Previous DayRE:The BPI's grand waste of paper
Blog Comment Well said. I have nothing but utter contempt for the BPI, their misinformation, half-truths and outright lies. The public are sick of the music industry's greed, and many - who would never think of...
RE:European LinkedIn rival XING triples its earnings
Blog Comment OK, that proves they are on there, but are they doing business? For a business networking site you would kind of expect a large proportion of the 23 million members to be doing business on there,...
RE:The Google Apple Merger: Fantasy or Future?
Blog Comment I do think it's fantasy, there's very little either company can gain from a merger; most companies merge because they can combine sectors and save on operation costs, but in this case their...
Three-quarters of US bank sites insecure, says university
News Banks need to start using SSL on all pages on their websites, researchers from the University of Michigan have argued
RE:Twitter tweets its own death warrant
Blog Comment This may have been the "jump the shark" moment for Twitter given the outages and the general lack of apparent concern for their assets a.k.a. Twitterers or....whatever. They are piling up one...
The BPI's grand waste of paper
Blog Now that I've written my straight news story on the BPI's imminent scare campaign against illegal filesharing, I thought I'd vent my spleen on the subject. What's going to happen is that...
Major ISPs to issue file-sharing warnings
News The BPI has signed a deal with the six largest internet service providers in the UK that will see 'hundreds of thousands of informative letters' sent to customers suspected of illegal file-sharing
Attack code released for Kaminsky DNS flaw
News Security vendor Websense says IT pros will have their work cut out following the release of exploit code for a DNS flaw that affects multiple vendors
Why I am now a Technology Tory
Blog If the classic definition of being Tory is a dislike of big government and a hankering after the clarity of the past, I now find myself happy to be classed as such. What has 'gone wrong' in so...
Twitter tweets its own death warrant
Blog Much has been made of Twitter's recent outages. But with today the worst day so far, Twitter could be about to find its previously loyal fanbase all disappear. It's bad enough when you discover...
Scientists' plea for Bletchley Park
News Senior scientific experts are calling for the site to be saved, asking for Bletchley Park 'to be provided with the same financial stability as some of our other great museums'
Defragging: Merits?
Forum Win98 was FAT and FAT32 only - NTFS read support could be added with some 3rd party bolt-ons. Defragging NTFS is not so important since NTFS in inherently fragmented anyway - the first block of...
BT joins enterprise open-source community
News As a strategic partner to FossBazaar, BT joins companies like Google, HP and Novell in promoting free and open-source software in the enterprise
Gov't defends data-sharing policy
News Seeking to assuage privacy concerns over data sharing, the Home Office has claimed it has no ambition to build a surveillance society
Intel chip launch targets robots, cars and TV
News The company has integrated most of the non-memory chips of a PC into a single processor, hoping to capture the net-connected device market
iPhone users warned of phishing threat
News A security researcher claims the iPhone's Mail and Safari apps are prone to URL spoofing, enabling phishing attacks against users
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News The database project is aimed at trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL, creating a smaller, faster version
Windows Small Business Server 2008: a first look
Preview Microsoft's 2008 bundle of server OS, applications and services for small businesses will ship on 12 November. Here are our impressions of the public preview release, which shows some big changes...
RE:The App store spells death to Jailbreaking the iPhone
Blog Comment I don't see as treating customers with contempt. I see it as a combination of ignorance, incompetence and arrogance. It is evident with a lot of big corps especially when entering a new area they...
UK comms-snooping requests top half a million
News In 2007, 519,260 requests for communications data were made by public authorities — an increase of over 50 percent on 2006
Orange bundles mobile broadband with Eee PC
News The operator's 'Connected Laptop' packages bundle HP and Asus laptops with the 'Internet Everywhere' mobile-broadband package
Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent battle
News The mobile-phone giant and chipmaker have agreed a 15-year licensing deal that resolves all of their patent litigation
Google launches Wikipedia rival Knol
News The company expects Knol to avoid the accusations of inaccuracy that have often plagued Wikipedia entries
Microsoft Windows chief jumps ship for Juniper
News Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's online and Windows chief and a key figure in the Yahoo takeover attempt, will become chief executive at Juniper Networks
