Previous DayRE:Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment Glyn, I've got as far as your talk with the audience on blip TV. I was not aware of the internet vote being cross scripted! The voting log being changed without anyone recording it, or the fact...
RE:Things your PC never volunteers
Blog Comment It's a great idea Adrian. In our culture of assumption there will always be people who get left behind. Here's some for the pot. I come across many people who are not aware that you can right...
A close shave with cunning malware
Blog Our advertising team - fine men and women all, and I'm not just saying that because of their role in my drinks bill - forwarded me a fascinating note. It seems that a bad person had faked...
Symbian, GPL tension and 'bright lines'
Blog One of the big questions about Symbian going open source has been that of what is going to happen to the third-party, proprietary code that exists within Symbian today. I've covered this previously...
Fedora development 'worth $10.8bn'
News According the authors of a Linux Foundation report, Fedora would have cost billions of dollars to develop had it been done through proprietary, commercial means
Symbian's research chief on going open source
Q&A How do you open up a closed codebase? Symbian research chief David Wood tells ZDNet.co.uk about potential and practicality, and the promise of multicore phones
Industry expects e-crime unit to 'knock on doors'
Analysis The formation of the Police Central e-Crime Unit should go some way towards appeasing business leaders who mourn the proactive approach of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit
How to spot a defective modem
Blog AT&T, bless them, have put up a page of hints that might suggest your modem is not working. My personal favourites are: - Modem is smoking. - Modem is smashed into bits and pieces. - Modem...
RE:Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment This has been my only complaint with Linux. You try to start a program and it tells you some dependencies are missing. In my case it has been the program Rosegarden. I have only found one distro...
Red Hat: IT 'lock-in' caused by lack of knowledge
Q&A While business heads avoid product lock-in across other industries, they fail to do the same for IT decisions, claims Red Hat chief Jim Whitehurst
Gizmo5 Offers Free Conference Calling
Blog Gizmo5 is offering their users free access to conference calls for up to ten participants. No tricks, no strings, you just request a conference room number, and then give that number to the others...
Apple MacBook Pro
Review Apple's new 15in. MacBook Pro has a redesigned aluminium body, a new touchpad with expanded functionality and a dual graphics setup for either longer battery life or better performance. However,...
ARM Cortex-based netbooks due soon
News The British micro-architecture giant has said netbooks using next-generation ARM chips will be announced within 'months'
Google Maps gets UK road-traffic data
News The Highways Agency has allowed its traffic data to appear within Google Maps, letting motorists plan ahead to avoid congestion
Apple University Anyone
Blog Reports in the US have confirmed that Apple has hired the dean of the Yale school of management and he will join the company as the Vice president of Apple University in 2009. Both MccDonalds and...
Malware rises as stock market falls, claims report
News PandaLabs says its statistics show that cybercriminals are exploiting economic uncertainty to target confused consumers
LinkedIn secures further $22.7m investment
News The strategic investment, which brings the site's total funds raised to a little more than $100m, seems to support its $1bn valuation
Police to get mobile fingerprint scanners
News The handheld scanners, to rolled out from 2010, will allow officers to perform on-the-spot ID checks
TfL explores options for Oyster replacement
News According to a Transport for London exec, the Oyster card may be replaced with ticketing systems that operate through mobile phones or bank cards
Amazon sees shares fall as profits rise
News Posting revenues that were slightly below analyst expectations, shares in the e-commerce giant fell 15 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday
Microsoft working on SP2 for Vista, Office 2007
News The Office 2007 update will come early next year, while Microsoft will not confirm the arrival date of Vista Service Pack 2
Games development: a tester’s perspective
Blog For the last few months I’ve been involved with a company that produces games for the Mac platform as one of their ‘testers’. It’s an unpaid role of course, but I have been able to witness the...
Coders to profit as Android Market opens
News With T-Mobile's G1 phone now on sale in the US, Google has opened the Android Market app store, with developers set to receive 70 percent of revenue
Feeling up the G1 Android phone
Blog Late yesterday I took up an invitation from the processor architecture firm ARM to go hands-on with the HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 / first-bloody-Android-phone-out-the-gates. I won't bore you with...
Yahoo job cuts
Talkback Guess Yahoo has made a mistake by not accepting M$ offer
