Previous DayKeeping your side of the net up.
Blog Few small businesses can afford to lose their net connection for any length of time. Second in importance only to choosing an Internet provider (or two, but more on that in a future post) is making...
Technical measures are required to actually know what data i...
Talkback This step helps focus the mind on what data is owned by a department and where it is but technical measures are required to manage and control the data such that if data is lost then the department...
And on the flip side
Talkback This is the same document that would give the DoJ the authority to grant themselves permission to reuse data collected for one use for a completely different use without reference to parliament or...
First ID cards issued
News The first UK ID cards, issued to people from outside the European Economic Area, rely on visual checks, with scanners for reading the cards unavailable
IBM to offer stamp of approval for cloud services
News Aiming to boost its influence in cloud computing, IBM has announced a validation programme measuring the performance reliability of cloud-based services from any provider
Police seize phone-gun
Blog Italian police have seized a gun disguised as a mobile phone, according to a report on Gizmodo. The phone can hold four bullets, and is powerful enough to kill somebody. Gizmodo made the...
Analysts attack Darling's pre-budget report
News Chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has been criticised for not giving businesses enough notice to change their IT systems to adjust to a cut in VAT
Future Firecrest tops Foreign Office £686m IT spend
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office system has a current budget of £401m, while the Ministry of Justice has revealed a tech bill of £660m
Windows Live, Facebook hit the Xperia X1
Blog Well, obviously you can access this stuff with any browser-toting phone, but nothing beats a good widget. Sony Ericsson has just announced that users of its Xperia X1 handset will get dedicated...
Guide tells 'grey hats' how to avoid legal pitfalls
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a guide on how to avoid breaking the law as a result of ethical hacking
So which is it?
Talkback One of two options: 1 - They heard the outrage from the general population and their own advisers, considered the points raised and decided to ditch the project as a non-starter. 2 - They realised...
Get your filthy hands off my code!
Blog For some years now (well the last half decade at least) various vendors from the Business Intelligence space to the pure-play development behemoths have been talking about bringing in the influence...
RE:IBM To Create The Great Brain Thinking Machine.
Blog Comment Big Blue has an interesting "Autonomic Computing" resource at http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/ I've met the guys who talk about this stuff and it's interesting (I hope) to learn that they way...
US easy target for Chinese cyber-spies, says report
News A report by a US Congress commission says the Chinese can conduct cyber-warfare so sophisticated that the US may be unable to respond
Sony VAIO VGN-Z11WN/B
Review Beautifully designed and reassuringly robust, the 1.5kg VAIO Z11 marries a decent-sized 13.1in. screen with good portability and integrated 3G/HSDPA. It's not flawless, but if you can afford it,...
Lenovo ThinkPads to get text-message kill switch
News Users of select 3G-enabled ThinkPad notebooks will, from the first quarter of next year, be able to remotely disable their machines by sending a simple SMS
Privacy watchdog to get power to fine for data loss
News Justice secretary Jack Straw has proposed the Information Commissioner's Office should also be able to inspect public-sector bodies without prior consent
Scaling in the Cloud - the secret pitfalls
Blog As we move into the cloud, new problems are going to occur. That's standard issue for any new technology, as is one important aspect of the problem – we always end up fighting the last war, not...
Google Android gets Opera Mini 4.2
News Opera's cut-down mobile browser is now available to Android users, as well as users of certain BlackBerry and Windows Mobile handsets
Apple hit with iPhone patent lawsuit
News The company is the target of a US patent-infringement lawsuit concerning the iPhone's ability to display websites reformatted for a mobile device
Google paring back contractor workforce
News The search giant has confirmed 'significant' cuts are on the way for the company's 10,000 contractors
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News Projected costs for the National Identity Scheme are now between £800m and £1.05bn, says home secretary Jacqui Smith, down from earlier estimates of £1.5bn
Darling puts squeeze on gov't IT spending
News A £5bn increase in the government target for efficiency savings, announced by chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling, puts IT spending under pressure
Gartner achieves world's dullest headline
Blog Heartiest congratulations to the analysts at Gartner, who have come up with a title for their latest missive that could excite only the most die-hard mobile industry fanatic. Ready? Here goes... ...
Next IT entrepreneurs nurtured by uni networks
News The government hopes to cultivate home-grown tech entrepreneurs capable of creating the next Facebook or Google, via 'university enterprise networks'
Energizer sings praises of Microsoft hosted services
Analysis For more than three years, the battery maker has had Microsoft running a substantial chunk of its IT operations, and has been pleased with the results
HP posts rise in fourth-quarter sales
News Despite profits falling slightly, CEO Mark Hurd said he is confident the company can weather the economic storm
Yahoo sells shopping site Kelkoo
News The shopping site has been sold to a UK-based private-equity firm for less than €100m, having been bought by Yahoo for €475m in 2004
