Previous DaySo many reasons
Talkback There are so many reasons why this is a bad idea, but I guess the killer punch is that it will not do what they obviously want it to do. This isn't "It physically won't work", which in point of...
Call me a cynic, but...
Talkback Maybe Microsoft are "interested" because of reports that Yahoo has been in talks about AOL. If so, it's probably Microsoft trying to sabotage anything that Yahoo is doing, or if you like sneakiness...
iPhone heaven/iPhone hell
Blog Steve Jobs owes me nearly two hours of my life back. Or at least he would do if I wasn't so chuffed with the iPhone that finally became mine after a bum-achingly long period propped on stool in an...
Confused Microsoft?
Talkback We were led to believe that the principal reason Microsoft wanted Yahoo was for their search technology, well, AOL doesn't have any search technology, they get their search results from Google, so...
Microsoft in talks over AOL merger
News Redmond is pushing ahead in discussions with Time Warner over a possible merger with AOL's web businesses, according to The Wall Street Journal
MoD loses 87 USB devices holding classified data
News The Ministry of Defence says the data-storage devices were lost or stolen between 2004 and June 2008
Leeds Council agrees deal with Microsoft
News Microsoft has been chosen by Leeds City Council as its primary IT supplier for the next five years
Connecting for Health spends well below budget
News The NHS organisation responsible for the National Programme for IT spent a third of a billion pounds less than planned during 2007-08
RE:The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment Hey David Only apple would hold this control so tightly. I have seen a good use of AIM to send text messages http://db.tidbits.com/article/9690 And yes how annoying is it to have two computers and...
Admission and Lesson - Don't Overcomplicate Linux!
Blog This is the kind of thing I don't particularly enjoy writing, but as I have been blogging about learning Linux, and I've tried to approach as an "ordinary PC user" would, I think it's important to...
The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog I'd love to say that the quality of Apps on the Apple App store is so superior to those made for jailbroken iPhones that no one would bother jailbreaking anymore. However, this is definitely not...
Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
News The Linux creator has labelled creators of the OpenBSD operating system 'masturbating monkeys', as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centred behaviour in the IT security industry
Cabinet Office heads government 'green' IT drive
News Government departments have been asked to implement 18 steps aimed at making their ICT carbon-neutral within four years
Schneier research team cracks TrueCrypt
News Security expert Bruce Schneier says standard software such as Vista interferes with deniable file systems, designed to hide data on users' systems
BT's cheeky letter to Tiscali customers
Blog According to ISPReview, Tiscali is considering legal action over a letter BT sent to some of its customers. Click on the link and you'll see why. Tiscali's future is, of course, the focus of...
Gartner reports continued growth in PC sales
News Year-on-year growth has been strong in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but the US shows minimal growth in PC shipments
Why not start by eliminating the known bad guys?
Talkback We all get spam and malware emails which waste time and clutter up the communications network. There are horrendous websites condoning and encouraging suicide, giving instructions on how to murder...
Copper - what Copper?
Talkback Speculating about replacing copper local loops with fibre or running the 2 media infrastructures in parallel is somewhat 'moot' for some subscribers in the UK. Surely I'm not alone in still being...
Whats beyond your Windows?
Blog With Windows XP now officially into it's end-of-life phase, and Vista waiting in the OEM wings, BitSmith has been road testing some alternatives... The vast majority of road users are drivers...
yet another way to put our personal information at risk
Talkback This government appears to be developing a key area of expertise, namely drawing up plans to put its citizens' personal data at risk. I fully accept that there needs to be a mechanism for the...
ASUS Eee PC 1000
Review The Eee PC 1000 is a fabulous machine. It precariously straddles the line between netbook and ultraportable, but it's well equipped, well designed and great for anyone requiring a highly portable...
If..
Talkback a bill for £31,500 can be negotiated down to £230, it does suggest that there is a fairly substantial mark-up somewhere along the way.
Intel's cache problems, what they mean and how to solve them
Blog If you want to get really intimate with hardware, there's nothing like low-level, high-performance coding to remove all barriers between your mind and the silicon. One result, aside from the...
Defra to scrap its desktops and handhelds
News The Whitehall department hopes to cut power bills and CO2 emissions by ditching desktop and handheld computers in favour of a one-laptop-per-worker policy
Microsoft opens up Live Mesh
News The service, which lets people share data among multiple Windows computers as well as over the web, is now open to anyone who has a Windows Live ID
GSMA warns against text-roaming price caps
News The mobile-operator industry body has dismissed EC proposals to create a single market for mobile text services in Europe, saying regulation could stifle competition
eBay sees 22 percent jump in profits
News The web auctioneer has reported a boost in profits resulting from an increase in item listings and sales growth at the company's PayPal division
Apple OS continues to gain market share
News The latest PC shipment numbers show Apple gaining at least another percentage point in US market share
Microsoft faces legal action over Silverlight
News Gotuit Media is suing the software giant over the use of video metadata with the Flash rival, which has a featured role in next month's Olympics coverage
RE:People don’t know
Blog Comment I work part time for one of the world's largest home improvement companies and we used to have UNIX on our POS, and it ran flawlessly. They switched to windoze 2000 and now it is a piece of junk....
RE:Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
Blog Comment The manual goes through a fairly extensive description of all of the various options but I haven't tried all of them. The bootable USB flash option works well. I gave the damnsmalllinux.org URL...
