Previous DayVista SP1 - No Go for Me at the Moment
Blog I have been waiting anxiously for the public release of Vista SP1. I had reloaded the Vista disk for my Lifebook S6510 a week or so ago, so that I would have a fresh load ready for update. Today...
Brown pumps funds into espionage tech
News The information security industry will get more funding to develop spying technologies, Gordon Brown has said
IE8 has been rushed
Talkback Great review, personally i think IE8 is being rushed maybe for the reasons pointed out, it's only been a year since IE7 came out. they should take more time to work on those borrowed features!
Adobe moves to allay video security fears
News The company has released content-protection server software to guard against the misuse of video created for its Flash technology
HP tries to squeeze everybody out
Blog Is HP getting too big for the footware? HP proudly boasts now of being the largest IT company in the world and that thrilling breakthrough as inspired HP execs to come out with bigger and more...
Fujitsu, blades and virtualisation
Blog Fujitsu Siemens has launched a BladeEngine for its PRIMERGY Blade Servers that offers virtualisation features along with unified network communications and a combined 10 Gbit Ethernet and iSCSI SAN...
Irish banks already in phishing firing line for 3 years
Talkback RSA's apparent claim that Ireland's banks have somehow evaded the scourge of phishing attacks until the last few weeks is demonstrably ill-informed. Envisional and other Internet intelligence...
Microsoft on Hyper-V: 'We're virtually there'
News The company has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage for its hypervisor-based virtualisation software
Novell chief: We helped Microsoft be more open
Q&A The 2006 deal between the two companies played a key part in Microsoft's decision to share more of its information with the rest of the industry, says Ron Hovsepian
ooVoo News - Mac Available and Free Calls Extended
Blog Here's some very good news. The Mac version of ooVoo is now available for download from their web page (www.oovoo.com/download)! I don't have a Mac, unfortunately, so I can't try it out myself,...
Sony Ericsson issues stark profit warning
News The company has issued the warning a month ahead of its first-quarter results, blaming a 'challenging' mid-to-high-end handset market in Europe
F-Secure warns of archive protocol danger
News The security vendor has warned of multiple critical vulnerabilities that affect its products as well as various iterations of Linux-archiving software
The log files already have the solution
Talkback Having examined a number of phishing pages, they pretty much all refer to the original page graphics on the genuine bank web site. Presumably therefore, the banks web site will have logs of the...
Schmidt: Google may share user info with US gov't
Video Chief executive Eric Schmidt reveals the US government has made 'requests' for information on Google users and the company would comply if the requests were legal
Gartner: iPhone will soon be ready for business
News Nine months after warning businesses to avoid Apple's handset, Gartner has decided new functionality will soon make the iPhone suitable for enterprise use
Portable memory makes the 'inflation basket'
Blog Every year the "inflation basket" - the theoretical shopping basket of standard products that can be used to measure inflation - gains and loses a few items. It's a good indicator of where we're...
RE:Do developers need fast typing skills?
Blog Comment When I was in High School my father made me take a typing class. I hated it then, but I have been very appreciative ever since. I don't think fast typing is a must, but it is almost always a big...
The Expo had very little IT focus
Talkback Writing as someone who attended the expo, and has discussed it with others on various forums related to Australian migration, I have to say that there was a distinct *lack* of IT focus there. In...
Do developers need fast typing skills?
Blog I kind of get the feeling I'm going to get some flack for this - but as a matter of comparatively small importance, it does seem to have reared its head a few times. The question of speedy typing...
One of the scariest things I've seen
Blog Not much to say here - just watch this DARPA-funded robot pack-dog in action (particularly the near-slippage in the middle of the video) and think forward a couple decades. We're doomed, I tells...
SOA and RFID top CIOs' wishlists
News Service-oriented architecture is the number-one must-have technology for CIOs according to a survey carried out by IDC, with RFID and VoIP adoption close behind
Western economies warned of 'serious' skills crisis
News One of India's most influential IT leaders has claimed poor maths education is one of the main reasons for a shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries
Banks under fire as phishing attacks accelerate
News A recent report says the fraud attacks on banking brands and their customers worldwide have risen steadily over the past six months
For Arthur C Clarke: out of the cradle, endlessly orbiting.
Blog I can't say how moved I am at Arthur Clarke's death. Science fiction caught me young, especially the sort which holds a mirror to our faces and frames us in the stars above. Arthur Clarke was...
