Previous DayShuttleworth distances himself from Microsoft
News Canonical CEO says patent agreements create a 'false sense of security' and do not protect users from the threat of Microsoft lawsuits
Photos: Microsoft's rivals in touchscreen tech
Photo Despite the attention which its Surface tabletop PC received, the software giant isn't the only company interested in multitouch technology
Dell demands secrecy over its sales tactics
Blog Dell has been forced into a rather amusing backtrack after a blogger released details of its sales tactics. The blogger, who claims to be a former Dell sales manager, gave readers no fewer than...
IEEE infighting may derail Ethernet development
News Disagreements over the speed of next-generation Ethernet threaten to dissolve the standards body's Higher Speed Study Group
More madness from north of the border
Blog What IS going on in Scotland? According to the Sunday Herald, the Scottish Qualifications Authority -- which sets the curricula for non-degree further education -- is seriously considering making...
Sony VAIO VGN-UX1XN
Review Sony's ultra-mobile VAIO is a marvel of engineering, squeezing a fully fledged notebook's functionality into a (chunky) handheld form factor. But there are many ergonomic compromises within this...
Novell updates Suse virtualisation
News First service pack tweaks Suse Linux Enterprise 10 features, while virtualisation bundle promises wider support
Google boss thinks Paris is hot!
Blog Eric Schmidt may have suffered a sense of humour failure last year when a reporter from ZDNet UK’s sister site CNET News.com Google’d some supposedly personal information about him and published...
Stiff talking-to
Blog I thought it was a joke at at first, the sort of thing PRs do when they're being scurrilously witty. The invitation card shaped like a gravestone with a big lily on top - just that little too close...
Want to get personal with Google?
Blog Google has hinted that it may get around some of the privacy restrictions imposed by the EC by allowing user to explicitly request that that their personal information be held longer than the 18...
Photos: IBM serves up Wimbledon in Second Life
Photo Company plans to recreate the tennis tournament virtually, point by point and shot by shot
Competition hots up between 3G and Wi-Fi
News With Vodafone cutting its 3G mobile broadband tariffs, analysts suggest the technology is becoming more competitive with Wi-Fi
YouTube admits video posting is "clumsy"
Blog YouTube founder Steven Chen has admitted at a Google press event in Paris on Tuesday that the video sharing site has a lot more work to do when it comes to make its service usable. Talking...
YouTube goes international (apart from Germany)
Blog Google owned video sharing site Youtube has announced that is launching localised versions of its site in nine counties as part of a wider international roll-out. Launched on Tuesday at an event...
Government urged to cut consultancy costs
News Public Accounts Committee has criticised the government for spending nearly £3bn on external consultants in areas such as IT
Google's first and last euro press day?
Blog You'd like to think that the king of the Internet could handle a little thing like Wi-Fi and electricity but we have been without wireless for most of the morning and power has been and on and off!...
The perfect UI tester: a man with short-term memory loss?
Blog We have an intriguing post from ZDNet.co.uk member kisunssi who claims to have no short-term memory. He goes on to note that he sees this as a USP, and is wondering whether someone with no...
Is Yang right to run Yahoo?
Analysis Company co-founder is likely to be an 'interim' chief executive with president Sue Decker at his side, observers say
Cisco accredits BT to sell conferencing kit
News Certification sees BT become one of only three firms selling the high-end video-conferencing package in the UK but customers remain scarce
Video: Law firm gets to grips with convergence
Video Norton Rose has taken advantage of an office move to consolidate its IT and reap the benefits of a single IP network
IPTV trundles on
News Microsoft is upgrading IPTV software for service providers but flashy, consumer-oriented features will take more time to roll out
Linux Foundation tackles power concerns
News The organisation, formed by a merger between the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group, plans to address power management in open-source software
Top 10 Richard Granger quotes
News With the head of the National Programme for IT preparing to step down later this year, we collect together his 10 best quotes
HTTP beats P2P in North America
Blog Some very interesting stats have been released by a company called Ellecoya, who optimise broadband networks for operators. They relate to North America, but I can't imagine the picture would be...
Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
Analysis As Granger steps down after a turbulent five years in charge of the £12.4bn project, how will his contribution be viewed?
New HP service desk marks 'decision point'
News Enterprise customers in the Asia-Pacific region may be forced to rethink their commitment to HP as the company revises its service desk product strategy
Yahoo CEO Semel steps down
News One week after shareholders blast him over company's financial performance, Terry Semel is replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang
Source code not patentable?
Talkback A nice can of worms this opens up: "the court attempted to draw a line: it ruled that "software in the abstract" is not patentable when it is simply a set of instructions detached from any medium —...
