Previous DaySamsung ships fast 2Gb DDR3 memory
Blog The South Korean company, Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it had begun shipping what it claimed were the first high-density, 2Gb DDR3 memory modules using 50nm technology. Designed for use...
Gov't watchdog reveals early ID card concerns
News Two Gateway Review reports warn of several risks of the identity-card scheme, including inadequate support from relevant organisations, erosion of public support and cost
Robot fish and chips to fight water pollution
Photo Five robot fish will swim the Spanish seas as part of an EC-funded project to pinpoint sources of pollution, such as leaks from ships or underwater pipelines
UK businesses not prepared for the unexpected
News Organisations are not doing enough to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster or IT failure, a new report has warned
Are supercomputers just better liars?
Comment Supercomputers may be far more powerful than ordinary machines, but that does not make their predictions infallible, says Andrew Jones
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog Now for something completely different... I have been wanting to look into something other than the mostly Debian-derived Linux distributions I've tried recently. Now, because of a job prospect...
Netbooks turn into Androids
Blog Analyst firm Ovum has predicted that Android, the Google-led open source mobile OS, will appear on Netbooks before too long. It's hardly the most incisive of predictions (and it's been made before)...
SAS starts building for the cloud
News The company is investing in two 10,000-square-foot server farms in an effort to establish a cloud base
Multiple iPhones could come this year
Blog Apple may be planning to release more than one type of iPhone this year, according to reports. After the company released iPhone OS 3.0 to developers, someone did some digging around the restore...
Researchers demo keystroke-sniffing via laser
News At the CanSecWest security conference, researchers proved they could spy on a computer by using laser beams and by sniffing the electrical socket
Sony Ericsson warns of deepening losses
News The handset manufacturer expects its losses in the first quarter of this year to double those it experienced in the previous quarter
The Public Domain
Review In this book, law professor James Boyle sets out to clarify the issues surrounding intellectual property and the public domain.
Palm: WebOS will expand beyond its Pre base
News Despite reporting dismal quarterly results, the company's CEO says it is on track to launch the Pre on time, and plans a webOS ecosystem that goes 'well beyond our base'
Sony stems losses with salary freeze
News The electronics giant has said there will be no pay increases for non-managerial employees this year, the first time the company has made such a move
Agreed, mostly
Talkback I agree with almost all of your predictions. I think one thing you might have overlooked is that if Microsoft doesn't make some sort of rational upgrade from XP to Win7 possible, without requiring...
TomTom countersues Microsoft with patent claim
News The car navigation device maker responds in a court filing Thursday, accusing Microsoft of violating four of its patents
Developer guidance on “unsafe” cryptographic algorithms
Blog With the UK’s Infosecurity Europe show little more than a month away now, the security vendor community is busily polishing up its latest batch of cure-alls and wonder-tools to aid developers and...
Win 7 on Netbooks? Easy to do.
Talkback The big question is how fast will it be. I usually try out Betas on slow or older hardware first to see what will happen. The usual tech guys in the media seem to like to report about the new Betas...
