Previous DayImplementing A Flexible Working Plan
Blog After Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda, flexible working will soon be widely available to as many as 4.5 million extra parents with teenagers. This move from the...
RE:Windows 7? No arm in it
Blog Comment When personal computers were new, we all needed them desperately despite cost and hassles, to empower us as individuals. Business and individuals were at the mercy of Microsoft, and had to buy...
Too nieve
Talkback You have an issue with the comment poorly written standard. I have to say that if you had tried to read this thing you soon see the problems. The whole thing has obviously been put together hastily...
But How Reliable?
Talkback Having tried IE7, Safari and Firefox, I have found Firefox to be the most reliable - crash the least often. I had so many problems with Safari in crashing, difficulty printing and opening PDFs that...
NERC gets Aurora slap on the wrist
Blog A major US energy overseer has been boxed around the ears by a US policy maker over its handling of a vulnerability in US critical national infrastructure security. US Representative James...
I'll stick to the mouse for now!
Talkback Multitouch is good for certain settings like tablet PCs in the news room or social settings etc, the home? am not too sure, i can't imagine fiddling with both hands on the screen just to enlarge a...
Windows 7? No arm in it
Blog The first thing I thought of, when watching the video of Windows 7's new multitouch interface was 'oh no, not again'. Not because it looks like the iPhone's interface scaled up (although, with...
Ethics? Is that near Sussex?
Blog Embargoes are tricky things. Embargoes are rules that some journalists live by, or not. The choice is up to them. Officially, embargoes are agreements that a journalist and a subject (company,...
Whitelisting: The new blacklisting?
Video Security industry figures at the AusCERT 2008 conference discuss whether whitelisting offers a solution to the problem of malware prevention
What we know about Windows 7
Preview Microsoft is remaining tight-lipped about the next version of Windows, due in late 2009 or early 2010: ZDNet.com's Redmond-watcher Mary Jo Foley summarises what we do know.
BCS joins European e-skills push
News The British Computer Society has joined an organisation that brings together EU industry and public-sector bodies to promote IT skills
Cisco revamps enterprise mobility architecture
News The 3300 Mobility Services Engine lies at the heart of the newly rebranded Cisco Motion strategy, and comes with open APIs for a wide developer ecosystem
RE:PortableApps.com
Blog Comment I'd love to run Linux off a USB stick at The Ministry, but they're too locked down to grant me access to the BIOS, so I'm stuck with Windows-flavoured PortableApps.com :( btw, I did actually...
140 million copies of the operating system were sold.
Talkback Can these numbers be trusted? How many new computers sold were reverted back to XP, upgraded to MAC OS, or Linux? These numbers can be adjusted to fit M$ needs, and are not etched in stone....
Simplicity, kludges & that’ll do
Blog A few years ago, I read an excellent A List Apart article called ‘The Dao of Web Design’. The author, John Allsopp, called for a flexible and simplified approach to web design; in essence, letting...
Google Mini gets a feature boost
News The search appliance has had file system access control, source biasing and date biasing added, as well as support for six more languages
Flash attack compromises 20,000 websites
News Symantec has warned of websites being compromised by Chinese domains hosting an exploit for an unpatched Adobe Flash Player flaw
Truphone enables internet calls over GSM
News The mobile-VoIP company now offers international internet telephony routed through a local number, and says it will soon unveil a client for the iPhone
Oh please...
Talkback Almost everything about this comment bothers me, so I'll deal with it piece by piece: "poorly written standard" Says who? Possibly a MINORITY of the standards approval body, since the standard was...
Mac-clone company offers custom updates
News Psystar has begun distributing Apple's own updates, as well as bug fixes, to tweak Mac OS X running on generic hardware
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring
Review The latest version of Mandriva is a competent and well-implemented desktop release with lots to commend it to those with some Linux know-how.
Security experts look to 'whitelisting' future
News With the existing blacklisting techniques for preventing malware failing to solve the problem, taking the reverse approach may be the answer
Companies told to disclose data breaches
News The EU's online security body is calling for mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses
Facebook confused about the way forward
Blog Have a number of recent announcements reduced Facebook's usefulness to members and also derailed any prospects of realising its estimated value? To date, you cannot deny Facebook's rise has...
Judge: Dell engaged in fraudulent practices
News Dell disagrees with the ruling, which comes a year after the original case was filed against the computer maker and its financial services arm
RE:A blur between applications & content… really?
Blog Comment Adrian, Speaking of blur, this little piece of copy from the Citrix website is a beauty: '....will help manage, monitor, measure and control all dimensions of application access to make more...
Google faces £40m copyright demand
News A group representing Belgian newspaper publishers is demanding Google pay damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant linked to and cached news stories in violation of copyright law
Windows 7 to include multitouch interface
News Microsoft says the technology, which is expected to arrive in late 2009, will work with existing touchscreens
Seamless Saudi Software
Blog As a former resident of the United Arab Emirates I’m always interested in what’s going on in the Gulf, especially when it comes to technology as my work out there was largely with the region’s...
Free?
Talkback Why should it be free? Why should such a program, that has taken many years to develop and considerable money to build, be free for anyone to use? I don’t understand why people want technology...
