Previous DayInside Firefox 3
Video An inside look at what you can expect from the next version of Firefox
Unbelievable!
Talkback Another $100 million dollars! What a total waste of time, money and resources. I wonder if anyone knows just how many SAP programs have been started then dumped and the total cost to date? I know...
RE:Climate Change: We’re All Doomed
Blog Comment As I understand business continuity its taking measures to ensure your business can survive a passing crisis. You'd think climate change is a little too big for any business to be planning its solo...
UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
News The UK may be poised to vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an ISO standard, after previously voting against
Company Memorandum: Watch Your Behaviour!
Blog Apparently employee behaviour is key to improving a company’s information security. A little birdie - who did a survey - told me that UK companies have become increasingly aware of the need to...
Online exchange for phished details exposed
News Security company Finjan claims to have discovered a 'sophisticated' online exchange for stolen credit-card details
Government admits over 850 laptops lost since 2002
News Numerous government departments have revealed a litany of losses of laptops, mobile phones and PDAs in the last five years
The 3G iPhone cometh (and this pun returneth)
Blog Speculation time again... or is it? According to Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, Apple has placed an order for 10m 3G iPhones, apparently to satisfy us pesky Europeans who aren't satisfied with EDGE....
Ah, but is it a smartphone?
Talkback I'd say it's not a smartphone at all, but the first truly mobile computer. In time, with enough smart decisions about how apps work on this new type of device, it will be the only computer much of...
Thin clients credited with big CO2 emission cuts
News The use of thin clients has reduced global CO2 emissions by 166,000 tonnes in 2007, research suggests
if only it COULD be silent
Talkback This is probably the worst thing that could happen to air travel. It's already stressful enough - we all know why: delays; large, confusing airports; too many people in too many queues; luggage...
RE:Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog Comment I think you touched the right point their Adrian. You know that the Mac is not mass market as it doesn't get many virus attacks. Ok, it gets the odd few, but nothing like what the PC gets. It says...
Video-site traffic triples in a year
News With video streaming putting strain on ISPs, research estimates the number of UK web users visiting online video sites has almost tripled
The rebuilt Colossus codebreaker in action
Video Computer expert and former spy Tony Sale demonstrates how a rebuilt version of the WWII codebreaking computer works
RE:A web site that cares how you feel
Blog Comment I agree that this is an extremely interesting, and probably extremely good, innovation. It would be nice to know if there have ever been any statistics gathered when it has been used, to see if it...
I agree...there's a conspiracy
Talkback All the experts have pointed out that nothing in the iPhone is revolutionary, and there are no hardware or software features that didn't already exist on other smartphones. The only thing new with...
ODF supporters hold 'Document Freedom Day'
News OpenDocument Format supporters across the world have tried to raise awareness about the implications of formats no longer being supported by proprietary software
Mozilla fixes critical Firefox, Thunderbird flaws
News The organisation has fixed seven vulnerabilities in the latest release of Firefox, with SeaMonkey and Thunderbird also affected
Video IM / VoIP - Where are we now?
Blog I started this blog to talk about Video IM and related issues. While I have wandered here and there, I've always come back to that, because it is what I care about. I think it's time to take a...
Asus releases Eee PC software-development kit
News The company hopes an SDK tailored to the popular Linux-based subnotebook will encourage third-party application development
Complexity of voting procedure
Talkback We have had some reaction to this story from Ditesh Kumar, one of the OpenMalaysia bloggers, who maintains the OOXML voting table in the story. Hi, I, along with other OpenMalaysia bloggers,...
Silent mode...
Talkback This works *so* well in the cinema, doesn't it? A little message telling people to turn their phones off or to silent is all it takes. Or not. While it's about time the "powers that be" admitted...
Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC
Comment The iPhone is inching towards the enterprise. So why has Apple limited it so badly?
Government to forge new cybercrime policies
News The Home Office will meet with law enforcers to develop strategies for tackling e-crime, but has not yet agreed to fund a Policing Central E-Crime Unit
Heathrow fingerprinting plans 'temporarily delayed'
News The privacy implications of fingerprint checks at the airport are to be further considered, following a meeting with the information commissioner
Ofcom clears in-flight mobile services for take off
News The telecoms regulator has approved tech enabling in-flight mobile-phone services on UK airlines, bringing calls from on high a step closer
A web site that cares how you feel
Blog Every so often, you see something that provokes a "But of course! Why has nobody done this before?". Sometimes that's a big and clever thing, like the first time you sit at a graphical web browser...
