Previous DayDigital Britain: Broadband in every home by 2012
News Lord Carter's Digital Britain interim report confirms plans for universal broadband access, but stays quiet on whether the public sector will help push out next-gen service
Symantec chief tipped for Washington
Blog John Thompson, the outgoing chief exec of Symantec, has been tipped to be Obama's commerce secretary, Reuters reports. The US Secretary of Commerce heads up the Dept of Commerce, the US...
Expert: NHS virus outbreak was 'entirely avoidable'
News Poorly configured antivirus software was at the root of a Mytob virus outbreak at Barts and The London NHS Trust hospitals in November
Privacy activists first to criticise Carter
Blog The first reactions to Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain report have been flooding in, and almost all have been packed with as many fuzzy platitudes as the report itself. Almost. Perhaps...
Fibre-optic firm H2O changes its name to i3
News The company, which specialises in putting fibre-optic cable in sewers to create high-speed broadband networks, is splitting into five divisions under one new name
BA to allow texting on some flights
Blog British Airways is to allow GSM/GPRS-based texting, websurfing and emailing on two of its London-New York flights, as of later this year. The service, provided by OnAir (a joint venture between...
Rural Europe may get €1bn for broadband
News The European Commission has proposed a billion-euro boost for rural broadband across the continent, in a bid to create jobs and stimulate the economy
US economy narrowly avoids hacking disaster (fails to avoid self-made one)
Blog Got to love this. Sophos have just sent out a press release warning about a near miss hack attack on US financial giant Fannie Mae. Apparently a disgruntled employee planned to set off a...
Intel to unify its research in Europe
News The company has outlined a plan to bring its European research together but has not given details on investment in the changes
Storage devices get common crypto standard
News A group of tech heavyweights has agreed to use three cryptographic standards for storage hardware in PCs and datacentres, with the promise of making management easier
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 2
Blog After having written the first part of this series, and being quite happy with the way SimplyMEPIS Linux was working on the HP 2133, I moved on to the last couple of items on the test list... and I...
Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack
Blog Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan is under cyberattack, according to Information Warfare Monitor. The attacks bear similarities to attacks launched by Russia against Estonia and Georgia. Since...
Interim Digital Britain report: First impressions
Blog So, we finally have our hands on Lord Carter's interim report, which has been billed as the biggest shakeup for the UK's knowledge economy since the formation of Ofcom (which Carter, funnily...
All data breaches must be made public
Comment European legislators seem to be about to pass a directive that could make it obligatory to disclose data breaches — but not in every case. That selectivity is a mistake, says EU data tsar Peter...
Intel's Moblin 2 Atom Linux distro goes alpha
Blog The second version of the Intel-led, netbook/MID-centric Moblin distribution has gone into its alpha phase. The Moblin Project made the initial version available for testing on Monday. A key...
Acer plans Linux, SSD version of 10-inch netbook
News Although the initial version of Acer's bigger-screen netbook will be XP-only and loaded with a HDD, the company says a version with Linux and a solid-state drive is coming
iWork '09
Review Intuitive interface design and easy access to useful features make iWork the best office suite choice on the Mac. Although it lacks some of Microsoft Office's advanced options, iWork '09 is an...
Gartner reveals the mobile techs to watch
News The analyst house has named the technologies it believes will play a significant role in shaping the mobile landscape over the next two years
Vista marketing sparks antitrust complaints
News A marketing programme designed to improve the Microsoft Windows operating system has drawn complaints from hardware makers and others
Flaw exposes Chrome, Firefox to clickjacking
News Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability that exposes Google's Chrome browser and Firefox 3.0.5 to a clickjacking attack
Global cost of cybercrime hit $1tn, study finds
News A McAfee study calculated the cost to businesses last year in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing damage from data theft and breaches
