Previous DayRE:Carphone emails fuel iPhone scandal
Blog Comment these people are amazing, publicly; it was employee's mistake, we'll rectify it through better training. internally; sorry guys, its not your fault. By the way, i doubt anybody would settle for...
Phone networks could learn from the alcohol industry
Talkback In a pub or nightclub, if you're considered too drunk, the bar-tender can decide not to sell you anymore alcohol, for your own good!. Maybe mobile phone networks could learn from the alcohol...
RE:Computing's un-natural language
Blog Comment I didn't check for "Running? With Vista?" either. The option space for exploration just keeps getting bigger...
Embargo? Nobody told me about any embargo
Blog Long-embargo press events are always tricky for the poor PRs to organise. You have to go through the whole business of getting the hacks to sign up without telling them what it's about, then expect...
Government loses 3m learner drivers' details
News A third-party contractor to the Driving Standards Agency has lost three million learner drivers' details stored on a hard disk
RE:Computing's un-natural language
Blog Comment Although the phrase "Running despite Windows" gets only 2 hits in Google, I think it is a closer approximation to the relationship between program and OS. (Half a smiley)
Darling: Greater accountability key to data security
News Alistair Darling has admitted the government needs clearer lines of responsibility for data loss and 'simpler structures' after the HMRC data breach
Canonical releases distributed VCS
News The company behind Ubuntu has released a distributed content-development tool named after Eric Raymond's open-source manifesto
Cars Are For Driving... Computers Are For Life; There Is No...
Talkback Yet again, we're not talking about cars and simple products. Look beyond the brand! We're talking about learning tools, leisure tools, business tools - things that are invading culture more than...
Data-centre worker sabotages California power grid
News An unhappy computer technician has admitted trying to shut down part of California's power grid in an attempt to get back at his boss
Intel gets systematic
Blog Intel has formed a new design and development group for 'SoC enablement'. That's System on Chip – in other words, making processor chips that include all of the other electronics to do a particular...
Environment Agency seeks green IT partner
News The watchdog has posted a tender in an effort to create the most environmentally sustainable government IT contract to date
VoIP lobby group formed over 999 issue
News Google, Intel, Microsoft and Skype have formed a coalition to persuade the European Commission that VoIP providers should not have to provide access to the emergency services
Patient details lost after NHS laptop theft
News At least 950 patients' personal details, as well as scans of their retinas, were on a NHS laptop stolen in Wales
Re: adcomment
Talkback Well, in all fairness, he did use his real name, so at least there's no subterfuge. And we did check, and it really is Mr Ritz of Vonage.
Oil worker shocked by $85k phone bill
Talkback Some of those contracts are like books and the print is so small. Who is really going to sit down and examine them before trying out the phone? It is like reading the EULA of a monopolist OS.
Good education-
Talkback - if you're a primary school pupil. Should help my son's GCSE Computing mocks next year. Come on!! This has been around well over 40 years now. Wasn't it IBM themeselves who introduced it within...
Any browser on any machine
Talkback I know about trashing a new machine! My present one, a Mesh something or other, came with IE and OE. Within a few days there came a notification of an update for IE. I clicked on the appropriate...
Computing's un-natural language
Blog An enduring theme in computer programming is the uncertain role of natural language. On one side, some claim it's bad to have to learn the intricacies of any particular computer language before you...
Opera and Firefox fresh out of the box
Talkback Well, if I were Microsoft I would not want to advertise other peoples wares. Just think, if you were, say, a motor manufacturer and you issued a brochure, it would be about your own cars, wouldn't...
Norwich Union Life fined £1.26m for data loss
News The FSA has fined the financial services company for failing to protect customer data in 2006
The transistor turns 60
Photo From a few small pieces of metal at Bell Labs sprang an entire industry, influencing much of modern life
Welcome to Hafnium, home of chips, bombs and conspiracies
Blog We are moving into one of the two times of year when the heartbeat of IT journalism develops arrhythmia. People are on holiday or moving around the place, thoughts are turning to enjoying or...
FireWire speeds set to quadruple
News A new electrical specification will see the data interfacing standard's speeds boosted from 800Mbps to 3.2Gbps, the trade association behind FireWire has claimed
For the record, how DO you delete I.E. from a Windows machin...
Talkback Just removing the icon from the desktop doesn't count! I'm talking about uninstalling the rendering engine itself so that its code is no longer present on the PC. How do you do that on XP or Vista?
Unbundling vs. OmniBundling
Talkback I'm not sure it's a case of unbundling, more a case of bundling other products to allow user's a greater choice - OmniBundling. Microsoft's products are now ubiquitous in our society and with great...
DRM Flash
Talkback I heard that they would use Adobe's new flash DRM to enable flash video to be downloaded and played offline but with DRM protection so that it couldn't be passed around or given a time limit on how...
Carphone emails fuel iPhone scandal
Blog Ouch. A few weeks ago, BBC's Watchdog programme outed Carphone Warehouse for misselling iPhone insurance - CPW customers complained that they'd been told they had to get store insurance with an...
Internet Explorer/Opera et al.
Talkback I don't share Opera's view that Microsoft should not bundle IE and Outlook Express with their operating system although I have, in the past, suffered mounds of spam, phishing and trojan activity...
Adobe open sources BlazeDS
News The software company is to open source its tool for connecting data sources to flash-based rich internet applications
Ordnance Survey opens map source code
News From January 2008, the OpenSpace project will enable online developers to register for a free feed of Ordnance Survey data with which they can experiment
BBC launches iPlayer service for Macs and Linux
News A streaming version of the online TV on-demand service has been launched for non-Windows platforms, with a download version due in 2008
Celebrating 60 years of transistors
News The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947
Google schmoogle
Talkback So true harpless, Looks like the big 'G' is running out of ideas and starting to reproduce (rip-off) anything that becomes popular or ubiquitous. Their attampt will most probably end up as another...
