Previous DayTandberg releases HD videoconferencing kit
News The company's new Profile products offer 'telepresence-quality' high-definition videoconferencing, Tandberg has claimed
Amazon lowers cloud costs
Blog From the first of February users of Amazon’s CloudFront will find the cost of the cloud computing application has dropped. On Friday, Amazon said that the cost of transferring data around the...
Fannie Mae contractor indicted for planting malware
News The US mortgage agency did not revoke the access privileges of an IT contractor who had been dismissed, allowing the contractor to insert a malware bomb, the FBI alleges
Citrix to reduce staff by 10 percent
News Software and virtualisation company reported it was 'pleased' with sees drop in Xen virtualisation sales said it will cut 500 staff
Digital Britain needs foresight, not flannel
Leader Lord Carter's Digital Britain interim report fails to challenge or convince. Foresight, not flannel, is needed
Chris Stening, MD Easynet Connect & UK Online
Talkback The Internet is arguably the UK’s most important modern infrastructure. Homes and businesses across the UK rely on their Internet connections everyday, so any measures to bring the technology to as...
Benchmarks: AMD's Phenom II
Tech Guide AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip?
Who pays? Who gets?
Talkback If the funding for this is coming from existing EU funds, then it is so very obvious that Brussels has been receiving too much from member nations. It must be remembered that the EU is still only...
Yahoo drops its Briefcase
News The online storage Briefcase service is shutting down, and Yahoo is warning users to download or delete stored files before the cut-off
Google really is prepping its GDrive
Blog There's been a flurry of speculation of late, surrounding Google's online storage play, the fabled "GDrive". We're always suspicious of such unconfirmed, echo-chamber-type stories, but this one is...
Even £100m is too much... if it's the wrong project
Talkback The Conservatives’ recent proposal for a £100m cap on government IT projects is grounded on an appropriate and sensible ambition to reduce the amount of money wasted on IT projects. Reacting to...
Super-fast rural comms needn't be super costly
Comment Rather than bodging rural broadband, the government should be aiming high — and future-proofing remote communities, argues Malcolm Corbett
Google-backed tool detects net filtering, blocking
News A new open platform from Google, the New America Foundation and PlanetLab allows consumers to monitor their broadband connection for internet-provider interference
Why would they?
Talkback Why would our glorious leaders sign this when they are busy trying to absolve themselves of any responsibility for the security of their existing data while simultaneously collecting more and more...
Novell webmail product suffers cross-site flaws
News Two cross-site vulnerabilities exists in Novell's GroupWise WebAccess webmail that could open company systems to intellectual property theft, researchers have warned
Fujitsu closes HDD head business
Blog Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it was getting out of the hard disk drive (HDD) head business and handing it over to Toshiba. The "head" on a disk drive is the part that flies across the...
Microsoft issues new RC of Vista SP2
Blog While the world and its dog eagerly awaits Windows 7, Microsoft still has another service pack for Vista waiting in the wings. Service Pack 2 is now into its release candidate phase, and Redmond...
Orange starts selling pay-as-you-go BlackBerry
News The operator is the first in the UK to offer the popular smartphone without requiring a long-term subscription
Head in the Data Cloud Pt.I
Blog A simple tale of IMAP email and remote synchronisation in 3 parts. Of late I have have been using two machines, my reliable steed the ThinkPad X60s and the cute n' cuddly Acer Aspire One, both...
Microsoft adds search option for Firefox
News A free add-on lets the open-source web browser tap more directly into Microsoft search results
Strong sales help Amazon beat Q4 expectations
News Despite the weak economy, the e-commerce giant reports an 18 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenues on strong Christmas sales
Bosses sign pledge to protect personal data
News Several public-sector organisations and private companies have agreed to the ICO's 10-point Personal Information Promise, but no-one from central government has signed so far
Solid State Drives and Data Loss
Blog I was just looking at an announcement of the HP Mini 2140 netbook, and came across this gem: It features an 80GB solid state drive, a feature we're seeing more and more in netbooks these days,...
Manchester may trial large-scale ID card rollout
News The city is one of several areas under consideration as a test bed for the scheme, in which people will be able to volunteer and get a card from November
