Previous DayRE:IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.
Blog Comment What a bunch of mean dinasours!! You'd think that with all that coding expierience behind them, they could have laid on some knock your socks off graphical journeys, or synthesised some sound...
IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.
Blog Just back from Microsoft's London Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 briefing, held in the very nice Soho Hotel in the heart of London's West End. It was a valuable experience, and one that had everyone...
The need for a punitive deterrent
Talkback This loss, like so many of those that have occurred in recent years, appears to be due to negligence, inadequate supervision and lack of positive control by management. I fear that, until police...
RE:In-Flight VoIP
Blog Comment Interesting subject....I would love to be able to pop on VR glasses and just be surrounded by sky or even sit on the wing of a plane I was in, Just imagine poping out when there s turbulance, a...
RE:Broadband Customers Overpaying By 70%
Blog Comment I expect one way to avoid downtime (in town centres anyway) would be to hop on to the local wi fi network, and run your own encrypter whilst doing so. This is also where a pay as you go mobile...
Museum gets funding to promote the web
News A museum in Bradford that aims to promote understanding of the web's impact on our lives will benefit from funding from the Wolfson Foundation and the government
Linux cryptography attacks seen in the wild
News Secure Shell keys are being compromised and stolen from Linux-based systems, US-CERT has warned
RE:Should a security professional have a legal background?
Blog Comment Mark Surguy of Pinsent Masons LLP, international Law Firm, comments: Perhaps it is lawyers who need technical qualifications rather than the other way round? What is clear is that technological...
RE:JavaScript - a Flash competitor?
Blog Comment The more I think about it, the more sense it makes for the Next Big OS Thing (NBOST) to be heavily virtual. As Microsoft knows only too well, though, decoupling your OS from the hardware only makes...
Does it matter if you are an aardvark or a zebra?
Blog In spam terms, apparently it does. According to Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, if your email address is aardvark at animal.net, you are more likely to receive spam than if...
Photosynth
Blog Yesterday I downloaded photosynth to check it out. Today I took 4 photos of a hot banana pepper plant, from 4 different angles, as they suggest you use at least 3 different angles. It would only...
SaaS industry 'will collapse' in two years
Q&A Lawson Software's CEO argues that the software-as-a-service model is nothing new, and Salesforce.com will lead the market's downfall
Researchers exploit web protocol to hijack traffic
News At the recent Defcon security conference, Alex Pilosov and Tony Kapela demonstrated an attack on BGP, the core internet routing protocol
Lenovo to bring UWB laptops to Europe next year
News The manufacturer will launch ultrawideband-toting notebooks — probably using Wireless USB — in the EMEA region in the first quarter of 2009
Ubiquity for Firefox
Blog A very interesting tool that wraps Web 2.0 functionality up and houses it within the firefox browser. At first the thought of a command line driven tool in this interactive/Drag & Drop era is one...
RE:In-Flight VoIP
Blog Comment Adrian, I couldn't agree with you more, and I think your choice of alcohol and drunkenness is a perfect comparison. As long as alcohol is served on aircraft, there will be those who get drunk and...
RE:In-Flight VoIP
Blog Comment You mention terms of service: yes indeed - it's also illegal to be drunk on a flight let's not forget. Somehow it's funny that AA put this announcement out the week after they started charging for...
RE:Broadband Customers Overpaying By 70%
Blog Comment I just switched from Bulldog (now Pipex) to O2. I was paying over £20 per month for an 8mb connection and now pay £10/month for 16mb. I knew there were cheaper deals for a while but could never...
RE:JavaScript - a Flash competitor?
Blog Comment Vista was thought by MS management to be the "conservative" or "safe" decision for the company's future. I've seen the same "pointy-haired" boss management style before. Instead of getting rid of...
Full disclosure: The only protocol for net security
Leader The big BGP threat to the internet isn't new at all — but a bigger fix is required
Copan and Quantum team up on persistent storage
News Combining Quantum software and Copan's Maid technology, the companies have developed a system for handling the protection of large amounts of storage
RE:Does your computer do what you want it to?
Blog Comment Not too much I can think of at the moment. But it must be able to colour visualise very smoothly.(tick) windows media 11 must play quicktime files, and run smoothly.(tick) To post a link on...
RE:Apple tried open source defence in ad case
Blog Comment It's worse that that! Javascript support on iPhone is some 80 times slower than a typical desktop or laptop computer, which means that it's also less capable at processing Web 2.0 sites. Struggling...
Apple tried open source defence in ad case
Blog The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an iPhone ad that claimed the handset could handle "all the parts of the internet", because it can't - particularly sites using Flash and Java....
Google helps lay submarine cables in Asia, Africa
News The company is reportedly helping to build an undersea cable to bring more internet capacity to Asia, while also looking for partners for an undersea cable to Africa
Physiotherapy Gets Virtual
Blog Patients who need physiotherapy following a stroke or accident could soon be put through their paces in a virtual reality (VR) environment. A very clever person at the University of Portsmouth...
Does your computer do what you want it to?
Blog This was going to be a post about the next update to the new Apple MacBook Pro but it got me thinking that in addition to the computer as a tool postings I am wondering after 15 years of computer...
Firefox tool counters man-in-the-middle attacks
News Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed software to guide Firefox users to safe websites and away from malicious ones
HP completes EDS acquisition
News With the £7.5bn acquisition of EDS finalised, HP hopes to be able to compete head-to-head with IBM's software and services business
RE:JavaScript - a Flash competitor?
Blog Comment @jandler - Unfortunately, "breaking" things that worked in previous releases is exactly what Microsoft did with Vista, and it is one of the biggest things that users have been screaming about. The...
Dialogue Box 4.7: Transcontinental laptop challenge
Video Rupert lands in San Francisco with a non-booting laptop, which Charles tries to fix remotely from London. Then a colleague from down under calls in with a 'crook' notebook. Can Charles banish the...
SnapYap - New Flash-Based Video IM Program
Blog I have just tried out another new Adobe Flash-based video IM program, SnapYap. Like other such flash-based programs, there is no separate program or client to download and install on your...
Microsoft and Immersion settle legal spat
News The companies have called a truce which includes a one-time payment by Immersion to Microsoft for $20.75m, and Immersion's admission to Microsoft's Certified Partner Program
Offshoring trend sparks rise in IT wages
News Mid-tier IT staff are seeing a rise in wages due to the skills shortage caused by offshoring and a lack of students opting for IT courses
Google, Verizon, others sued over voicemail patent
News Patent-holding company Klausner Technologies alleges the companies are infringing patents related to visual voicemail
RE:JavaScript - a Flash competitor?
Blog Comment Microsoft's devotion to legacy code has been a major component of its operating systems since the days of MS-DOS. I doubt anyone's missed that! That's a strategy MIcrosoft has chosen to adopt, but...
Mozilla trials DIY mashups for all
News An experimental Firefox plug-in called Ubiquity has been released that aims to connect the web with language to help users perform common web tasks more easily
Mac-clone maker Psystar to countersue Apple
News The company has said it plans to sue Apple under two US federal laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels
In-Flight VoIP
Blog With American Airlines having started offering Aircell's in-flight internet access, and several other airlines due to introducing soon, articles on using VoIP in flight now abound. Practically...
RE:JavaScript - a Flash competitor?
Blog Comment Microsoft *is* battling their own history but for reason that most of you do not seem to understand or do not want to understand. Microsoft has been and still is the provider of the most dominant...
