Previous DayCS3 = Rip off.
Talkback >>it suggested that the discrepancies between UK and US prices were the result of call centres being more expensive to run in Europe, along with the cost of putting on the Adobe Live customer...
RE:A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff d...
Blog Comment ....Yes I know what you mean. The cooling thing, hmmm....so it seems we may be dealing with complacency here, again the legislation is all there concerning the noise levels, the law just needs to...
Back from Zurich...
Blog ... and I think I'm recovering. There is something very odd about a place where I can take in an IBM press conference - IBM, for heaven's sake - where the presenter says "This is a nanobot we're...
RE:VISA helps Facebook to woo small businesses
Blog Comment I can see where its a win for Facebook, but where is it a win for Visa, are they just looking for friends? "There will also be a facility for small business owners to meet others in a similar...
Justice minister urges overhaul of gov't data handling
News Michael Wills has called for the government to handle data transactions as carefully as financial transactions
Update: Tech charity says could have saved many lives
Blog Just received this update quote, to an earlier blog , from Jean-François Cazenave, president of Telecoms Sans Frontieres, commenting on the fact that the organisation announced today that it has...
Dell trumpets green moves, Greenpeace begs to differ
Blog The computer maker has announced today that is has become the first in its industry to achieve 80 Plus Gold-certification for a server product. Dell claims this is the latest sign that it's on its...
Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 debuts with Acrobat 9
News The latest version of Acrobat makes it possible to turn multimedia web pages into PDFs, but costs over twice as much in the UK as in the US
MoD announces data-protection action plan
News The ministry has published a plan of how it intends to meet 51 data-policy recommendations made as part of review into the loss of MoD laptops
Systemic failure blamed for HMRC data loss
News Two reports have found the loss by HMRC of 25 million child-benefit claimant details was 'entirely avoidable'
Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft
Q&A Preparing to step down as Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates discusses how Microsoft grew to its present stature and the challenges that lie ahead
Tech charity quits Burma following government blocks
Blog I have just received an update that Telecoms Sans Frontieres, a charity that specialises in setting up telecoms equipment in disaster zones has quit Burma in the face of repeated attempts to block...
Interesting archives and microfiche madness
Blog To be honest I don’t find archives interesting do you? I remember my work experience job at 16 years old when I was despatched to our local government admin offices to work on their microfiche unit...
Microsoft Hyper-V ready to go?
Blog Our colleagues at ZDNet US are reporting that Microsoft's long awaited virtualisation management tool – or hypervisor – may be released to manufacturing tomorrow. According to Microsoft...
Information commissioner to act against HMRC, MoD
News The privacy watchdog will serve enforcement notices against two government departments over 'deplorable failures' to safeguard data
Virgin Media loses 3,000 customers' details on CD
News The telecoms company claims to have contacted the 'vast majority' of customers whose personal and banking details were lost on an unencrypted CD
RE:VISA helps Facebook to woo small businesses
Blog Comment I think Ian Hendry's comments are correct. People visit social networking sites to find new friends, share experiences and also discover old friends; very rarely to do business. The mindset of the...
First Significant Disappointments with Linux
Blog I've run into the first significant problems with Linux on my laptops. I had pretty much decided to go with a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu setup on my main laptop (S6510), the same as what I am currently...
Windows 7 due Jan 2010 - we know!
Blog Much hoopla on the intarwebs about a letter sent out on Monday from Bill Veghte, senior vice president of online services and Windows Business Group, to MS's customers. The letter reiterates...
Ofcom chairman to step down
News David Currie, who became the first chairman of the regulator in 2002, will relinquish his post after Easter next year
VISA helps Facebook to woo small businesses
Blog Interesting news this week that VISA has signed a deal with Facebook to offer services to small businesses on the latter's social network. The first 20,000 businesses signing up to "friend" VISA...
Sourcefire: Don't Snort at open-source security
Interview Martin Roesch, the man behind the Snort open-source intrusion-detection technology, talks about the latest version and how Sourcefire plans to avoid being eaten up by Barracuda
Why should anything change!?
Talkback Steve Ballmer has been running the show way before Bill even hinted of his departure from the company helm. But I suppose as long as the media wants to make a mountain out of this particular mole...
IBM, ETH Zurich to build joint nanotech research lab
News The Swiss university and chipmaker's joint $90m investment marks a major move forward for industry and academic collaboration
Life at Microsoft in the post-Gates era
Analysis With Bill Gates preparing to step down as Microsoft chairman, analysts and observers disagree on the impact his departure will have
Windows XP SP3 - I'll Join the Chorus
Blog Here comes yet another SP3 lament. As an individual end user, I try to keep my laptops up to date via Windows Update, or Microsoft Update, as appropriate. As I have mentioned previously, both my...
Universal Imaging Utility 3.5
Review Universal Imaging Utility is an excellent utility that could prove invaluable to larger businesses looking to reduce the time required for image creation and deployment. However, the software has...
RE:A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff d...
Blog Comment Great comment Roger, couple of things back: But isn't cooling part of the bloomin' problem? I keep being told datacentre managers are all for sensible redesign of the spaces, with hot and cold rows...
Google faces $1bn damages in trade-secret lawsuit
News Software-development company LimitNone has accused Google of reneging on a partnership and misappropriating trade secrets for Google Apps
Canonical releases Ubuntu MID Edition
News Ubuntu's commercial sponsor has released the first publicly available developer edition of the Linux distribution for mobile internet devices
NHS misses data-encryption target
News A number of NHS health trusts are expected to be months late in meeting a target to encrypt all data on non-secure machines
Sick Puppy Redo
Blog I generally follow a dispassionate investigative process when trying to discern what happened when a project goes bad. Although its a low priority item, it gets done simply because I'd like to...
Zoom
Talkback FireFox 3 AUTOMATICALLY saves the Zoomed setting you set on each website so that when you go back to that site it will play the site back at the Zoom setting you previously viewed it at. Each...
Nanotechnology - small wonder it's coming
Blog OK – end of play, following a morning at the IBM Zurich labs and an afternoon at ETH Zurich, one of Switzerland's leading universities. It counted Einstein, Roentgen and Pauli among its physicists,...
