Previous DayDoes Facebook rot your brain? Obviously not, but...
Blog Last week the ever-reliable Daily Mail ran possibly its most absurd headline ever: How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer. The Wail, which it pains me to say is the second-most-read...
This is a spoiler
Talkback Your cynicism is well founded in my view. This announcement is a classic spoiler tactic and a direct result of the Tory party's recent pro-OSS policy announcements. Now Labour can claim, as they...
RE:The Problem with Clouds
Blog Comment You're right that if you're going to rely on a cloud service to run your business, you need to know what happens when the service fails. That tends to be more of a contractual issue than a...
Worse and worse
Talkback "The breaches were not necessarily someone purposely going on there and checking something they shouldn't," the DWP spokesperson said. "They could be inadvertently clicking on information." The...
Apple's Safari 4 shows off speed, beauty and brains
Video Apple makes great claims for Safari 4 Beta. See how those claims stack up against its rivals
Memo reveals multiple breaches of ID card database
News The system that will store citizens' information for the ID card scheme has been breached 33 times by local-authority staff, a Department of Work and Pensions memo has revealed
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News Terrorism law reviewer Lord Carlile has joined a growing number of parliamentarians and legal experts calling for Gary McKinnon to be prosecuted in the UK rather than the US
Google announces pricing for App Engine use
News The cloud-computing foundation is growing more mature, as those wanting to use it to house web applications can pay to get more capacity
Panasonic Toughbook Executive CF-T8
Review This 12.1in. ultraportable updates the CF-T7, but some key features are still missing, notably a wide aspect ratio screen, an optical drive and a webcam. If you need ruggedness and a touch-screen,...
The Problem with Clouds
Blog Availability and Security, you can’t have too much of either. Yesterday’s Gmail outage http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39617755,00.htm brought to light the issue that will blight...
Measurement madness
Blog I recently finished writing my review of the Panasonic Toughbook Executive CF-T8. While running through the notebook specifications I, of course, noted the weight. 1385g. That’s pretty precise....
Novell, VMware push virtual appliances on Suse Linux
News A new partnership aims to help software companies develop Suse Linux Enterprise-based virtual appliances that are tailored to VMware's ESX platform
RE:UK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on...
Blog Comment Andrew - Good Heavens, is there really a "Minister for Digital Engagement"? I shudder to think so - and even more so that the current minister's name is Watson... I swear, I am not related... In...
RE:Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog Comment The one common item in this entire discussion is that once a group of people or an enterprise has trained its personnel to use a particular OS and set of tools, there is extreme inertia preventing...
Government promises more open-source use
News The government has announced its policy on open-source software, and says it will attempt to avoid vendor 'lock in' and save taxpayers' money
A tour of the highlights at TechFest 2009
Photo At its annual TechFest event, Microsoft gives its researchers the opportunity to show off what they have cooking in the lab
RE:Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog Comment That's funny, because my wifes mega corp are making the jump to XP over the next few weeks! The thing is XP is the performance operating system. It's a known quantity, it just works. However, in my...
Not so simple
Talkback I can see a number of problems with this approach. The first is, how do you determine a program is safe? It is quite possible to write some malicious code that only goes bad after (say) 10,000 data...
Microsoft to launch experimental search site
News The company has shown several projects at TechFest aimed at giving it a better chance of competing with Google, including the Viveri search site for trying out new ideas
Attackers target unpatched flaw in Excel
News Windows users are warned to avoid opening suspicious attachments as Microsoft races to roll out a fix for a security hole in Excel
Google seeks to join EC's Microsoft antitrust case
News The search giant says it has applied to help the Commission prove antitrust charges related to Microsoft's dominance of the web-browser market
