Previous DayRE:Olympics budget forgets the cost of IT
Blog Comment I was going to say 'unbelievable', but it's not. In any case, £400,000 seems rather short of the mark as well. Where's the accountability for government inefficiency and incompetency? No wonder...
UK trails peers in broadband speed
News Customers in the UK experience slower download speeds and less value for money than broadband users in countries such as Japan
Oracle releases critical patch update
News The database company has released 45 security fixes for numerous holes in its software
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850
Review The quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6850 keeps Intel in the lead for desktop CPU performance, at a price that helps offset the lack of sizable performance gains. New products at the end of the year may...
HP and MIT team up on open-source archiving
News Not-for-profit organisation is set up to support users of DSpace, a community-developed online digital-preservation tool
Aye Well
Talkback I guess you need to be a special kind of zealot to keep trudging on the face of the patently obvious problems inherent in DRM systems like this. You've got to at least give them points for all out...
Video: Property firm invests in centralised IT
Video Richard Snooks, chief information officer for Capital & Regional, explains the evolution of his company's IT strategy
BBC iPlayer anyone ?
Talkback So this is the code that has convinced the BBC that DRM is an absolutely top hole idea and that it simply must be used as the core of their iPlayer product. Ahh come on guys .. Wake up :)
Microsoft EU antitrust ruling
Talkback Nothing to be concerned about, Microsoft has the best judges money can buy.
largely Microsoft business partners
Talkback Looks like stuffing the ballot box may not work for M$ this time. Might be a good time to start paying some bribes, er, I mean using PR.
Google's cookie cut may not be enough for EU
News EU data watchdog has welcomed Google's announcement of a two-year cookie lifespan but says its major concern is server log data use
Ofcom changes rules on number porting
News Switching mobile numbers between operators will soon take only two days, while a proposed database could make the process almost instantaneous
Intel earnings surpass expectations
News Chief executive Paul Otellini's 2006 cost cuts pay off as the company's second-quarter profits rebound compared to last year
No worries
Talkback "Office Open XML (OOXML) failed to gain approval in a vote by a sub-group of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), a standards body influential with the US...
Google launches brandable search for SMEs
News Custom Search Business Edition offers a paid-for, brandable and ad-free alternative to Google's existing in-site search tool
Information delivery in a Web 2.0 world
Comment EMC executive Mark Lewis says the advent of Web 2.0 has flipped the information delivery model upside down
Kiwi car club closes down open source
Blog News comes from down under that the New Zealand AA (the Automobile Association, not Alcoholics Anonymous) has ditched OpenOffice in favour of Microsoft Office. According to the AA's CIO Doug...
Britain and Ireland call for EU data sharing
News UK and Irish governments have agreed to share more intelligence to counter threats such as terrorism, and say they will urge EU states to do the same
AstraZeneca signs IBM outsourcing deal
News Seven-year $1.4bn deal renews and expands on an existing contract between IBM and the pharmaceutical giant
This could help the BBC
Talkback Ironically, this could actually help the BBC, who have been heavily critisized for funding a system out of the TV license that will be available only to a subset of license fee payers. In...
Still no cure for Yahoo's complaint
Analysis Executives offer promises but no real plan to turn the company around in the face of search titan Google's growth
CIOs urged to spur enterprise growth
News Gartner says CIOs need to think like a venture capitalist, predicting the way their company will grow to aid its development
Yahoo profit down on slowed display-ad growth
News Second-quarter revenue meets adjusted expectations in company's first financial results with Jerry Yang as chief executive
