Previous DayUK ATC's bad air day - their circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Blog This weekend, with commendably little fuss, the Air Traffic Control unit at West Drayton, near to Heathrow, unplugged their headsets and moved en-masse to brand new digs in Swanwick, close to...
My 19" Rack - Phase 1 - Building the frame
Blog This project started off as being a cheap way to have a 19″ rack in which to mount my growing amount of equipment and future projects. It turned out to not be as cheap as I’d hoped, and it’s...
The lightweight Linux alternatives
Tutorial Desktop customisation in Linux is very flexible; from the ultra-modern KDE and GNOME window managers to with the likes of Fluxbox and AfterStep, there's a Linux desktop to suit everyone. Jack...
E-books on your Mobile
Talkback I am now on my third book being read from my Nokia mobile. This is the reason Kindle will not succeed, we already carry too many things with us... Laptops, PDAs, Palmtops, Smartphones, Notebooks...
Skype must 'rebuild trust' after number debacle
News An analyst has warned of the difficulty Skype faces in rebuilding its business customer base after it withdrew thousands of SkypeIn numbers with just a month's notice
Tech planning for a minor disaster
Case Study Law firm Irwin Mitchell found out last summer that disruptions don't have to be catastrophic to test IT business-continuity plans
Windows Mobile Pocket Excel Must Die
Blog Recently I have been looking into improving the way in which the guys I have in the warehouse scan serial numbers for one of our client’s phones. My main goal was to be able to see how many were...
Doctors losing faith in NHS IT
News Support for the National Programme for IT is waning among doctors, with most critical of its costs and implementation, Medix research claims
Femtocells may solve operators' 3G woes
News Operators can cut costs by using femtocells, instead of more base stations, to boost indoor network coverage, claims an Analysys report
Can Linux forget desktops and servers?
Blog While Linux might be able to gain share at the expense of the still-unpopular Vista, it's possible that tired old PCs aren't that important anyway. There's a whole lot of other platforms out...
Definition of irony? A teleconference conference
Blog A couple of years ago, I was invited to an IBM press junket to Germany. Nothing wrong with that – press junkets are what journalists get to make up for being paid a salary roughly equivalent to...
Review begins into HMRC data loss
News The Poynter Review's first report on the loss of benefits data by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs is expected in December
Cracked it in one - outsourcing!
Talkback The giveaway is that the data had "already been extracted by EDS". If the service had been inhouse the data would have been generated simply by amending the database parameters but thanks to the...
Techno-Economics
Blog I haven’t spent much time reading the Economist since I studied the subject for my degree. Somehow chipsets, software and keyboards appealed to me rather more in the long run than the doubtless...
Fully equipped: the mobile professional
Buyer's Guide Do you spend a lot of your working life out of the office? If so, check out our selection of the best kit to take out on the road.
concerns about the migration to Vista
Talkback When you tie in the cost of upgrading all your hardware just to be able to run VISTA, and the training costs for personnel, then companies have a legitimate reason for not upgrading, and...
Transport for London to trial 'Oyster' phone
News Reports suggest that a Nokia handset will be used as a substitute for the Oyster travel card in upcoming trials
Apple QuickTime zero-day flaw 'extremely critical'
News Working exploit code, allowing remote control of an affected system, is in the wild for a flaw in the latest versions of QuickTime, Secunia has said
Inmarsat satellite to boost UK comms
News The company has won a European Space Agency contract to become the operator of a satellite supporting a new generation of mobile tech
RE:Reflections on a website, Post- Fowl-Feast
Blog Comment Ponders ... "If linking to a seperate external CSS over-ridingt he defaults would work" Generic styles, wow that just sounds appealing, but then considering the other end of the scale, the 'late...
Virtual worlds driving move to e-payments
News Gartner believes the rise of virtual worlds and the costs of processing cash are both contributing to the future use of e-currencies
"Android on notebooks" sounds interesting, Google please mak...
Talkback I hate developing on emulators. The articles's mentioning the option of running the Android platform on notebooks made me think: Wouldn't make all our dust-covered 333Mhz notebooks make great...
What's Going on at Skype?
Talkback What in the world is really going on at Skype? Have they just decided that they have too many toes, and are trying to shoot them off one at a time? The list of gaffes and blunders is impressive:...
CIOs: UK data laws unfit for purpose
News A CIO panel has warned that current data-protection laws are insufficient, calling for better security in bodies with access to critical data
Weekend Detour, Vista to XP
Blog I had planned on getting ooVoo installed, and making a first report about it this morning. Those plans got put on hold when my frustration level with Vista on this laptop finally reached the point...
