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Blog I'm not surprised, but I really wish I was. Let me tell you why. I listen to digital planet via a BBC world service podcast every week, and last weeks version was an eye opener and yet it wasn't!...
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog I have blogged a couple of times about the Apricot netbook. Just to recap, it's the resurrection of a nostalgic brand by virtue of a guy buying the brand a few months ago and launching a rebadged...
Mobile fun with a Blackberry centre...
Blog It was a salutary experience. I'd just sent the iPhone 3G back to Apple after two weeks of playing around with it, when the nice chaps from Research In Motion came in with their latest Blackberry....
BERR launches digital-economy review
News The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has launched an analysis of the UK's digital economy, which will focus on how to accelerate industry growth
Motorola may release its own Android phone
News The phone maker is gearing up to release a social-networking smartphone that uses Google's mobile operating system by the second quarter, according to a report
Identity minister moots ID cards on driving licences
News Speaking at the Biometrics Conference 2008, Home Office minister Meg Hillier said there was 'nothing to stop' drivers' licences or other documents from being designated to work as ID cards
Researchers claim wired-keyboard sniff
News Two researchers studying in Lausanne claim to have developed techniques to intercept keystrokes from wired keyboards
Sun, TI predict revenue drop as credit crunch bites
News The companies have both predicted a decline in revenue year-on-year, and cite current economic difficulties as the cause
Google Android platform source code: "free for everyone"
Blog In a quiet but friendly tip off this afternoon I’ve been told that Google and the Open Handset Alliance have made the Android platform source code available free – “For everyone,” says Google. ...
Latest version of Quickoffice unveiled
News The latest version of the mobile office-software suite was demonstrated at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London
Apple MacBook Pro
Video Apple has introduced several design changes to its 15-inch MacBook Pro, including a new 'unibody' chassis, buttonless multi-touch trackpad, the addition of a mini DisplayPort, and the subtraction...
Linux standards tool adds app testing
News The Linux Foundation has included an app-checker tool in the Linux Standard Base public test version, aiming to address an acknowledged shortcoming
Apple MacBook
Video With its aluminium body, trackpad and Nvidia graphics, Apple's redesigned 13-inch MacBook is an appealing choice for laptop buyers
T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream)
Review The design isn't great and we'd have liked some additional features, but the real beauty of the T-Mobile G1 is the Google Android platform, as it has the potential to make smartphones more personal...
What a difference a screen makes...
Blog With many computer hardware systems now coming in pro and consumer variants it has made looking at each system in detail a must when comparing value vs price. Indeed it is so important to look...
The 'evaporation' of voice and text
Blog I'm posting this from the Symbian Smartphone Show, thankfully being held this year at Earls Court rather than the annoyingly out-of-the-way Excel Centre. Thus far I do not have much to report, save...
Adobe Creative Suite 4
Video More than a dozen professional design tools have received an update with the latest Creative Suite package.
Rootkits: What you should know
Feature Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion-dollar spyware industry by stealing financial information, while rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are...
RE:"Clean Up Your Room" Turns into "Clean Up Your Data"
Blog Comment The company I work for recently upgraded their entire computer system, at HQ and all the stores. During the process some customer data failed to make the transition.Also some non-essential apps...
Cern CIO: Supporting the LHC's computing backbone
Q&A Cern's head of IT, Wolfgang von Rueden, explains the obstacles that lie ahead for the Large Hadron Collider, and why he's stopped reading related news reports
Netbooks prop up European PC sales
News The explosion in mini-laptop sales has boosted Acer to the number-one spot in Europe, and helped the EMEA market show overall growth
Satyam lines up £1bn of UK outsourcing deals
News The Indian outsourcing giant is seeking to close 10 deals worth between £20m and £100m in the UK, as it looks beyond the stricken financial sector
Microsoft to announce 'Global Anti-Piracy Day'
News The software maker is planning to stage co-ordinated activities in 49 countries to highlight its efforts against counterfeit software
Virtualisation 'next frontier' for hackers
News Industry observers have warned that business are unprepared for increasingly significant threats to virtual machines
Failed gov't IT projects cost £273m
News Whitehall has been accused of embarking on IT schemes without proper thought, following the revelation of the losses, incurred over five years
Microsoft to debut next Office at PDC
News Attendees of the upcoming Professional Developers Conference are to get a glimpse of the next Office version's features
Sounds like they want to recruit him or....
Talkback they want to interrogate the crap out of him to find out what or how he did some of his hacking. My guess is that they don't really have a clue how many systems he got into. The 73,000 number...
RE:"Clean Up Your Room" Turns into "Clean Up Your Data"
Blog Comment Hi Alena, A data migration not only offers a great opportunity to improve data quality - it often demands it. It’s likely that the target system will have different data standards and data...
