Previous DayIBM earmarks $100m for mobile research
News The tech giant will invest £61m over the next five years in a drive to develop new mobile services for the enterprise and emerging markets
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News The Kantara Initiative, which aims to harmonise ID management technologies and standards, has attracted the backing of companies such as BT, CA, Intel, Novell, Oracle, PayPal and Sun
Google's App Sync breaks Windows search
News Google will update it App Sync software to work with Microsoft Outlook plug-ins
IBM launches new acronym
Blog IBM has announced the release of a new acronym. FOAK, which stands for "first-of-a-kind", was launched on Wednesday. According to a statement from Big Blue, "IBM's FOAK program pairs IBM's...
Win an HP RDX backup system
Competition HP's StorageWorks RDX Removable Disk Backup System is a data protection product that's a good fit for small businesses. ZDNet UK has one, plus a spare cartridge, up for grabs
Apple 3G S fetishists - your number is up
Blog With the release of Apple iPhone OS 3.0, a widespread affliction has become a true, World Health Organisation recognised pandemic. I speak, of course, of the almost eroticised fetishisation that...
When supercomputing benchmarks fail to add up
Comment Using benchmarks to choose a supercomputer is more complex than just picking the fastest system, says Andrew Jones
Apple stamps out 46 iPhone bugs
News Many of the long list of flaws in iPhone and iPod could have let an attacker run code on the handset, and some have been rated 'highly critical'
RE:Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Policies Coming
Blog Comment Moley, I've missed you! Thanks for the comment. Every time I have mentioned the lack of an XP-Win7 upgrade, there have been various replies about how "difficult" it would be, ensuring a...
BT moves infrastructure into the cloud
News BT Global Services is about to move its Virtual Data Centre service out of the trial stage, in a move analysts say will help BT become a services-centric company
Will new browsers really upgrade the web?
Analysis It could take a while for the reality of better browsing to catch up with the vision
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News The Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip
Experts: Gov't web-monitoring plan is unworkable
News Experts from the London School of Economics say a government plan to record traffic details of all UK web communications is 'an impossibility'
Ad tech developed that can tell men from women
News Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has produced a system that uses sophisticated algorithms to differentiate facial features
Funded ICT training take-up falls by half
News A government review finds 50 percent fewer adults are using funded ICT training than five years ago
Apple highlights Snow Leopard features
Video Apple's senior vice president of Mac OS engineering, Craig Federighi, demos the Snow Leopard version of the operating system
2012 Olympics may see Tube mobile coverage
News Lord Carter's Digital Britain report has reignited plans for mobile coverage on the London Underground, months after plans were shelved indefinitely
Opera Unite: screenshots
Photo Check out Opera's new platform for turning your computer into a server for sharing photos, files, notes, music and web sites.
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The W3C is seeking prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium's work to standardise web apps
Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Policies Coming
Blog Over at the ZDNet U.S. site, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has posted about what will apparently be a new low in bizarre downgrade/upgrade policies involving Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. It...
OS 3.0 notes and consequences
Talkback David, "iPhone 3.0 was first shown off to developers in March. The update is free for iPhone users, and will be uploaded to iTunes early on Wednesday evening." I think basically it was more than...
RE:Gov't to crack down on file-sharers
Blog Comment Is the government planning on arresting or issuing fines for "illegal file-sharers?" 23 million pounds does not sound like enough money to buy the monitoring equipment necessary to "wiretap" all...
RE:Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's usability wounds
Blog Comment Thank You Mr Shuttleworth and the guys at Canonical!!! That is EXACTLY the issue that needs to be addressed in Linux. The user doesn't give a hoot for what's under the desktop, he wants the desktop...
RE:Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog Comment ator1940 said: "This is inherently wrong, forcing someone to pay for something they don't want, and are not going to use. It is the same as stealing money from a customer at gunpoint." Many...
