Previous DayRE:MacBook Air conditioning may not be so cool
Blog Comment lol, thanks Rupert! Actually i think Apple does the rest of us a favour by setting the standard: we all admire Apple's aesthetics and innovation, thus LG, SamSung, HTC, etc are pushed to come up...
time to leave 123-reg/pipex then?
Talkback After the recent DNS fiasco with 123-reg, the domains and hosting section of pipex it may not be surprising they are trying to flog it off. sounds like its held together with a shoestring budget...
Storm worm anniversary brings fresh variants
Roundup A year after the first Storm worm attack, security companies have warned of more variants being sent out in spam
Open-source community site goes open source
News Ohloh, the community site for developers, is making its tools open source, including the website itself
Hundreds of sites infected with dynamic malware
News Around 230 UK websites have been compromised as a result of a mysterious infection afflicting web-hosting servers, warns security company ScanSafe
Are you on the right tariff?
Blog A fairly disturbing report suggests that Britons are wasting £8.45bn per year through being on the wrong mobile tariffs. From the release: The study by price comparison website...
NHS loses patients' data on USB drive
News Stockport Primary Care Trust has admitted the loss of 4,000 medical and personal details in the latest instance of data loss by the NHS
One pound in six now spent online
News The amount of money spent on internet shopping last year was up 54 percent from 2006, with online sales reaching £15.2bn in the final quarter
Should more web sites be able to integrate with my diary?
Blog When I want to know what time re-runs of Ray Mears’ Extreme Bushcraft are showing on the ‘Dave’ channel I tend to use tvguide.co.uk - and one of the features of I’ve increasingly started to...
W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0
News Supporters of the Sparql query language say using the web without it would be like 'trying to use a relational database without SQL'
I can't believe I'm saying this, but give them a break
Talkback OK, they screwed up BIG time. However, if I was one of those affected by the HMRC data leak, I would want to know and for the calculator challenged the letters actually cost 11.11 pence each, which...
Wow, that's a lot of numbers to be tossing about
Talkback I'm sitting here trying to figure out what all those numbers mean, and what "uptake" means as compared to "using or evaluating", or being "in the process of moving to Vista". Hmmm, 48% are "using...
Mobile email backlash?
Blog Speaking to other users of mobile email devices that have been provided by their employer, I have come across more than a few cases of users who have decided to disable the mobile email...
Outsourcing mega-deals aid market recovery
News A spate of mega-deals and strong growth among Indian companies helped the outsourcing market bounce back after a poor start last year
Local gov't online services help save planet
News Research has revealed that using online council services contributes to significant cuts in CO2 emissions
Education and M$
Talkback This is completely outrageous! They think they will come up with new ideas? Here's a new idea for free, Mr. Beswick: schools don't pay for what they don't use.
Valley Boy
Review Venture capitalist Tom Perkins recounts stories from his eventful life, which includes several spells on HP's board, funding companies like Netscape and Google, marriage to a best-selling novelist,...
Google aims to redefine philanthropy
Analysis The company has touted its plans to bestow money on worthy causes, but how does it compare with other tech-sector efforts?
London leads south-east for wage hikes
News Tech professionals' salaries in the capital rose 4.3 percent over the last 12 months, compared to 3.4 percent in the south-east
Green IT may cut costs by 20 percent
News A Butler Group report suggests sustainability and green IT practices can give companies a competitive advantage
FalconStor Continuous Data Protection Virtual Appliance
Review This is a powerful system that enables server administrators to very quickly restore data that may have been lost due to viruses, user error or hardware failure.
T-Mobile pushes femtocells
News The company will begin UK trials of the tech in the second quarter of this year, potentially making a limited deployment before 2009
HMRC letters of apology cost £2.25m
News Opposition MPs have attacked the cost of the letters sent to those affected by the loss of 25 million child-benefit records
