Previous DayWeb site creators... how do they 'opt in'?
Talkback The one party that Phorm, BT (and BCS) have ignored is the web site owner. All the more surprising because the people who create web sites will include many BCS members. How do they opt in to...
RE:Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment I see the problem of parallel computing as a chasm. On this side, we're stuck with lots of old ideas which don't benefit much from parallelism: on the other, there's a whole new world of extracting...
Who's the UK's IT Community Hero of the Year?
News Entries are now open for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, with a new category recognising achievements benefiting the IT community
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Being green is all well and good but how long will companies continue to worry about the environment if the financial downturn affecting the US bites harder and really impacts the UK? That was...
BCS joins calls for Phorm service to be opt-in
News The British Computer Society has joined the information commissioner in calling for Phorm's targeted-ad service to be opt-in to comply with privacy law
Skype 3.8 Release Available
Blog Skype has released 3.8 "Gold" for Windows. They made one change that is half-good. Incoming contact requests pop up without the picture. That's a start. But why don't they get it? A new...
Panasonic Toughbook CF-52
Review The Toughbook CF-52 is a solidly built 'semi-ruggedised' notebook, with a hardened outer casing, shock-mounted hard disk and covered ports. However, this 3.3kg system isn't the most portable of...
Microsoft delays XP SP3 over 'compatibility issue'
News The release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been delayed due to a compatibility glitch, also affecting Vista SP1, with Dynamic Retail Management System
BCS: Gov't data breaches have eroded public trust
News The British Computer Society has lashed out at the government, saying its poor data-control practices have harmed people's trust in information sharing
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda'
News The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft's rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content
Why would the calls use inclusive call minutes?
Talkback Surely the Skype calls are made over GPRS or 3G? That's the whole point of VoIP, calls over a data connection. There would be no point in making Skype calls otherwise, you might as well just use...
EC gives go-ahead to Oracle's BEA acquisition
News The European Commission has said it has no competition concerns over the takeover of systems software company BEA Systems by Oracle
Socitm names new president
News Richard Steel, formerly Newham Borough Council's chief information officer, has taken the reins at the Society of Information Technology Management
Apple's war games
Blog Apple's acquisition of PA Semi, makers of low-power, high-performance Power-PC compatible processors, has attracted attention from an unusual quarter - the US military. According to Rick Merritt on...
Big names drum up support for Asia Linux groups
News Participation by big vendors is helping attract new members to open-source groups in Asia, who want to benefit from shared knowledge and meet local and international developers
AMD touts importance of 'balanced' platform
News The company says the growing importance of a satisfactory visual computing experience means having an equally strong CPU, chipset and graphics component
Windows XP SP3 Installed
Blog I have downloaded and installed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP Professional on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510. Everything went smoothly, and it seems to work just fine. I don't see anything...
Indian techies snubbing west in favour of home
News Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology are increasingly staying at home rather than looking to western countries for work, as the range and quality of career prospects in India...
