Previous DayIs Virtual Studying Progress?
Blog A postgraduate degree which allows students to develop a professional IT qualification without getting off their butts has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Whatever next, jobs you don’t...
Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £400-ish
Blog Briefing time! Intel is telling us about its solid-state drives. There are two types of SSD, the multi-level cell NAND flash and the single-level cell NAND flash. Multi-level cell stores more bits...
Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help
Blog Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com If you are worth your weight in code, you know that the “hot spot” this month was the annual...
Tigers to spring on 'anti-competitive' Microsoft?
Blog Organisations in Taiwan and China seem to be tensing their muscles to spring onto Microsoft and go for the software giant's throat -- metaphorically of course. The China Post reported on...
Dell and Lenovo netbooks ready to land
Blog So, how's the netbook thing going for you? Personally I'm yet to be convinced I really want one – I've played around with a couple of Asus Eees and haven't quite figured out what I'd need a netbook...
Microsoft relaxes restrictions on virtualisation
News The company will allow organisations to move servers as they wish without penalty as it eases up the rules on server licensing
Craig Barrett's love life hits IDF
Blog As I type, we're half an hour into IDF proper. Pat Gelsinger, patron saint of IDF, has called chairman Craig Barrett a wally – well, Waldo, after the American version of the stripy-jumpered...
Android security team appeals to bug hunters
News The security team for Google's nascent open-source mobile platform, Android, has attempted to raise its profile with the security community
Dell extends warranties after GPU fault
News The company has announced a limited international warranty extension of one year, after Nvidia admitted flaws in some of its graphics-processing units
Lenovo ThinkPad X200
Review It lacks some basic features such as a touchpad and an optical drive, but the 12.1in. ThinkPad X200 offers strong performance and the longest battery life we've seen. With a variety of connectivity...
Exam site pulls MS certification questions
Blog A site that proudly and explicitly sells "real exam questions" for various IT certification exams has apparently been nailed by Microsoft for selling, er, real exam questions. Pass4Sure still...
Keeping innovation alive at Microsoft
Q&A Hsiao-Wuen Hon, head of Microsoft's research lab in Beijing, explains why he believes researchers should be given the freedom and opportunity to explore new ideas
Thoughts On Windows Driver Updates
Blog I've been dealing recently with the rather messy situation involving device driver updates for Windows. The problem is this. You buy a nice shiny new computer, perhaps even a laptop like I did....
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News The only surprise, says an open-source analyst, is that Ubuntu-sponsor Canonical has taken until now to join the foundation
Seems to be the way the world has gone.
Talkback The standard is flawed and incomplete but the only appeals that can be made are about the ancillaries such as the voting process, wrong color paint on the ceiling at the meeting when the decision...
Apple extends MobileMe accounts to appease users
News User accounts will be extended by 60 days for free, in addition to a previous 30-day extension, in recompense for the problematic rollout of MobileMe
Yahoo Buzz is opened to the public
News The company has finally opened up its Digg-like site, having kept the service restricted while it worked out bugs and refined the product
Microsoft opens up Live Mesh to more countries
News The company says that people in Canada, India and Ireland can now take part in the file-synchronisation service without an invitation
MySpace, Facebook tackle security issues
News MySpace is working to close a hole that lets strangers read what friends write on members' private pages, while Facebook is investigating issues with new apps
Gartner forecasts growth in IT spending for 2008
News Global IT spending will rise eight percent on last year, to £1.8tn, the analyst house has predicted
Get with the zooming program
Blog Hands up who didn’t read the spec properly :*). Foolish, schoolbory error. I have been working on a job and the design spec says “Assume the text size is fixed [my emphasis] in...
Google tests ads on YouTube mobile site
News Viewers of YouTube on mobile devices in Japan and the US may see adverts as the search company seeks to boost revenue from the video site
HyperTransport gets faster
News A new specification for the communications bus, used in AMD's multicore chips, should give it a speed boost
Symantec snaps up PC Tools
News With the purchase of the Australian security vendor, Symantec hopes to expand its reach in emerging regional markets
Microsoft: Windows 7 for servers to be minor release
News The company says the server version of Windows 7 will bear the name Windows Server 2008 R2, and will not be a major release
IBM unveils Green Sigma consulting service
News The consulting practice aims to reduce energy and water usage at businesses via networked sensors and data-analysis software
Google releases Android SDK beta
News With version 0.9 of the software-development kit, programmers get better compatibility with real Android phones, due next quarter, but no Bluetooth interface
IDF Fall 2008 - Day Zero. Health, wealth and remote controls.
Blog Day 0 of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, and a saki-induced hangover swiftly dissipates as I stride into the cool morning air with two laptops, a wireless router and a sense of purpose....
We Need Some Perspective
Blog OK...I want to sound off about this file sharing business. Firstly I would like to say, that it's not something that I have ever chosen or wanted to do. I'm happy buying CDs of the specialist...
RE:NHS to buy computers from Dixons
Blog Comment Hang on, so why dixons as well ? I hope that the ones being supplied by the manafacture direct will be free from all the trialware. I imagine the deal with dixons would involve managers being...
