Previous DayRE:Do we need a campaign to save XP?
Blog Comment If customers can force MS to stretch out Xp for a bit longer by refusing to buy new pc's after June(just like they did in October/November.) And if Microsoft then rolls new Vienna earlier than...
RE:More patient data lost
Blog Comment The fact that the disc went missing and for several months no one noticed suggests that this was an employee's own USB stick, onto which they made a copy of this data. It seems as though the...
Schneier: Cyber-extortion on the rise
News The security expert has warned of an increase in cyber-extortion, but added there is no need for panic about attacks on critical national infrastructures
RE:Are games developers different?
Blog Comment Games developers are the absolute pinacle of software development. If something as crappy as SAP was written with the same rigour as a game we'd have much better corporate software. Console games...
Are games developers different?
Blog I used to be editor of a cross-platform software engineering magazine that every year ran a special games development issue - and we used to sell more copies of that issue than any other throughout...
Cisco develops own Power over Ethernet standard
News The proprietary 'enhanced Power over Ethernet' standard can power wireless access points designed for the 802.11n draft over the LAN
UK city to get fibre via sewers 'within two years'
News Dark fibre plus sewers equals more convenience and an increased flow of bits — up to 100Mbps to every business and residential property
More patient data lost
Blog The Manchester Evening News is reporting that yet more NHS data has been lost, following on from last week's revelations of a lost NHS USB data stick. After media reports of the lost Stockton...
Tech-obsessed BPM vendors ignoring users' needs
News Business-process management vendors are creating unnecessary "bells and whistles" technology to the detriment of human interaction, claims Butler Group
What about ........
Talkback What about banning the use of portable media such as CD's DVD's, USB drives, Flash drives etc. completely. Or better still put in place methods to securely encrypt such media automatically...
BT launches unified comms system for SMEs
News The Communications Complete package, based on Cisco's UC500 IP phone system, is being pitched at small to medium-sized businesses
Bundling
Talkback The issue is not necesarily with Microsoft. Its with the hardware manufactures (OEM's) who ship the vast majority of PC's. They bundle all kinds of additional software with the operating system,...
Surely not again!! More CDs go missing...
Blog I can’t quite believe this but it seems that the sh*t-storm that followed the loss of millions of individuals details by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs last year – didn’t get through to the UK’s...
ID cards may be delayed until 2012
News A leaked government paper indicates the rollout of the second phase of the ID cards scheme will be delayed by two years
Ministry of Justice loses four CDs of personal data
News The ministry has admitted losing four discs in the post but refused to comment on reports that the data belongs to alleged victims of crime and witnesses
Apple's first quarter fires on all cylinders
News The company's latest quarterly results show it has continued a financial run on the strength of its Mac business
Cisco buys into UK femtocell firm
News Ip.access — which develops small, mobile base stations — has received an undisclosed investment from the networking giant
Manchester Airport launches staff biometrics
News The first iris-recognition access-control system at a UK airport has been implemented, to control the movement of 25,000 staff
BlackBerry gets native Office doc editing
News The ability to edit Microsoft Office docs without third-party software was among the enhancements to the BlackBerry platform announced at Lotusphere 2008
Super Techies: Brendan Eich
Video Mozilla's chief technology officer discusses battling Microsoft in the browser wars and his current role overseeing enhancements for Firefox
Presentation Veteran Insight: PowerPoint 2007 Review with Recommendations 1
Blog This essay just provides personal perspective on using PowerPoint 2007 as presentation tool and share the proven methods and techniques I've developed after the throughout year of facilitating...
Fujitsu ScanSnap S300
Review This compact and lightweight colour scanner could prove useful to mobile professionals who need to digitise paper documents on their travels, although it only scans to PDF and doesn't run on...
Questions remain after Oracle's BEA takeover
News The chairman of the UK Oracle User Group has said that although the acquisition was a logical move, it is unclear what it will mean for users
Immediate ban stops laptops leaving Whitehall
News Civil servants have been warned that laptops and hard drives containing personal data cannot be removed from government premises unless they are encrypted
Kaspersky launches hosted email service
News The company has introduced an anti-spam and anti-malware service aimed at UK small businesses
Open Source - ripe for consolidation?
Blog Sun's acquisition of MySQL demonstrated a lot of things, but one of the main ones is that there's lots of money in "free" software. You could put this another way if you're an analyst: "After...
