Previous DayUnlocked iPhones go on sale at Play.com
Blog Play.com is now offering UK customers unlocked iPhones, regardless of whether or not they are an O2 subscriber. Our sister site CNET UK is reporting that the handsets are usable on any UK...
Why virtualisation is struggling to keep up
Comment The relentless increase of processors per chip will rapidly reach a point well beyond the levels for which key software has been engineered, says Carl Claunch
Home Office responds to Facebook criticism
Blog The Home Office has given a response to Facebook's assertion that monitoring all communications on social-networking sites would be overkill. The Home Office sent me a statement yesterday...
European data-roaming caps agreed
News A committee of the European Parliament and Council have agreed a maximum wholesale rate for data usage while travelling across borders within the EU
Just like the Government
Talkback I agree, The government seams to have the resources but hand in hand with that seams to have totally stupid i.t consultants. £224m is a totally ludicrous amount to spend on a database, for the...
Google rolls out changes to aid complicated searches
News By checking other web pages for related content as a search is performed, Google says it can handle complicated queries better
Outdated computers cause backlog for the taxman
News Computer systems dating from the 1980s are contributing to a huge backlog of people who may not be paying the right amount of tax, a committee of MPs has found
Dell Latitude E6500
Member Review Have to admit to holding off on buying the E Series. After playing with a couple of customer machines, i knew the time was right to upgrade. Picked up an outlet machine for a great price and am...
Skype handles around 8pc of int'l voice calls
Blog The telecoms analyst and statistic firm TeleGeography has released its latest data about international long-distance voice calls, and claimed that the VoIP company Skype now handles 8 percent of...
Worm targets Linux home routers
News A botnet built of consumer DSL devices and used to launch an attack against a blacklisting service may still be evolving, according to the Sans Institute
RE:TomTom joins Linux protection group
Blog Comment Now that they have access to help from a lot of large companies, they should be able to stand up to MS. Maybe they can force MS to show the code that Linux supposedly is infringing. Or, maybe they...
Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News The organisation has honoured the Creative Commons group and Postfix creator Wietse Venema for their contributions to the free-software movement
Seagate gives small businesses some Armor
News The company's new BlackArmor network-attached storage products are being pitched at the low end of the SME market
Open source protects the innocent bystanders in corporate battles
Blog While the negotiations and prevarications over the IBM purchase of Sun Microsystems continues, all the rest of us can do it sit and wait to see what happens. I don't really see what IBM will get by...
Apple demos iPhone copy and paste
Video Senior vice president of iPhone software, Scott Forstall, demonstrates how iPhone users will soon be able to copy and paste text and images
Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza
News Pixazza hopes to make money by enlisting people to tag photos with links that let web surfers buy the products shown, while publishers also get a cut
Security flaws halt work on child-protection database
News Computer specialists are working to fix security holes in the £224m ContactPoint database, which will contain the personal details of 11 million children
RE:Netbooks turn into Androids
Blog Comment Sure -- if that's what you need, then don't buy a netbook without an office suite. There may be other people that don't need that level of functionality, and just want a large communications...
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News 3M and nCipher have been listed as providers to the early stage of the National Identity Scheme
Dell aims to boost server share with new products
News The company pushes out a host of new enterprise products in an attempt to win over IT departments with integrated services and hardware
