Previous DayRE:Lib Dems set up Commission on Privacy
Blog Comment I'm afraid the Lib Dems are no more with it than Labour. At present the only big problem that requires attention is the nation's mishandled economy. The Lib Dem's commission should be focussing...
Is it too little, too late
Talkback This is a great stride forward in the efforts to get all Britain on a superfast broadband with sufficient bandwidth to handle the users without problems. But, as usual, the Government has done...
Chinese whispers across London airwaves
Blog It is a useful convention in international affairs that anywhere in the world, a country's embassy is its sovereign territory. This covers a multitude of sins and helpful tax breaks, but gets...
RE:Which Netbook ? Help !
Blog Comment I'd agree with JW on this one. I took the HP2133 (on loan from HP) out to Microsofts PDC with Vista on it (I upgraded the memory to 2GB) and I was pretty happy with it. The build quality feels...
Open-source developers reach for the cloud
News Forty percent of open-source developers are planning to use cloud services, far more than among the general developer population, according to a new survey
US payment processor in credit data breach
News One of the largest credit-card payment processors in the US has discovered malware that compromises data in its systems
BlackBerry app store open for submissions
News RIM has invited developers to submit their applications for the on-device BlackBerry app marketplace, due to go live later this quarter
2009: The year websites become accessible to all
Comment Web expert Bruce Lawson says a number of factors have come together in web development that should make site accessibility a key issue this year
Is it up to us - or should operators recommend the best tariffs?
Blog I recently noticed that the mobile phone portion of my broadband, tv + fixed line bill was steadily creeping up from the £20-£30 I had been used to up to £60 and in one month £80. It got me...
Seagate bug fix hits problems
News Seagate has confirmed that a fix for broken drives is faulty, but has denied reports from some users who say the fix can 'kill' drives and cause data loss
HTC Europe chief defects to Palm
Blog Paul Ghent, HTC's executive director for Europe, has moved over to rival phonemaker Palm to become sales vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It's an interesting defection -...
Ericsson to lay off 5,000 workers
News The redundancies follow the mobile-network infrastructure firm's latest quarterly results, which show a steep decline in profits, partly due to a 'dramatic drop' in Sony Ericsson's contribution
Nasa hacker: I'm safe until prosecution decision
News Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon has expressed relief at his four-week stay of extradition to the US to face hacking charges
Software Review (Not Belkin, same thing).
Talkback This is not the first time companies do this, apart from the apology, which must be a first. I once bought some graphic software only to discover months later a glowing report on a software review...
ID guide aims to prevent corporate IT break-ins
News The Corporate IT Forum has published an identity-management guide designed to help companies keep track of who is accessing what
Is Bill's philanthropy just another form of control?
Blog On a flight back from LA last week I found myself in that brain limbo that too much air travel can impose. Too wired to sleep but too tired to sit through a whole movie so breaking with my normal...
Bournemouth ready for first Fibrecity homes
News The first homes to be connected to the 100Mbps Fibrecity network currently being built in Bournemouth will be hooked up by the end of March
IBM earnings beat Wall Street expectations
News Results are stronger than expected as the company reports a 12 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings, despite the economic meltdown
Photos: HTC Touch 3G
Photo HTC's Touch 3G stays close to the original Touch's design ethos, but updates the specification.
Red Hat version 5.3 released
News RHEL 5.3 features virtualisation improvements, support for Intel's Core i7 architecture and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun
ELearning - Helping SMEs Through Economic Downturn
Blog The evidence that sales at many companies are struggling and that companies have to lay off employees to maintain companies' running. Dell Inc, the world's No. 2 PC maker, will cut about 1,900 of...
