Previous DayWhen is a new operating system not a new operating system?
Blog Reading Steve Ballmer's comments about Google Chrome OS, I'm struck by how odd some of his ideas are. Like what constitutes a brand new operating system, for instance. He also appears to think One...
Researchers get ready to learn from Robo-Einstein
Photo Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have brought Albert Einstein to life in the form of a robot
Symbian admits Trojan slip-up
News The group has promised to improve its digital-signing processes after it signed a piece of mobile malware with botnet features
Lloyds to chop hundreds of IT jobs
News Hundreds of IT positions will be cut at four sites in the UK as the bank continues to make job cuts in a cost-cutting and rationalisation effort
Geekender Gallery: Top 10 Tech Tunes
Photo For your weekend listening pleasure: ten songs about technology. Enjoy!
Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing
News The lawsuit alleges that two companies used its Live Messenger service to poach users' contacts for spam and to send them to phishing sites
Music industry claims cut from Pirate Bay sale
News The sale of the notorious file-sharing site may trigger court action to recover costs
Email bigger strain on mobile networks than P2P
News Bell Labs has found that while web surfing and P2P account for much of the data volume in 3G networks, mobile email is a bigger resource hog
Oracle hikes some prices by up to 40pc
Blog Oracle has increased the US prices of some of its licences by up to 40 percent, according to reports. The hikes affect a database configuration management pack and processor licences for...
Does VMware's VMsafe fully protect your datacentre?
Blog Back in the bad old days when you deployed one app per server, you might have been a bit peevish about the idea that malware could start spraying itself around your data centre. Now we're all...
Lords call for parliament to get more online
News Parliament should make more use of the internet to communicate what it does to the public, according to a House of Lords committee
McCartney on Broadway!
Blog Our parent company CBS has put out some web video of Paul McCartney's post-Letterman Show gig outside the Broadway theatre where the Beatles first performed back in 1964. Of course, Macca is no...
Nokia sales and profits drop in Q2
News The handset maker has taken a hit and continues its belt-tightening, but its chief executive has said that the industry-wide slump may be hitting bottom
How openness unlocks the web's power
Comment Accessibility and open standards have helped build the web and remain central to its development, says Bruce Lawson
Green Government ICT strategy- what strategy?
Blog Although the Green IT agenda seems to have left global centre stage for the time being (economic downturn etc), this initiative looks to have fallen foul of lack of awareness. I'm talking about...
Ten extensions that add Firefox power
Comment Firefox may be good, but there are numerous extensions to make even better, says Jack Wallen
Google has 'very good quarter' as revenue rises
News The serach giant saw revenue rise three percent to top $4bn, as online ad spending in certain areas recovered amid an economy looking for signs of recovery
Common Sense Tips For Twitter Users!
Blog Twitter has become a worldwide social media and networking tool since it started 2006, if you have been living in a cave for the past 3 years have a peek here. The problem is, that with so many...
Does TwitterGate point towards bigger Cloud security issues?
Blog Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’ Google Apps account getting hacked has got a lot of coverage this week. And it’s reaised a lot of questions about just how secure The Cloud, hosted business...
Mozilla plugs security hole with Firefox 3.5.1
News The first patch to the new open-source browser fixes a critical security vulnerability and makes some other adjustments
BT brings call-centre jobs from India back to UK
News The telco is cutting its call-centre workforce in India by 4,000 as it returns some of the work to the UK
BMC management tool rides Amazon cloud
News The new BSM platform aims to let companies manage resources from internal datacentres and Amazon's EC2 cloud services via a single console
RE:It Just Works: a happy tale of Linux and printers
Blog Comment In cases where Linux doesn't recognize the specific printer model, I have had quite a bit of success by simply choosing "PCL 5" or "Post Script". It often overlooks or omits things like optional...
