Previous DayNo mention of who pays!!
Talkback Our politicians have (occasionally) some excellent ideas and this is, outwardly, one of them. There is at present a fairly good communications infrastructure throughout Europe that has cost a lot...
RE:NeoPwn developer gives Linux device pwn details
Blog Comment Gotta love open source. I wonder if, since the next Nokia internet tablet will probably have cellular network capabilities, we might soon see Nokiapwn devices...
RE:Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 - Good News for Laptop Users
Blog Comment New installs of xorg use xrandr not Xinerama anymore. My desktop has 4 monitors and is 5120x1024. Xrandr has a nasty size limit of about half that size so I could not use Gutsy or Hardy on my...
RE:Skype Roundup - Heart Warming, Heart Breaking
Blog Comment Jamie, I quite enjoy your comments, but I still feel you are a bit hard on Skype. As yet, I use Skypeout for personal, business and conference calls. The quality is lacking at times, admittedly,...
Air-traffic-control glitch hits London area
News An unspecified computer problem caused major disruptions to air traffic in the south east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith has unveiled ID cards for foreign nationals, drawing criticism from opposition parties and campaigners
RE:Ecma: So why is our process suddenly broken?
Blog Comment That's a good point. ECMA has said the process was not bought, because it "did not receive a penny". That doesn't mean it wasn't bought - just that the costs went elsewhere.
Operators abandon faster-porting group
News Ofcom and 3 expressed dismay at the decision by major carriers to suspend the activities of UKPorting, which aimed to speed up the transfer of numbers between networks
NeoPwn developer gives Linux device pwn details
Blog The developer behind the NeoPwn mobile penetration testing device, 'Gino O', has given details of how support for the phone will work, and how he came up with the concept. Gino O got back to me...
Gatwick air traffic control failure
Blog Gatwick airport has suffered a brief loss of air traffic control systems this afternoon. I'm currently sat in Jersey airport, where staff announced there was a "failure of UK air traffic control"....
Not Sold..
Talkback Firefox's range of plugins are too much to make me wonder off - I just love the spell check because my spelling is poor (sometimes)!
The cloud's not ready for desktop virtualisation
Comment Desktop virtualisation is tipped to be one of the next major trends in enterprise IT, but it's severely limited by the current state of LAN/WAN infrastructure, argues TechRepublic's Jason Hiner
Samsung Q210
Review Samsung's Q210 is a trendy-looking 12.1in. notebook with appeal beyond its nominal consumer niche. It's an excellent performer with a great keyboard and plenty of wireless options.
Cisco releases 12 sets of security patches
News The networking giant has published advisories and patches for flaws in the software underlying all of its switches and most of its routers
RE:Here comes the Small Business blog
Blog Comment Having been involved with small businesses in one form or another for 20+ years, I'm still consistently surprised by the mistakes small businesses make when assessing/buying business applications....
Government releases more details of UK ID Card
Blog Not got time to digest this at the moment but here's the information from the government press office on the trial of the ID Card scheme which happened a couple of hours ago: (Home Office) First...
RE:Ecma: So why is our process suddenly broken?
Blog Comment In my opinion, the process is now "broken" because it is being subjected to an amount of pressure, and an abuse, which it has never seen before. Microsoft was dragged, kicking and screaming, to...
Dell: Netbooks won't change shape of PC market
News Company founder Michael Dell expresses doubts about the netbook form factor and discusses the company's push into services, as well as growing customer interest in green IT
Ecma's history with Sun...
Blog I don't have good network bandwidth today, so I'll just pass on another link: nearly ten years ago, it seems Sun regarded Ecma as "accommodating" for its standards publishing requirements. ...
Ecma: So why is our process suddenly broken?
Blog The standard maker Ecma has responded to the harsh criticism it's had from within IBM, among other places. Essentially, people objecting to Ecma's fast track standard process are actually...
Ridiculous Idea
Talkback That a machine that's 17 miles long, has thousands of newly developed parts and relies upon superconducting magnets that need immersion in liquid helium should work perfectly on its first real...
Broadcom chalks up win in Qualcomm patent feud
News A US appeals court has ruled Qualcomm is infringing on two Broadcom patents, also upholding an injunction against Qualcomm selling related products
Businesses urged to harness staff Web 2.0 skills
News A Butler Group report claims employees' Web 2.0 know-how can boost workforce productivity and bring positive changes to businesses
Ultramobile-device sales to match laptops by 2013
News Shipments of devices such as netbooks and MIDs will reach 200 million in five years, to generate £15bn in revenue, according to research
Cisco boosts collaboration-software portfolio
News The company has revamped its Unified Communications offering, turned WebEx into a web-app platform and added functionality to the TelePresence tool
Oracle, Intel team up on cloud-computing tech
News The IT giants are collaborating to improve the efficiency, security and standards-based technology of cloud computing
Google releases final Android SDK
News The new software-development kit can be used to produce software for T-Mobile's G1 and other upcoming Android phones
Mozilla updates fix critical Firefox flaws
News The updates, pushed out automatically to users, also fix numerous lower-priority flaws in Firefox 2 and Firefox 3
Boris Johnson: Let's make London a 'Wi-Fi' city
News London's mayor has called for greater wireless access in time for the 2012 Olympics in London, following the prime minister's plans to fund web access for low-income families
First UK ID Card unveiled
Blog You can either look at this as a pilot which may completely fail or the first beach-head in the government's attempt to get us to all to adopt ID Cards. At 11.30 on Thurs, Home Secretary,...
EU throws support behind wireless-broadband rollout
News EU politicians have backed a package of telecoms measures to help create a wireless broadband service that could work across Europe
HP announces new director to board
News Rajiv Gupta, chairman of chemical company Rohm and Haas, will join HP's board of directors in January
Developers at PDC to get pre-beta Windows 7
News The software giant has confirmed in a blog post that attendees of October's Professional Developers Conference will get an early version of Windows 7
Illustrator CS4: a first look
Preview The ability to handle multipage projects finally provides a reason for users of older versions to update to Illustrator CS4.
Oracle unveils first-ever hardware product
News The company has entered the hardware market for the first time, with a storage server designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid
Photos: Dreamweaver CS4
Photo Take a tour around Dreamweaver CS4's WSIWYG interface.
conCERNed about safety
Talkback "Some have theorised that the black-hole experiments could go wrong with catastrophic results, but Cern has done extensive safety analysis and has repeatedly denied any such threat." ...but it...
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.....
Blog Turns out power was restored at work on Monday but I had an insurance adjuster coming so I didn't go into work until yesterday. Of course everybody had to tell their hurricane tales but one guy...
What Sony Ericsson's up to: Part II
Blog Following on from the announcements referred to in Part I, here's the lowdown on the future tech we got shown by Sony Ericsson, plus a bit more analysis. Project Capuchin - Now we're talking....
What Sony Ericsson's up to: Part I
Blog Things have not been going swimmingly for Sony Ericsson of late. They barely broke even in the second quarter of this year, have had to lay off thousands of workers, and are struggling to introduce...
