Previous DayRequirements gap: real or perceived?
Blog I used to be involved with the Australian media tech scene and it’s an interesting place from a software perspective. Being as geographically and temporally separated as they are, the country is a...
Win an Orange SPV E650
Competition Orange's SPV E650 has a slide-out Qwerty keypad, making it a full-featured Windows Mobile 6 smartphone in a standard handset. Five lucky winners will get one in Day 9 of our Christmas competition.
How many will it take ?!
Talkback How many times do we have to hear of some Government department or agency losing track of our private data, then listen to them bleating and ringing their hands about how this never happens and...
What you suggest would stop people writing software, period!
Talkback Software is ideas building on ideas, and I defy you to write a piece of complex software that doesn't use a single idea that someone else somewhere has already had.
Mac OS: More critical flaws than Windows in 2007
News Mac OS X had 234 highly critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007 but Vista and XP combined had 23, according to US research
Arise Sir Ben
Blog BT's Dutch supremo, Ben Verwaayen, has been awarded an honorary KBE by the Queen, thus joining other non-British recipients such as Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates and George Bush Sr. "This is a...
Gmail: Past, future, and present
Video Google's Gmail product manager discusses the popular app's history and future, as well as the rebuild of the JavaScript engine and the company's approach to users' data
Virgin broadband back after outage
News The cable operator's broadband and video-on-demand services fell victim to an 'error' during routine maintenance, the company has claimed
XP SP3 release candidate, er, released
Blog Season's greetings from Microsoft, in the shape of a release candidate for Windows XP service pack 3. Available to download here, this is the first non-beta version of XP SP3 released to the...
Torrential abuse
Blog A pal from the shady world of ISP operations pops up in IM. "Heard about Axxo?" he says. "No..." I say. "He's big in the bittorrrent community", says my friend. "Been pushing out really...
Intel Capital reveals prime tech for investment
News The chipmaker's investment arm has highlighted the five hottest technologies venture capitalists are looking to invest in
MPs condemn government's data failures
News As the recent loss of learner-driver information is labelled 'mind-bending', MPs call for an urgent culture change in the government's handling of private data
NCC to impose fines on operators over poor service
Blog The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is to start imposing fines on telecommunications operators for poor services delivery. Mr Ernest Ndukwe, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission...
patenting software is necessary
Talkback I understand why you'd say 'patenting software is like patenting a languange' because; to write the software you must use an existing programming environment. However, conditions for a patent are...
Invoking them would probably hurt their business
Talkback Richard, I didn't realise they actually had these policies in place. perhaps the reason they don't invoke them is that it would hurt their profits. To me and you, it's social responsibility but to...
