Previous DayIPv6 and IPv4 - big trouble coming, and soon
Blog You'll know that most of the Internet runs on IP version 4, the first cut of the Internet Protocol to see widespread use. It was standardised in 1981; for the past twenty five years or so, it's...
Finding your way with Chinese GPS
Blog Nature reports today that the Chinese authorities are cracking down on foreign researchers doing environmental monitoring in China. In short - you do it with permission, with a Chinese partner and...
Exactly my point
Talkback As a graduate you are unlikely to get a job as a programmer unless you can demonstrate some real world experience and that is hard to get in a commercial environment. Learning Microsoft's ide is...
IBM hopes to use DNA to build chips
News The company's research uses DNA molecules to arrange carbon nanotubes into a grid that might function as a data-storage device
Security scholarships up for grabs
Blog Security training organisation (ISC)2 has announced that it has eight scholarships to give to post-grads involved in information security research. One-year scholarships of up to £6,250 each...
Outrageous
Talkback I work with many small businesses and understand that the documentation for phone lines is often dealt with by office admins. Business owners understand their rental is paid for direct debit and...
Schneier lambasts Microsoft 'friendly worms'
News The security expert has branded as 'stupid' the concept behind Microsoft research into the use of worms to spread software updates
Microsoft pulls Vista SP1 update
News The company has retracted a prerequisite update for downloading Vista Service Pack 1, after customers complained of problems
Specsavers sees clear benefits in open source
Case Study One of the UK's fastest growing retailers is profiting from its policy of using community-developed software across the organisation
BT responds to 'unethical' contract criticism
News The communications provider has introduced a three-month grace period for PSTN line customers who do not want to be automatically 'upgraded' to a new 12-month contract
Harvard Uni Hack Made Me Smile
Blog Monday's report on Harvard University’s Web site being seriously hacked - with copies of the main server database appearing on a BitTorrent file-sharing network - is a cautionary tale for anyone...
Green light produces purple - no, red! - faces
Blog Here's something that looks like a wonderful idea - Gravia, a swish, elegant human-powered room lamp that gives four hours of light equivalent to a 40 watt light bulb. All you have to do is move a...
RE:Windows XP SP3 coming tomorrow?
Blog Comment Well, drat. One reason that I switched my main laptop back to the Vista disk was that I assumed from all the hype over Vista SP1 and the lack of hype over XP SP3, that the Vista SP would arrive...
Fundamental Competence
Talkback If the student, as part of their college work gets the hang of development by taking part in an open source project, they can gain an excellent foundation understanding of their future job. They...
Windows XP SP3 coming tomorrow?
Blog Thanks to a variety of sources, including ZDNet.com’s Microsoft guru extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley and ZDNet.co.uk’s Rupert Goodwins, we have got wind that Microsoft may announce the final version...
RE:HD-DVD explodes on the launchpad
Blog Comment It's all very simple - what do consumers want? And that's simple to answer: value for money, convenience, and the pleasure of ownership in, I think, that order. I've got friends with walls and...
RIM and Airwave vie to cut police paperwork
Analysis The two companies have different approaches but agree the police service can boost efficiency by making more use of mobile data
Sybase releases virtualised disk cluster tool
News The storage specialist has introduced a cluster edition of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) relational database-management system
‘Office 14’ Web-Friendly - Yippee! Still Not Wallet-Friendly
Blog Big Bill has been quoted in the press recently saying that ‘Office 14’ will be Web-friendly. Welcome to the Internet revolution! Microsoft won’t provide the full functionality of Office online, but...
What a £99 laptop looks like...
Blog We finally got a picture of this Elonex £99 laptop that's about to be launched, and here it is: Some people have pointed out that it looks an awful lot like a Chinese "Simple PC" from Fontastic,...
Mobile phones on a mission to the moon
News In space, no-one can hear you scream — but they will be able to receive your text message, if Nasa gets its way
Top five hard drive mishaps
Blog This comes off a press release from Kroll (surely a crap 80's sci-fi flick? hang on that might be Krull...close though) Ontrack - who claim to specialise in data recovery - but I think there's some...
Games gurus given greater gunning power
Blog For those of us in foggy old London town this morning, news from the San Francisco Games Developers Conference seems all but a misty dream. But inbox's must be opened and the voracious appetites of...
Glasgow and Serco agree outsourcing deal
News The council has teamed up with Serco in a joint venture to transform IT and property services in the city
Management-led team buys CIO Connect
News The buyout led by chief executive Nick Kirkland aims to invest in the organisation so it can 'grow to the next level'
Photos: new BlackBerry Curves
Photo The latest additions to RIM's Curve family of BlackBerry devices include Wi-Fi and GPS, but where's the 3G support?
Government admits to 200 more stolen laptops
News The Ministry of Justice has been revealed as the worst offender, according to figures on laptop, mobile-phone and PDA losses across government departments
Benefits of breaking free from a desk
Blog My children have never known life where I kept a nine to five office job. I have always been at home to send them off to school and welcome them home. Taken them to swimming lessons in the...
Pookanyoni
Forum I identified 50 resellers (software) on the internet who I endeavoured to contact. They all, without exception, place cell phones and similar devices at the top of their sales priority with...
And there you have it...
Talkback It's not hard to see that Microsoft in buying Yahoo sees a way to become the de facto only major portal to the Internet. Now if you can only explain why the EC and other regulatory bodies will let...
HP bucks the trend, tends the bucks
Blog Unambiguously good news from HP, which has shown strong growth in this quarter's figures. Notebook revenues are up nearly 40 percent on this time last year, but even desktops (desktops! Weren't...
If you fancy running a controversial website...
Blog ... you might like to think twice before signing up with Netcetera for hosting purposes. There was an amusingly caustic site called Quackometer, which specialised in spotting and publicising,...
