Previous DayBlame the government's outdated I.T. methods
Talkback Its suprising that the government, in this day and age, still has to compile data onto discs in order to transfer it from one place to another. why dont they biuld an internal network that'd...
Upbeat Arun - with insight on mobile future and even the iPhone!
Blog Earlier this week - the FT published a long interview with Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone. There are some interesting insights into the future of mobile services and into Arun's outlook. Vodafone,...
Blunder with 60.5m records??
Talkback I am truly fearful of what the Govt is going to do with 57 separate pieces of information on the 60.5+m people living in the UK. Can you imagine the nightmare of a few DVD's of all that information...
Vista, like in out in left field.
Talkback The EU did do one thing right. They sued Microsoft and they so far have made it stick. I actually think the sales figures for Vista reflect, as the author indicated, most buyers don't have a...
I think, therefore I am… a mobile developer
Blog I seem to be increasingly focused on mobile these days, so much so that it makes me think back to a comment piece I ran in a development magazine I used to edit. The piece was on mobile development...
Nokia Siemens launches green push
News The networking company has updated its equipment and software to help its operator customers reduce their energy consumption
Analysts lament security 'arms race'
News Security chiefs must learn to anticipate the next threat rather than countering current ones, according to analysts at the Gartner Symposium
Software we have known and loved: Lotus Symphony 3
Photo IBM/Lotus recently released an office suite called Symphony — but it isn't the first to go by that name
RE:First Results - SightSpeed
Blog Comment J.A. -- thanks for your thorough report about your experience with SightSpeed. One note -- you mention that you would like to choose a "medium" video display mode. You can, in fact, easily do...
Can Amazon's Kindle become a bestseller?
Analysis For years the public has proved reluctant to trade in paperbacks for e-readers, but Amazon still hopes Kindle will set the world of e-books on fire
Inside Firefox 3 Beta 1
Photo How is Firefox 3 shaping up? We take a look inside the Beta 1 release.
Analyst: 'TaaS' to cut tech costs for business
News 'Technology as a service', a pay-by-use model for both software and hardware, will soon lower procurement costs, Gartner has said
HMRC data breach fiasco disks appear on eBay
Blog At least somebody has a sense of humour about the absolute farce of the UK Government losing discs holding the personal details of 25 million UK citizens. Including their bank account details. ...
Government 'bang to rights' over HMRC fiasco
News The largest-ever data breach by the UK government has attracted censure from the Information Commissioner's Office, which has warned that data-protection laws may have been contravened
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Everybody seems to be talking about Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader just now, and if you're wondering why there's no coverage on ZDNet UK Reviews, it's because the device is not yet available for...
MessageLabs warns of customised email attacks
Photo Two highly targeted email attacks on individuals occurred this week, both of which contained malicious attachments that could lead to the recipient's system being taken over
CIOs urged: Offer business analytics or lose budget
News Gartner has said IT departments must offer data as an intelligence service to management if they are to avoid IT budget cuts in the future
Nice one guys
Talkback What idiots if it were a private company you would be finished and never trade again. But we have no choice.
Amazon introduces its Kindle e-reader
Photo Chief executive Jeff Bezos on Monday unveiled the company's e-book reader, an electronic handheld device for reading material ranging from novels to newspapers
Facebook enabling tailored email attacks
News MessageLabs has warned that social-networking sites are providing cybercrooks with the information to target individuals in email attacks
Firefox 3 Beta 1: a first look
Preview Beta 1 of Firefox 3 is finally available for download. Here are our first impressions.
Well the Gorilla has found me out! Now I know what FREE really means.
Blog 4AM CST It appears that I've violated some of the small print over at Microsoft Dead-Office. They've pulled my nascent website down. I get an error message in both FireFox and IE7. What's really...
Intellect: European software industry booming
News Heavy R&D investment is keeping the European software industry a strong force in the world economy, according to the IT trade body
Enlightenment could have been the best
Talkback I have been using E17 for at least a year now, and before that I was using E16 for many years. I think Enlightenment represents the true window manager. True in a sense that it allows you to...
HP's Brobdingnagian printer
Blog My colleague and fellow Dialogue Box presenter Rupert Goodwins draws my attention to a product we really must take a look at — if we can get it into the building. Observe the HP Scitex TJ8300...
Linux legal team sues over GPL violations
News The Software Freedom Law Center has filed suit against two companies for alleged violation of the General Public License
Shocking inadequacy of system protocol...
Talkback The fact that there were no controls on access and duplication rights to this information was already startling - if the NAO had a requirement for provision of this information by the HMRC there...
You get what you pay for
Talkback Lets face it how can you expect a proffessional attitude by people in charge of our personal data when you probably pay them basic wages - hence the "junior" tag to the description of the person...
Microsoft Project 2003 Server working with Sharepoint
Forum Can anyone tell me anything about these two applications working together. We use Microsoft Sharepoint (the free version, not portal) and we have been asked to install Microsoft Project 2003...
You expect me to blog? No, Mr Goodwins, I expect you to die...
Blog Our first day visiting Huawei's Shenzhen HQ is over, and I'm just off out for the evening's entertainment. I'll come back to what's been gleaned about strategy and the joint venture with Symantec...
Blaming junior officials not good enough
Talkback The problem is not simply that "instructions and procedures" were not followed; how did a junior official have access to the entire database, let alone clearance to download it all and burn it onto...
IT know-how comes second for the 'CIO 2.0'
News Gartner analysts have predicted that future government tech chiefs will be business and relationship focused, with IT knowledge taking a backseat
A quick look
Talkback I've only had an hour to play with version 3 but it handles quite nicely or maybe thats just the lack of plugins installed :) The ability to click the Favicon on the address bar and have...
Broadband prevails for UK internet
News The latest quarterly survey from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that nearly nine out of 10 connections to the internet in the UK are now made via broadband
Darling blames officials for data loss
News The chancellor of the exchequer has said employees of HM Revenue & Customs were responsible for the loss of details on 25 million child-benefit claimants
