Previous DayThe "MediaMafia" of RIAA, MPAA and their subsidiaries . .
Talkback They need to have their copyrights temporarily suspended. They basically works a big "protection racket". When you think of the beginning of copyrights all this is absurd. In the beginning...
Microsoft adopts GPL for Hyper-V Linux components
Blog Mark this day in your diary: Microsoft has decided to use the GPL for some of its software. This is according to Matt Asay over on our American sister site CNet News, who reports that the...
BT to resell Microsoft's business cloud suite
News Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, including applications such as Exchange Online and Office Live Meeting, will be integrated with BT's 21CN network
Avaya could buy Nortel Enterprise Solutions
Blog Nortel Networks' Enterprise Solutions business is likely to be sold to Avaya for $475m (£288m), the companies announced on Monday. The deal marks the latest sale of a Nortel division, following...
Contractors won't be subject to FoI
Blog Third party contractors will not have to answer Freedom of Information requests, the government said on Thursday. The results of a Ministry of Justice consultation, published last week, show...
Images: The Apollo 11 moon landing
Photo The first ever visit by humankind to another celestial body, Nasa's Apollo 11 mission, marks its 40th anniversary today
Dell Latitude XT2
Review The Dell Latitude XT2's key feature is its largely successful multi-touch capability. Build quality is excellent, but the absence of an integrated optical drive is a nuisance and battery life is...
Linux exploit gets around security barrier
News A security hole in the Linux kernel, which allows security features in the operating system to be bypassed, affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, according to a security researcher
Accenture buys Symbian services unit
News The deal means rival handset manufacturers will not need to go to Nokia for advice on how to implement the mobile operating system, which is soon to be open source
Apollo's lunar lessons for IT
Leader The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing has concentrated on heroics, politics and mechanics. Apollo 11's computer has its own secrets
E-reader maker Polymer Vision goes under
Blog Polymer Vision, the makers of the Readius folding e-ink reader, have gone under due to funding issues. The Readius has been shown off in working prototype form since 2007. Much more portable...
HP acquires Ibrix
News HP has signed an agreement to buy Ibrix, which makes enterprise-scale file-serving software aimed at helping customers manage and store large amounts of data
Nasa takes steps to restore Apollo 11 footage
News A Hollywood post-production house is working to re-create images of astronaut Neil Armstrong's historic moon walk. Here is how Lowry Digital is approaching the project
Microsoft testing Home Server update
News The software maker has said it hopes to unleash 'Power Pack 3', with improved netbook and Windows 7 compatibility, before releasing Windows 7
Intel completes Wind River acquisition
News The chipmaker now owns the embedded software specialist, whose technology is used in mobile phones, cars and the Mars rovers
MoJ issues digital-preservation code of practice
News The Ministry of Justice is recommending that public bodies do more to preserve digital records, and is extending the Freedom of Information Act to more organisations
Microsoft tweaks default IE8 settings
News The software giant has adjusted its installer so users will always be asked if they want to switch their default browser to version 8 of Internet Explorer
Google patches holes in Chrome
News New versions of Google Chrome are out, fixing bugs and patching security holes in both the stable and the beta build
Software Change Management: The Multimedia Movie
Blog It had to happen, logically speaking I mean. Software change and configuration management (SCCM or SCM depending on your preferred acronym) probably needed to offer more advanced web and multimedia...
Gov't writes off £24m on failed IT project
News The government is attempting to recover costs from its supplier after phase two of the Scope programme was terminated after 'key contractual milestones' were missed
It's nice of Bill to make these available in a Microsoft-onl...
Talkback Call me a cynic, but if Bill really wanted to be nice, rather than trying to foist Sliverlight on everyone, he'd make these videos available in a format that pretty much everyone could use (eg,...
