Previous DayOne is one too many!!
Talkback "did claim the number of breaches revealed in the memo showed the system was secure." I fail to understand the reasoning as, to me, one breach of the security shows the system is Insecure. A...
Nasa hacker closer to extradition after CPS refusal
News Gary McKinnon's hopes of avoiding extradition to the US now rest on a judicial review, following a decision by the CPS not to charge him under UK law
Ballmer: Microsoft sees Google as desktop OS rival
News The Microsoft chief expects to see Android providing competition to Windows in the desktop operating-system market
HP Memristor update — time for more Moore's Law
Blog A report from physorg.com points me at a paper in PNAS, where HP researchers say they've mixed up memristors and transistors on the same silicon substrate "to form fully integrated hybrid memory...
Microsoft's secret deals on open source
Talkback Whilst Microsoft surrounds itself in secrecy, one can't help being suspicious. Thoughts such as abuse of monoploy, divide and conquer, embrace and extinguish, 20's style protection racket come to...
HP to sell ProLiant servers with Sun's Solaris
News The manufacturer will bundle Solaris 10, a rival to its own HP-UX operating system, with its ProLiant servers and blade systems
The great British open-source arms race
Comment UK politicians are talking up their commitment to all things open source — but at some point the rhetoric has to stop and be replaced with action, says Mark Taylor
Synology DS209+ NAS Server
Review Although it's expensive and requires networking experience to use, the Synology DS209+ offers excellent throughput and nearly all the features you're likely to need in a small-business NAS server.
CPS refuses Nasa-hacker UK prosecution
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK. Despite growing support for McKinnon from parliamentarians and legal experts, the...
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux patents
News Three of Microsoft's claims in patent infringement suits against the GPS navigation company relate to TomTom's use of the Linux kernel
Finally!
Talkback When we were investigating virtualisation solutions last year, we were flabbergasted to find we'd have to have a Windows machine to manage VMs (we are entirely UNIX in this department)! What on...
Acer demos its 10-inch Aspire One netbook
Video The manufacturer shows ZDNet UK the second generation of its netbook, and explains why the new Aspire One will not come with Linux
Adobe plugs Flash-player hole
News The company has issued a patch for the Flash player vulnerability, as worries over the unpatched Adobe Reader hole mount
Sony, Philips, Panasonic plan single Blu-ray licence
News The independent agency will open mid-2009 and promises lower-cost licensing for Blu-ray discs and players
US gov't shown silver lining of cloud computing
Analysis At a cloud-computing conference, SaaS vendors, federal IT purchasers and others say the financial downturn and a web-friendly president create the perfect climate to get Washington on the cloud
The Problem with People
Blog There is the assumption that the behaviour of people involved in a business process is predictable and consistent. Too many business analysts (mainly Dark Knights –see earlier blog) still expect a...
Cloud guides Salesforce.com to $1bn revenue
News The company says it is the first make $1bn in revenue in a year from cloud computing, but has lowered its forecast for fiscal 2010
VMware moves vCenter to Linux
News All future versions of the company's flagship virtualisation-management software, formerly known as Virtual Center Server, will appear in Linux versions
