Previous DayFigures can be manipulated
Talkback When a desired result is required from a survey, it is easily obtained by avoiding questions that would certainly get a negative, and framing other questions to distort the result. I am sure that...
WiMAX delay
Talkback Why does it take Ofcom so long to get round to doing anything useful. WiMAX is operational in China, Korea and India for around 2 years already, but in the UK we're still asked to pay through the...
Are LCDs really greener than CRTs?
Blog New research this week from the US has shown that levels of a greenhouse gas emitted during the production of LCDs and flat-screen TVs - is actually four times higher than previously thought. ...
T-Mobile, O2 urging customers not to upgrade
News As the credit crunch takes hold, mobile operators are encouraging customers who are at the end of their contracts to take a discounted tariff instead of a new handset
VMware, IDC play virtualisation hardball
News VMware has disputed the way key research into the virtualisation market was undertaken by analysts IDC, and questioned figures that appear to show rapid growth by a competitive product from Microsoft
Microsoft issues patch for potential 'worm hole'
News A rare, out-of-cycle, critical patch is available to address a serious flaw the software maker thinks could lead to a network worm
Do Rootkits affect Macs?
Talkback Or is it just Windows/Linux machines. I opened what turned out to be a 'spam' PDF the other day (breaking the habit of a lifetime) - now I'm wondering if I've let something in.
EU earmarks €55m to tackle illegal web content
News The European Parliament has voted in favour of a proposal backing the next phase of the 'Safer Internet' programme, due to run from 2009 to 2013
Broadband users baffled by 'unlimited' services
News Research has found 'unlimited' broadband continues to confuse UK consumers, with around 90 percent of users failing to understand the limitations on their service
BT cuts landline-to-mobile rates
News The communications and IT firm says its price cuts are in response to the credit crunch, but a BT executive has also suggested people downgrade their mobile contracts
RISC OS for Cortex please
Talkback Be nice if the original OS for ARM chips was ported to these new babies... :-)
Google releases update to mobile Gmail
News Version 2.0 of the Gmail client for mobile devices promises a performance boost and more offline features
Reduced role for Sun co-founder Bechtolsheim
News Andy Bechtolsheim is shifting to a reduced role at the Silicon Valley stalwart as he turns his attention to getting another start-up off the ground
BBC to boost web-TV offering for London 2012
News The corporation has said that, by the end of the Olympics, it wants to do for digital media what the Queen's coronation did for TV
Symantec to identify safe software by 'reputation'
News The company's tech will judge whether an app is unsafe by looking at where it can be found across the database of Symantec users and categorising those machines as safe or otherwise
Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized
News Version 3.0 of the mobile Linux platform has been unveiled, while a mini version has been made available for lower-end phones and emerging markets
Xerox plans layoffs, lowers forecast
News By trimming five percent of the workforce over the next six months, the company expects to save $200m
Microsoft Surface price tag steeper than anticipated
News The software maker is offering developers a chance to buy one of the tabletop computers, but the machines cost well over $10,000
Amazon cloud service out of beta, adds Windows
News The company has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on the list of supported operating systems
WiMax tipped for victory over LTE
News An In-Stat report suggests WiMax may outpace LTE in the short term at least, although other industry observers suggest both can live happily together
Microsoft posts 'fairly good' results, lowers outlook
News First-quarter results narrowly beat analyst expectations, but Microsoft lowered its estimates of PC and server growth for next quarter
London 2012 fibre network a 'model' for UK
News The Olympic Park fibre network and its links to 94 venues across the UK have been touted as the template for a high-speed national network
Intel apologises to Apple, ARM for iPhone attack
News The company has extended the olive branch over claims by two execs that inadequate ARM chips cause the iPhone to be slow
Gov't: ID cards still have majority support
News The Identity and Passport Service says 60 percent of the UK public is in favour of the National Identity Scheme and 24 percent against
Software development from classical, jazz and karaoke to heavy metal
Blog Software application development comes in many flavours, or as we often like to call them ‘methodologies’. There are different styles to suit different people for different reasons – and that’s a...
Open source phones face competition from below
Blog I didn't come away from the Smartphone show this week much wiser about the prospects for open source phones. Android is looming and Symbian is soon-to-be-open. But I did gather one thing: the main...
