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Blog Cloud computing has its elephants. One of the biggest is the threat of your cloud provider disappearing overnight, taking your data with it. Right now, that's an elephant with plenty of PR – with...
RE:I wandered lonely as an unmanaged cloud service
Blog Comment All those wonderful vendors selling "cloud computing" services are just selling server access and what used to be called time-shared computer cycles. Lock-in is the mechanism that makes cloud...
Convict first, ask questions later
Talkback : The presumption of guilt is going forth. Hey, they've suspended the right to a trial by jury of our peers, something rivers of blood were spilt to obtain. In tax law and many other arenas you are...
So they really did it did they?
Talkback I was under the impression that by long convention, no Government was to enter into commercial terms that committed a subsequent government. Well, they're playing fast and loose with the rest of...
Open source routers come to an Internet exchange near us
Blog Vyatta's open source routers are bubbling away, and have a new deployment, not far away as the packet flies: in Telecity, Amsterdam. I think open source is a good bet for router software. It...
Analysts: IE entrenched in the enterprise
News Many businesses would find it difficult to switch from Internet Explorer to rival browsers, due to a Microsoft-software dependency, say analysts
Gov't rules out data-breach notification law
News The government says it won't implement a data-breach notification law, but will increase fines for companies violating data-protection legislation
Apple's knuckles rapped again over latest iPhone ad
News The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a second iPhone advert, ruling that it exaggerated the speed of the device
Lenovo's Ideapad S10e netbook ready for rollout
Photo The PC manufacturer's low-cost subnotebook will go on sale in the UK at the end of November
Gov't plans law to increase data-sharing
News Proposals to give the secretary of state more powers to remove obstacles to data-sharing, have been described as 'incredibly opaque'
Who pays the fine and to whom
Talkback OK so these people can now be fined, who pays the fine when the government departments lose data and to whom do the fines get paid. More lip service from a shambolic government trying to con the...
Old Fujitsu Siemens laptops to be replaced for free
News Buyers of LifeBooks will be able to get a free, new laptop every three years, while Esprimo purchasers are being offered complete repairs and refunds if their machines fail within the warranty period
Micron, Intel move to 34nm Nand flash
News The very small-format, high-capacity 32Gb memory chips should be available soon for use in devices such as cameras and personal music players
Fedora 10 Released
Blog The Fedora Project has released Fedora 10. It comes as a either a Live CD, a set of CDs or a DVD. I have installed from the Live CD on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to work very well....
US judge views Apple and IBM as chip rivals
Analysis The judge behind a preliminary injunction preventing ex-IBM employee Mark Papermaster from working at Apple believes the companies have competing chip businesses
RE:I wandered lonely as an unmanaged cloud service
Blog Comment Don't ya just love the marketing guys in the computing world? Cloud computing sounds really interesting, yet even despite having looked into the Azure toolkit, can't help feeling the world closing...
Samsung and InterDigital settle 3G, 2G patent feud
News Under the settlement, Samsung will receive a licence to use InterDigital technology in all of its 3G related products until 2013
Open source gains from the downturn?
Blog I've been hearing that open source vendors will win when the money gets tight. Is this true, or is it just spin? In the short term, there's no denying that open source companies will suffer,...
Department of Health beats MoD for device losses
News The Ministry of Defence and Department of Health have released the latest figures on the number of their devices lost or stolen
Google admits flouting Apple App Store rules
News Google Mobile uses undocumented techniques, supposed to be off-limits to iPhone developers, to make its verbal search feature work with an iPhone sensor
Ericsson: No UK LTE network before end of 2010
News The telecoms-kit maker's chief tecnology officer says any rollout of a next-generation mobile network in the UK is still years away
Trojans being spread via Google's Orkut
News A spam message on Orkut is disguised as an official email from the social network but the links in the message lead to Trojans, Websense says
Cisco to close offices for four days to cut costs
News The company will temporarily close offices in the US and Canada at the end of the year to help reach its goal of cutting operating expenses by $1bn
