Previous DayIntel counter-attacks EC over antitrust claims
News The chipmaker is asking for the EC to obtain documents from AMD, the complainant in the antitrust dispute, and wants the Commission to pay its costs
Microsoft adds malware detection to web tool
News The software company has updated its Live Search Crawl Issues tool to indicate whether malware might be on a crawled website
Yes it is, and that's the way it should stay
Talkback Yes, the Internet is a lawless place, and thank god for that too. The reality is that with encrypted communications and TOR networks, criminals who know what they're doing will still be able to...
Ex-Nato chief: Business systems vulnerable to attack
Video Lord George Robertson, former defence minister and Nato chief, advises businesses to run exercises to see how they would respond to cyberattack
RE:5 Low Cost Things You Can Add To Your Website To Attract Mor...
Blog Comment Great post. How about relevant RSS feeds displayed on your site? Or your Twitter feeds? I think it is also worth adding widgets to your site that link people o profiles you have on social...
EC approves Ericsson, STMicro joint venture
News The deal sets up a business to provide wireless platforms for handsets and semiconductors for mobile communications
How Microsoft plans to make its mark in CRM
Q&A The company is well placed to take the lead in the CRM arena with its on-demand and packaged software — not to mention a $1bn annual infrastructure budget — says Microsoft's Brad Wilson
Production and distribution are not the same
Talkback Interesting article, althought the author seems to confuse production with distribution. In fact, it takes an enormous bit of time to code new software. Once that's over and the revisions are set...
RE:Keep your code clean to make it green
Blog Comment Thanks Rog & 64BITZ, I have to say that I don't think I've ever bothered covering enviro issues before... although I do like a good lentil burger if there's plenty of chilli on the side. I think...
Mail is still blowing in the wind....
Talkback My brother's first job was as a human back-up for an internal pneumatic mail system, and banks and hospitals still use "Lamson tubes". There's an article here about the technology...
Vodafone Foundation gives £100k to Congo relief
Blog The Vodafone Foundation has committed £100,000 to the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) for relief efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Fighting in the eastern DRC has displaced...
A look at Skyfire's Web 2.0 mobile browser
Photo The latest beta release of the browser, already available to US and Canadian users, has arrived in the UK
Life before email: A look back at the 'vacuum post'
Photo Germany's high-speed vacuum-post system used a form of packet-switching almost a century before the internet was conceived. ZDNet UK went beneath the streets of Berlin to find the last remnants of...
Ashdown: Internet is a 'lawless space'
News Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, has warned of the increasing threat from cyber-terrorism, and called for a co-ordinated international response
Mobile broadband is 'the only redundancy'
Blog This morning I went to a roundtable hosted by Easynet Connect, the SME-oriented ISP that is part of BSkyB. The topic of conversation was "Achieving Quality Internet Today", and the chat was at...
RE:Keep your code clean to make it green
Blog Comment So, just wearing my lentil sandals while I write my next killer application isn't enough? This enviro stuff really gets on my nerves and the reason it gets on my nerves is that the politicians are...
RE:More cloud tales - what happens on rainy days?
Blog Comment Cloud computing & services are named exactly right. A lot of hot gas. Big billowy bags of vapors floating around with no definable shape maintained mostly by effusive emissions of salesmen....
Birmingham to fund web access for 1,800 families
News Aiming to boost employment and education prospects, the city council has approved £2.47m in funding for PCs and web connections
Gmail 'vulnerability' revealed as phishing scam
News A probe into reports that a vulnerability was being used to hijack domains has uncovered a scheme to trick users into revealing sensitive information
a welcome addition
Talkback This is a welcome addition to the professional development agenda, as it will help to improve the understanding of best practice guidelines for managing large outsource deals. All too often,...
Yahoo, Microsoft outperform US search growth
News US web searches increased by seven percent in October, with Yahoo and Microsoft seeing even larger gains, says ComScore
Three-year sentence for software fraud
Blog A Wolverhampton man has been sentenced to three years in prison for illegally copying and then selling software and DVDs worth a possible £1m. Steve Adams bought an apartment in Spain, a Range...
Spam volume rises despite hosting-company closure
News Two weeks after hosting provider McColo was shut down, the volume of spam is increasing again as stranded botnets connect to new domains
EC: European IT research is too 'fragmented'
News In a speech at the ICT 2008 event in Lyon, commissioner Viviane Reding told delegates it was 'not normal' that the EU had no universities highly ranked for engineering and computer science
London 2012's tech backbone to be trimmed
News A focus on 'streamlining' the IT infrastructure follows warnings that the economic conditions for delivering the Games will be the toughest outside of wartime
Lycos Europe to shut up shop
News Faced with declining revenue and mounting losses, Lycos Europe aims to close its portal and web-hosting business and seek a buyer for other operations
Microsoft warns of worm exploiting Windows flaw
News A security hole in Windows for which Microsoft released a patch last month is being exploited by a worm and bots, says the software maker
MPs hit by Office 2003, Word 2007 incompatibility
News Microsoft is working with Westminster IT chiefs to resolve politicians' complaints that they are unable to read some correspondence
GPU vs CPU: wrong battle, wrong war
Blog Intel is out on the road, preaching a new way of looking at processors. Well, it's not so new - it's a repackaging, in shinier polygons, of what has most recently been called the CISC vs RISC...
Back to school with Sun
Blog This week I’ve been able to attend a Java SE training course at Sun’s Camberley campus. The primary reason I am here is that my better half is studying the course, so I figured this would be a...
