Previous DayRE:OLPC meltdown - or, the side-effects of working closely with...
Blog Comment I am just saddened by the way this seems to be disintegrating. There was so much potential. However I disagree with the comment about just giving them Windows and IE. That is the way to train...
Saving Bletchley Park is crucial
Talkback What was achieved there is recognised to be of fundamental importance to both winning the war (Churchill visited to say 'thank you' to them) and the development of the computer. Maybe Bill Gates...
IT Departments Are More Than A Fixer
Blog It’s probably fair to say that the majority of end users still perceive IT as a support function. The general perception by those in cubicles is that the IT department’s main function is to...
RE:Red Hat defends UK's open source record
Blog Comment That's a good point. It's easy to lump open source together, including infrastructure, operating systems and applications. In many cases, it may be possible to move operating system, but still be...
IBM introduces new hybrid blade
News The QS22 uses a mix of cell processors on blade technology to bring high-performance computing to small and medium-sized businesses
Qualcomm buys UK mobile-TV spectrum
News Seventeen lots of spectrum in the mobile TV-friendly L-band have been won in an Ofcom auction by Qualcomm, at a cost of £8.3m
RE:The game's up for Vista
Blog Comment an ouch moment for Microsoft, it's hard to convince the rest of us that their latest OS is truely their best when the experts pragmatically disagree. I don't think it's the end for Vista though;...
Mobile Surfin’ USA
Blog If everybody had a mobile – across the USA… OK, I’ll stop there. Actually, I’m not much of a Beach Boys fan. But betwixt a number of US-based events as I am, I think I’m more acutely aware of the...
The game's up for Vista
Blog I got an interesting invite last night to the media launch of a dedicated gaming centre housed in an HMV store in central London. Resplendent with around 80 Quad core PCs and Dual Core...
Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards
News The company has put the 'instant-on' Splashtop distro into some motherboards since last year, and is to extend the tie-in across its whole range
Most secure version of Windows
Talkback They have said this about every version since 3.0. ActiveX has been a security hole since it's inception, and the fact that it is used in web sites is NOT the user's fault. Typically Micro$oft's...
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News The company's tech increases the power of the sun's rays by a factor of 10, using liquid metal to transfer the resulting heat from solar cells
Silverlight open-source implementation released
News The Mono project this week made the first public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of the Silverlight rich media browser tech
Nominate your IT Community Hero
Blog CNET Networks UK is currently accepting entries for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, and for the IT Community Hero award we though we’d put it out there to ask you who you...
VeriSign will not revive Site Finder despite patent
News The controversial URL-typo redirection service will not make a reappearance, despite the belated award of a patent for the technique
Google soft-launches translated search
Blog For all the easy mockery that automatic translation services can inspire, they are nonetheless much better than nothing. However, they are generally a fairly unidirectional affair - you bung in the...
Dell to cut PC power by 25 percent
News The company says will cut power consumption of its PCs and notebooks by a quarter in the next two years, largely by reliance on its suppliers
Soca reveals its cybercrime-fighting successes
News A report detailing work by the Serious Organised Crime Agency over the past year revealed some e-crime successes, yet cybercrime still seems to be a low priority
Researcher: Debian cryptography may be flawed
News All OpenSSL keys generated between September 2006 and May 2008 may be invalid, according to a security researcher
Defra deploys Vista, citing green credentials
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs expects the Microsoft operating system to reduce its carbon footprint while the BitLocker encryption system will boost security
EC eyes tech as key to greener future
News The Commission is supporting the intelligent use of tech to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions across Europe's economy
Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability claims
News A security researcher says Safari users risk littering their desktops with malicious software because the browser does not ask for user permission when downloading files
Microsoft officially teams up with OLPC
News The XO machine will now be available in both Linux and Windows varieties, a move that OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte says helps give the laptop credibility
Gizmo Adds Business Enhancements and More IM Networks
Blog Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio calls (including PSTN calls worldwide) for quite some time now. The chat interface is clean and easy to...
RE:Windows Driver Updates
Blog Comment Since installing SP1 I cannot copy large files to the network server - Vista gives up after 5 minutes and pretenteds it cannot read the c drive and then , just for added excitement, if I'm copying...
