Previous DayUS hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the Department of Homeland Security to court for not disclosing how it uses and shares EU airline passenger information
Iraq reaps ironic wireless rewards
Blog It struck me today with great irony how Iraq is getting its own Wimax network over the next few months. Despite the political turmoil in the country, there are still those who are delighted...
Microsoft submits server tech documentation to EU
Blog Microsoft has finally turned over technical documetation to the EC that may let non-Microsoft work-group servers achieve interoperability with Windows servers. The EC is not amused that it has...
Oracle honeymooon over for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards
News UK Oracle User Group finds nervous satisfaction among users of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software, nearly two years on from the Oracle acquisition
BenQ CP120 digital projector
Review BenQ's CP120 is a feature-rich wireless-enabled projector that's perfectly at home in a conference room, yet is small enough and light enough to carry to meetings.
Pie-eating championship goes slimline
Blog Corking story here, about changes made to the World Pie Eating Challenge [which is rapidly replacing The Ashes as my favourite sporting competition]. The organisers are reacting to concerns about...
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Yeah, we know. Won't work with Microsoft's oh-so-ironically labelled Plays For Sure, won't work with Vista, won't work with the Mac, has really really naff DRM, has wasted its Wi-Fi and requires...
Why you should care about quad-core processing
FAQ Dual core has only just arrived and Intel is already talking quad core — what does it all mean, and where will it lead? We get the lowdown on the quad-core processor era
Police and military 'battling over spectrum'
News A new data network for the emergency services won't take off unless the MoD starts sharing its spectrum, Motorola claims
$100 laptop goes into production
Blog The first 1000 machines from the One Laptop per Child project have gone into production. The new batch of notebooks are going to face some vigorous testing according to OLPC to make sure the design...
Microsoft hit by patent suit
News Following Microsoft's allegations over Linux patents, the software giant is now accused of intellectual property infringement by Alcatel
Microsoft hits European antitrust deadline
News After a two-year process, Microsoft has finally submitted what it hopes will be the final proposals for settling its tortuous legal wrangle with the EU
FM transmitters go legal
Blog Well, we knew this already but the update is that your iTrip or whatever will be genuinely legit as of December 8. As promised.
Ndiyo: Sharing PCs to bridge the digital divide
Feature Rather than aiming for one laptop per child, start-up Ndiyo thinks the developing world would benefit from sharing PCs more effectively
It will get worse
Talkback Sometime in 2007 I’m predicting a colossal failure of e-privacy that will affect a large number of people in a real way. We’ve seen a handful of flare-ups such as this laptop being stolen, theft of...
ICT suppliers face national accreditation
News National Computing Centre launches a standard to recognise worthy ICT suppliers
Orange call-centre fiasco
Blog According to an ex-employee, an unspecified number of staff at Orange's North Tyneside call-centre have been using the same login details and password! Not a terribly good security practice, I'm...
World's largest supercooled magnet gets going
News Data for a huge global computing grid will be generated by 860 tons of superconducting, niobium-titanium cored magnet
Chips, the Universe and Everything
Photo We enter the cavernous halls of CERN, ostensibly to hear about Intel's quad-core processors, but really to ogle at massive particle physics experiments and track down the world's first Web server
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Talkback Some companies already use it. I worked in a Telecommunications company (that I will leave nameless) that sold Voip services and they still used it. In that case it was soley used for it's...
IT pros 'must build their business knowledge'
News The British Computing Society has backed a survey that claims IT managers should focus more on acquiring business skills and communications between departments
Microsoft and Novell clash over patents
Talkback Considering Linux is a variant of Unix, which was around long before M$, maybe the only infringement is from the Redmond side. I remember the early days of M$ they were using Apple as their R&D...
Microsoft denies role in Birmingham Linux flop
News Software giant says it didn't offer discounts to encourage council's XP upgrade, but Birmingham's response is less clear
VeriSign expected to restate earnings
News Restatement comes as a result of the company's ongoing investigation into stock options practices
While financial organisations worry about protecting physica...
Talkback ....and the data on their databases, it appears the public fear of identity theft has been overshadowed. The human threat is actually one of the biggest threats as it cannot be completely...
