Previous DayConfidentiality, Integrity and Availability
Blog Anyone coming into the world of security today learns this straight off the bat: CIA. Confidentiality, privacy of information, is required to keep information secret. Integrity of information is...
E-skills aims to boost IT degree numbers
News An initiative called 'Revitalise IT' will aim to encourage more young people into the UK technology industry
Apple iPhone buzz hits the UK
Photo Chief executive Steve Jobs put in an appearance at the UK's iPhone launch in London, promising a faster 3G version of the device next year
IT aid for Ghana's flood victims
Blog More news of the sterling work done by telecoms aid agency Telecoms Sans Frontieres. The latest venture from the IT equivalent of International Rescue, involved despatching a crew of telecoms...
More time to enter San Francisco contest
Blog Just a quick note to let members know that we've extended the deadline on our competition to win a trip to San Francisco for the RSA Conference 2008 in April or a full pass to RSA Europe 2007 in...
HP backs African recycling research
News The technology vendor is working with partners on improving the safety and environmental impact of electronic waste-recycling in the region
Intel Developer Forum - Wimax, HD laptop commitments
Blog Paul Otellini has moved onto Wimax, which he says is an essential component of the next wave of ultramobile. Year ago, trials moving from fixed wimax to mobile. Ten trials ging on in 06. Now...
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML
Blog Search and advertising giant Google has welcomed the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376) at this time. A Google Code blog...
World's first working 32nm device at IDF, Nehalem design finished.
Blog Paul Otellini just showed off "the world's first working 32nm device" - a wafer containing test memory circuits, 291 megabit RAM chips with 1.9 billion transistor per die. Expect 32 nm parts in...
Microsoft's EP(UK) patents
Talkback I agree that the area of software patents is difficult. The article is, however, misleading not merely because of the inaccurate count of patents, but because it also quotes a "leading lawyer" as...
Microsoft ruling: Court's decision
Video The Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance overturns the appeal of the software giant and orders it to pay a €497m fine originally levied by the EU executive in 2004
EC reacts to Microsoft ruling
Video Competition commissioner Neelie Kroes expects to see a drop in Microsoft's market share if the company complies with the court order
RE:Boot startup times into touch
Blog Comment I am not a mac fanboy but have to say that leaving my macbook on standby doesn't seem to flatten the battery nearly as quick as my other laptop (Acer) running Vista. This is something I think it...
Deloitte: People are still weakest security link
News Financial institutions should do more to tackle the human factor in security breaches, according to consultancy firm Deloitte
RE:Spiralling security solutions
Blog Comment I hear you Adrian (reading the blog..no scanning honest). Security cannot continue to grow with the complex defensive paradigm. Deperimeterisation is one idea being pimped by the jericho forum but...
Intel Developer Forum - the show begins
Blog It's Day 0 at the Intel Developer Forum, the traditional pre-show press briefing. I got in to San Francisco on Saturday to find that the Marriott, the hotel where the press is usually billeted, is...
HTC TyTN II
Review Few new Windows Mobile handhelds add significantly to the genre, but HTC has managed that with the TyTN II and its tilting screen. It also includes an up-to-the-minute set of features and wins a...
OKI B2520 MFP
Review The OKI B2520 MFP is a low-cost multifunction that ultimately fails for a variety of reasons, from its poorly implemented control panel to slow, low-quality output. There are better laser...
Apple launches iPhone in the UK
News The much-hyped mobile device will be available to buy from 9 November, through Apple, O2 and The Carphone Warehouse
It helps to have the drivers' source code available to study...
Talkback The goal for all Linux drivers is (theoretically) to become merged with the main kernel sources, at which point their code is subjected to exactly the same scrutiny as the rest of the kernel's...
Researcher: Operating systems inherently flawed
News The architecture of the most common operating systems is a threat to corporate security, Joanna Rutkowska has warned
Apple reveals iPhone details
Blog Apple has revealed further details of the iPhone at its press conference this morning. The carrier will, as expected, be O2, even if it will prove expensive for O2, with up to 40percent of revenue...
How can i get my site to be more of a 2.0 site?
Forum The easiest way add "Web 2.0" features to your site is to find a web host that provides Fantastico, a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications. Any hosting...
OpenMoko and Trolltech team up on mobile Linux
News Trolltech's Qtopia application-development platform has been successfully ported onto the OpenMoko Neo1973 handset
Have you really read up on the OLPC?
Talkback These machines will not need the ecosystem you talk of. They'll have a browser - thus they can do pretty much anything. The web will be their ecosystem and the most important thing the OLPCs will...
Mozilla seeks Firefox's success for Thunderbird
News The Mozilla Foundation is funding a subsidiary to improve the open-source email software, but Microsoft is unconcerned
AMD launches tri-core processor
News A week after unveiling its Phenom quad-core processor, AMD has introduced a tri-core variant aimed primarily at consumer desktops
