Previous DayRE:The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment Apple are trying to release iPhone with only 1 operator per country so they have greater leverage. If you want our phone you have to give us what we want. This includes adding network features to...
RE:Microsoft's new nanotech display technology
Blog Comment A monitor with mechanical moving parts..... maybe you would need the nano bots to carry out the sevice and repair functions....I would expect the oil to be sealed in as with gearboxes in cars....
Icahn forces himself into the Yahoo board!
Talkback I guess they had little choice but to compromise, it shows how weak Yahoo's leadership is. Now that he's no longer the outspoken investor they can ignore, the chaos will come from within, could...
Brown aide honeytrap victim?
Blog One of Gordon Brown's senior advisors could have been the victim of a Chinese honeytrap plot, according to the Times. He was picked up by a woman in a disco in Shanghai while visiting on a...
EC cool on data-roaming regulation
News The European Commission's director general of telecoms says data usage should be easier for roaming consumers to measure, but says data-roaming price caps 'should be avoided'
Georgian president suffers cyberattack
News Political tensions with Russia have been blamed for distributed-denial-of-service attacks against the Georgian president's website
Open source 'lacks enterprise-grade security'
News A new study finds lax or non-existent security processes in open-source development, serving as a warning to businesses
Lords opposition to comms database mounts
News Peers have asked the government whether it will withdraw proposals for a centralised government database of all citizen communications
Hitachi: Relevant retrieval key to future storage
News The company says intelligent information retrieval will be a key focus in the future, as data continues to grow exponentially
Icahn joins Yahoo board
News Activist investor Carl Icahn has agreed to withdraw his slate of nominees for election to Yahoo's board, taking up a place himself
The Taxpayer ALWAYS pays
Talkback If the costs for the search for the missing disks had been left with the Met, who would have paid for it then? The taxpayer of course! At least this way it is the taxpayers of the whole nation,...
Business Widget of the Week - Bloomberg on the iphone
Blog Will my posts ever end about the iphone ? Maybe they won't as it really is looking like a whole new platform. As a small business user I have been zapping the free applications from the store and...
AMD on road to recovery, says research firm
News Technology Business Research says Opteron and Puma are boosting AMD's chip business, but the company could be hurt by the economic downturn
Defra equips staff with 'green' laptops
News The government department will limit its 10,000 staff to the use of one energy-saving laptop each, to be ferried between home and office
Google to buy Russian ad firm ZAO Begun
News Through the £70m purchase of Rambler Media's ad unit, Google is increasing its efforts to penetrate the Russian market
Indian outsourcing giants see sluggish growth
News Despite record-breaking spending on outsourcing so far in 2008, Infosys, TCS and Wipro have reported slow first-quarter growth
Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search
News The Metropolitan Police Service aims to recover from HM Revenue & Customs the full £473,544 cost of the search for the missing child-benefit CDs
NFC tech predicted to reach tipping point by 2013
News Analyst firm Juniper Research says the number of mobile wallet devices using near-field communications will begin to ramp up from 2010
Microsoft's new nanotech display technology
Blog Today's MIT Technology Review reports on an intriguing display technology from an unusual source – Microsoft Research. The display tech is designed to replace LCDs. Each pixel is built out of...
Science fiction nightmare reveals WiMAX as an alien plot
Blog Today, I wake at 5am in something of a funk. I'd been having a bad and very vivid dream in which aliens disguised as IT marketing executives were trying to take over the world. Their technology was...
Consumerisation - an ugly name with a beautiful future
Blog By any standards, consumerisation - or consumerization, if you're in the US - is an unlovely word. Even if you haven't come across it before, you'll know what it describes: the adoption by the...
