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Blog Well it had to happen at some point. Finally I get round to writing a blog - along with signing up for Twitter, Delicious, Linked In and Ping.fm, this week has been a bit of a social networking...
RE:Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment The end result was the Electoral Commission’s report into the London Elections called for the Greater London Returning Officer to carry out a cost benefit analysis of options for counting ballot...
Danger! High energy X-rays! From Sellotape?
Blog As usual, the excellent Nature production editors nail a story with a succinct one-liner: "How weird is that?". Very. It turns out that ordinary sticky tape - Sellotape in the UK, Scotch tape in...
Yummy... throw away comms solutions will grow
Talkback Throw away email addresses, proxy IP addresses, buying pay as you go sim cards from Tesco with cash.... all going to grow in volume. Don't get the point of all this. If you're clever, you...
RE:Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment Glyn Wintle.. thanks for replying and sorry about the misspelling! What has really struck me after following your links, was to read the most utterly shocking sentence "London Elects admit that...
In praise of a sinful Apple
Leader Apple's quarterly results are stellar, with the promise of much more to come
Sony rolls out latest Vaio laptops for business
News The new TT Series models are premium laptops at a premium price, with the top-end version priced at £1,999
And the government are good at losing data !!
Talkback I had to laugh at your comment "the Great Unwashed" well I do shave !! but seriously, I totally agree with your arguments and what worries me regarding company site security is that the British gov...
Lenovo IdeaPad S10
Video Lenovo's entry in the netbook sweepstakes, the IdeaPad S10, gets the price and features right but falls behind on battery life
Low-income homes to trial free web-access scheme
News The government has chosen Oldham and Suffolk as the first areas where school pupils from low-income families will get free access to PCs and the web at home
Schneier on Security
Review This book is a compendium of Bruce Schneier's many columns on a wide range of security topics. We assess its value, and talk with the author.
Why the iPhone is so valuable to Apple
Analysis It's not just buzz that is generated by the iPhone: it produces quite a bit of cash as well. Just under 40 percent of Apple's revenue can now be attributed to the device
HP's latest iPAQs
Photo HP has unveiled a couple of updated iPAQs: a smartphone and a handheld with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Intel exec: ARM to blame for slow iPhones
News At IDF in Taiwan, a senior Intel executive claimed the iPhone struggles with demanding apps because of the shortcomings of ARM chips
Google.org awards disease-prevention grants
News The search giant's philanthropic arm has issued $14.8m in grants aimed at preventing disease outbreaks in Southeast Asia and Africa
ARM joins Symbian Foundation, releases tools
News The processor firm has signed up alongside other new entrants including Huawei and Visa. Meanwhile, both Symbian and ARM have released new developer tools
'Wave and pay' travel on way to Liverpool
News Contactless bankcards are set to be trialled on buses in Merseyside, in a pilot of the technology by Stagecoach, MasterCard and The Royal Bank of Scotland
Oracle told to name settlement price in SAP case
News A US judge has ordered Oracle to set a figure in its litigation over the handling of third-party data for ex-customers who switched to SAP
Yahoo sees its glass half full
Analysis The company says it's poised to do well when the advertising market recovers, but investors may be more concerned about the short term
Google Gears gives laptops a location fix
News Browsers and web applications can now get geographic information from an update to the Google Gears technology, with Wi-Fi networks giving a rough position indicator
Spintronic CPUs at least 10 years away, says Intel
News Intel has said alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs are years away, as the focus remains on incremental improvements to get smaller and more efficient chips
Strong services sales boost VMware profits
News The copmpany has cited strong sales of virtualisation services for increases in revenue and profit during the third quarter
Inside Apple's profit statement
Blog Delve inside the latest sales and profit statement you will find a few gems of future paths and interesting breakdowns on the state of the Apple machine. On netbook - Apple sees the iphone in...
Tech jobs may be safer than in dot-com crash
Analysis Whatever job cuts occur in the tech sector in coming months, they're unlikely to be as deep or as lasting as the cuts that occurred in the dot-com bust
RIM sheds light on BlackBerry app stores
News Co-founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis fleshed out the structure of the upcoming app stores at the first-ever BlackBerry Developer Conference
RE:Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment I think the Apricot netbook just proves you can't buy in a shipment of anonymous gear, slap a sticker on it, bung any old software on top and have a good product. Or even an acceptable product....
No BlackBerry Crumble: RIM’s first DevCon Serves up a Tasty Pie
Blog Were it not for a broken boiler that I need to attend to (damn you Potterton) I would have been at RIM’s first Developer Conference in Santa Clara this week. In the wake of yesterday’s unleashing...
Yahoo to cut over 1,400 jobs as profits slump
News The company's third-quarter net income dropped 64 percent year on year, with the workforce to be reduced by at least 10 percent by year's end
Google shares Android source code
News The search giant has begun to share the project's underlying source code on the Android Open Source Project site
Apple profits rocket but outlook 'challenging'
News Fourth-quarter profits soared past expectations but Apple offered cautious guidance for the current quarter, coinciding with the crucial holiday shopping season
RE:Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment Having to work every day on Windows systems what I would add to this discussion is that a "XP skin" for Gnome or KDE could take care of most of the "look and feel" issues. Operational items like...
RE:Microsoft takes a sideways look at touch technology
Blog Comment The biggest problem with infrared sensing has been that sunlight swamps sensitive IR detectors. Other IR touchscreens have used various modulated IR emitters in an attempt to "bypass" the DC...
Guilt by Click-Association
Talkback I was thinking more like if he's clicked through to or typed into his browser window a URL for a jihadist website, as far as Homeland Insecurity is concerned that's proof enough to make him a...
Microsoft takes a sideways look at touch technology
Blog Always a pleasure to report on Microsoft doing good stuff - and this is good stuff. The company's researchers have studded the sides of a mobile phone with infra-red sensors, which can detect the...
