Previous DayNo tech recession any time soon!
Talkback Mr Watkins is right, tech has moved beyond luxury status, it is now cetral to people's lifestyles not to mention its importance to businesses. On top of that, tech products dont get affected by...
Symbian worm in the wild
Blog There aren't that many out there, but there's a new Symbian worm in town. Mobile phone viruses are few and far between. According to antivirus company F-Secure, what makes this Symbian worm...
Encryption key legal challenge?
Blog The power of the police to force people to hand over encryption keys may be possible to challenge under human rights law, according to an article on OUT-LAW.com. From the article: "The...
First virus writer arrested in Japan
Blog Under Japanese law writing malicious code isn't illegal, according to antivirus vendor Sophos. Japanese authorities are therefore prosecuting the alleged writer of a particular piece of code, and...
Sunbelt: Small antivirus companies are overwhelmed
News Small antivirus and anti-spyware companies are being snowed under by the amount of malware being produced, according to Sunbelt Software
Marks & Spencer loses 26,000 staff details
News The retailer may face prosecution by the Information Commissioner's Office after the theft of a laptop containing unencrypted data
Novell woos Red Hat developers
News The extension of the openSuse development environment allows apps and other software to be written for rival Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Lenovo to make and sell IBM xServers
News Resellers are expressing doubts over the move, claiming they might go elsewhere if they can't get the IBM badge
OS/2 and the path to freedom
Leader IBM won't update it or liberate it. Its fans should find new ways to free the OS/2
Vodafone 'looking into' 3G femtocells
News The company has become the latest operator to reveal it is investigating technology designed to improve 3G coverage indoors
Microsoft faces a web-standards Acid test
Comment Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie asks how seriously Microsoft's IE8 browser will support an upcoming web-standards test
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News A major upgrade of HTML is in the works but won't emerge for at least two years
Note to exhibitors at 3GSM/MWC
Blog No, not a please-leave-me-alone note like analyst Dean Bubley has recently posted (although if your company does not have any relevance to business tech, then do please leave me alone) but rather...
Nokia wins praise for quarterly results
News Analysts have said Nokia is 'doing everything right' and is now 'as big as Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG added together'
Cracking open Apple's iBook G3
Photo The original clamshell iBook from Apple generated almost as much buzz in the IT world as the iPhone has recently. Mark Kaelin takes a look inside
RE:IBM nixes open source OS/2 - why?
Blog Comment I wonder what OS/2 is still being used for, and if that might have something to do with IBM's reluctance to open-source the code? Perhaps they are afraid of revealing potential security holes? I...
Status Update, Vista to XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog It has been two weeks since I switched from Windows Vista back to Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and two months since I made the same switch on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook...
'Why Linux is inferior to Windows and Macintosh'
Blog It is an attention-grabbing headline for a post, isn't it? Here's the original, on Microsoft's Channel 9 forums. "There is little to no innovation in Linux," says Yorkshire developer vesuvius....
IBM nixes open source OS/2 - why?
Blog IBM has refused an online petition asking it to turn its venerable OS/2 operating system over and make it open source. I'm perplexed by this story, reported on VNUnet. Firstly, I'm stunned to...
Seagate: No tech recession on horizon
Q&A Investors may be panicking, but Seagate chief executive William Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture from the one in the newspapers
ICANN wants independence from US govt
Blog ICANN, the body that oversees the world's domain registries and internet policy, has formally asked the US government to let it be transferred to the private sector [.pdf alert]. It was originally...
UK tech grads get fast-track training scheme
News The Masters-level IT Professional Development Programme aims to help recruits to the industry rapidly build skills and experience
HP releases more 'green' machines
News The PC maker has positioned another launch as eco-friendly, with the release of two desktops, including, allegedly, its first solid-state PC
Students refuse to be 'guinea pigs' for ID cards
News The NUS has attacked government proposals to test the ID card scheme on teenagers opening a bank account or taking out a student loan
NEC PowerMate VL370
Review NEC's PowerMate VL370 is a solid and reasonably priced business PC, although plenty of other vendors offer similar products at similar prices.
