuts Eee PC storage options
News The manufacturer will soon stop offering a choice between solid-state and hard-disk storage for its Eee PC, an Asus spokesperson has said
HP 2133 Mini-Note / PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Instructions
Blog I have posted detailed instructions for installing and configuring PCLinuxOS 2009.1 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, on the Linux Laptop Wiki. This distribution works extremely well on the Mini-Note. ...
Symbian sets timetable for OS releases
News The Symbian Foundation has pledged to release a new version of its mobile operating system every six months after it launches the first version later this year
Motion Computing J3400
Review If you need a rugged tablet PC that can do a full day's work in the field, Motion Computing's wide-screen J3400 will do the job very satisfactorily. However, it's not the lightest tablet we've...
Europe's mobile-banking users to top 100m
News According to a report by analysts Berg Insight, by 2014 there will be 110 million mobile banking users on the continent and a further 80 million in North America
Taiwan gov't scraps plans for chip merger
News The government had intended to establish a new state-backed company from the consolidation of six of the country's DRAM players, but it has proved 'too complicated and difficult'
Downadup heading for April Fool's mayhem
News The worm blocks access to protective services, downloads a Trojan and is programmed to seek out 50,000 domains on 1 April, as the authors of the worm try to outsmart security vendors
Microsoft, researcher clash over security patch
News A security researcher has complained that a recent Microsoft patch fails to protect users, but the software maker says doing things differently would have interfered with functionality
London Underground shelves mobile plans
News Plans to introduce mobile connectivity across the Tube network appear to have stalled due to the high costs involved
Heterogeneous surveillance tools for blended data shops
Blog Have you ever noticed how DBAs, SAs and developers alike seem to get very attached to their databases in an almost emotional sense? I worked on a feature last month with a DBA who detailed a...
