Previous DayNo suprise
Talkback Given the number of breaches there's been in the latter half of 2007 alone, NOA's findings are no suprise. From the NHS to HMRC to DVLA. Are there any real I.T people in government departments?
Third of government data systems not up to scratch
News The National Audit Office has said 35 percent of government data systems need strengthening to be resilient enough for purpose
An Open Source Census?
Blog After musing earlier htis week on the difficulty of knowing how much open source software there is, here comes a possible answer. The Open Source Census, launched by enterprise open source...
NetSuite IPO: Shares hit double the forecast price
News Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's CRM offshoot has reaped $161m in its first public auction of shares, reflecting upbeat SaaS and CRM markets
Shadowcrew members sentenced
Blog The BBC has reported that four Britons have been sentenced for their role in a criminal network stealing personal data. I had a very interesting chat with ex-confidence trickster Frank Abagnale...
It's a start
Talkback Streaming is a start but it's not a solution. I've tried to watch 2 or 3 programmes through streaming (because the download versions weren't available for one reason or another) but each time they...
VOIP must support 999
Talkback I agree with the coalition that at the moment the use of VOIP is complementary to "normal" PSTN telephone services. However, at the rate of progress this could change very quickly, consider the...
The lonesome death of data protection
Blog Bob Dylan knew his protest songs. While I'm aware that the number of people who are a) interested in privacy and security issues, and b) Bob Dylan fans, is probably about two or three, what's been...
RE:Computing's un-natural language
Blog Comment That reminds me of a programmer friend who used to build online systems for the Commodore 64 - one of his favourite anecdotes was "The day we invented trees". Always wanted to use that as a title...
November sees record-breaking online sales
News Online spending increased by 65 percent on the same period in 2006, equating to just under £90 per person in the UK
RE:SightSpeed, ooVoo and Skype - the Comparison
Blog Comment Well, Jamie, here's your first comment. I do some work with ooVoo and I'm decidedly not irate. In fact, I'm quite please with what you wrote here. To let you know, both the PC and Mac Beta...
RE:Computing's un-natural language
Blog Comment A minor issue I ran into programming immediatly after reading this post is the issue of plurality and coding. The seasoned programmer learns to love coding standards because you can predict what...
Win a Toshiba e-Studio200s
Competition Day 10 of our Christmas competition brings a Toshiba e-Studio200s all-in-one printer, scanner, copier and fax — a good fit for a small office or home office.
Shrink wrapped grid computing
Blog As we get more and more used to parallel processing and multi-core architectures I’m noticing an encroaching tide of technology threads that are encouraging us to consider High Performance...
Electronic Christmas cards: the curse of our modern age.
Blog Hello. I am receiving a large number of corporate Christmas cards via email - mostly from PR organisations, but by no means exclusively so. This wave of turkey-flavoured spam is wrong and...
2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee
Blog There's not much doubt in the office that the most significant product for business IT this year has been a consumer device which is small, white and personal -- and it's not even from Apple. ...
Veracode tool scans for developer backdoors
News The start-up has updated its SecurityReview tool to scan for backdoors and malicious code introduced during the development process
Auditors criticise EC over technology funding
News The European Court of Auditors has taken the Commission to task over its evaluation of technology research programmes from 1995 to 2013
Mac users left waiting as Intuit update erases data
News An update to Intuit's accountancy software has wiped data from Mac users' hard drives, with affected customers asked to join a waiting list for the solution
4G inches closer after Nokia Siemens tests
News Mobile broadband speeds of up to 173Mbps could become a reality following the first urban environment testing of the 'long-term evolution' of 3G
Early hours of Tuesday?
Talkback I'm in the south and was without connection from Monay evening until the early hours of Wednesday morning not Tuesday!
RE:Audio and Video IM on the Road
Blog Comment Andy, Thanks for the comment (and for taking the time to read). That's very interesting information, about getting HSDPA from AT&T. I suppose this is very dependent on carriers and regions, and I...
RE:Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee
Blog Comment If they did the EEE with a 12 inch screen they would take teh business market apart. Currently you seem to pay a premium for laptops with a 12 inch monitor just because that what corporate execs...
RE:Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?
Blog Comment This situation is even more apparent if you take account of upgrade prices: The price to upgrade from XP home to XP pro: £145 or so. The Vista Business Upgrade which allows you to upgrade from...
Google 'powerless' to stop AdSense theft
News Adverts placed by the search giant on web pages are being hijacked by Trojan software that redirects queries to a malicious host
RE:Audio and Video IM on the Road
Blog Comment J.A. Actually, AT&T supports HSDPA in the USA and I have two accounts (and the bill) to prove it. The data cards from Sierra Wireless and Novatel Wireless work both in the USA and I've found in...
Audio and Video IM on the Road
Blog I've been traveling in Florida for a couple of days now (my home is in Switzerland), and I have been experimenting with audio and video IM in various places and circumstances while traveling. The...
