Previous DayDell reportedly reboots smartphone plans
Blog After a poor response from operators, Dell has abandoned its initial designs for Windows and Android smartphones, reports say. The reports are based on a note issued by Kaufman Brothers analyst...
Did I get it? You .tel me
Blog The .tel TLD finally went live today, in a proper, non-sunrise-period sort of way. .tel is an interesting beast - it offers its users a communications hub, rather than a website per se. The...
IBM and Wyse lead thin-client revival
News Energy saving is on the agenda for IBM, as it signs up the thin-client specialist to deliver terminals to its Global Services division
EC calls for shorter number-porting times
News Switching phone operator should take no longer than a day, as different porting times distort competition, telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has declared
Maybe.....
Talkback I've seen too many spy movies recently but real cyber criminals will not be using facebook email msn to plot the next big act of terrorism..... if they then thye deserve ot get caught... They are...
VMware shows mobile-based virtual management tool
News The company has given a technology preview of tools that could help administrators manage office systems from their mobile phones
Security experts warn of mobile-conferencing risks
Analysis Mobile videoconferencing should be taken as seriously as the desktop in terms of security, say experts
Facebook attacks gov't web-monitoring plans
News Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly says government proposals to track all social-networking traffic data would be unnecessary, impractical and possibly bad for business
ooVoo Releases Mac version 1.7
Blog ooVoo has released verion 1.7 of their video chat program for Mac. I may be a bit "ahead of the system" here, because I haven't seen a press announcement of it yet, but the download is available...
typical BT
Talkback why can't BT go ahead and start upgrading the rural areas first? all the major cities in this country already have a fast broadband connection, with BT or Virgin, so why upgrade them to have a...
Bletchley Park hosts chip concert
Video Computer musician Matthew Applegate explains how Bletchley Park computers were used to make music at a concert
Novell releases Suse Linux Enterprise 11
News The latest version of the enterprise Linux distribution includes a full runtime environment for Microsoft .NET applications
Monochrome font rendering in GNOME
Blog Your starter for 10... This is an open question to Ubuntu/GNOME users -- I like to use a non-anti-aliased font (specifically ProFontWindows) when coding in my favourite text editor. However, I...
Report: Fake antivirus scams pulling in profits
News Compromising legitimate websites and redirecting visitors to rogue antivirus sites is a lucrative business, according to a report from security firm Finjan
Sony Ericsson's top US exec to step down
News Najmi Jarwala will leave just as the handset maker gets set to post losses amid falling demand for its phones
Is Sun's public cloud developer philanthropy, or strategic positioning?
Blog During last year’s JavaOne event I filed a short report detailing the goings on during Sun’s pre-show CommunityOne day. Almost a year on, the company has just wrapped up another CommunityOne...
Oracle acquisition to boost health-science unit
News The company has announced plans to acquire Relsys, which develops drug-safety and risk-management applications
BT reveals first locations for super-fast broadband
News Openreach will deploy fibre-to-the-cabinet to 29 UK exchanges from next year, bringing speeds potentially as high as 60Mbps within reach of 500,000 homes and businesses
Broken Windows Part 3
Blog As I reported to Roger et al, the Windows XP Pro/SQL Server 2005 system that is part of my Windows XP Embedded kit now also has the debugger window BUG. And the only thing that happened was that I...
RE:Rights group attacks 'database state'
Blog Comment Actually, I thought common sense was conspicuous by its absence with this administration and, equally, that proportionality is certainly not the order of the day either. Nice to read a rational...
