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Blog After many years secretly hoping that all this strange technology gubbins would go away, Radio 4 has finally caved in and got its own IT programme. It's called Click On. I've been involved behind...
Reducing the Vista upgrade pain
Blog As you may have heard, Microsoft is cracking the whip on upgraders. If you want to put a Vista upgrade on your computer, you'll need to have a running, older version of Windows there for it to...
Diversity, prejudice, enablement: the mixed media message
Blog Ah, I always wanted to pretend to be an academic... Two of the places I went to yesterday on my broadcast frenzy were the BBC World Service and Al Jazeera. Both times, I was initially contacted...
Vista resista
Blog Microsoft press events are curious beasts. You might think that a product launch is an unveiling, the revelation of something new to the world. Sometimes it is. But rarely, if ever, with Microsoft...
Microsoft's bold march towards open source
Leader The software giant is demanding that users prove their innocence over IP violations. Microsoft should take the lead — and there's one obvious way forward
Fring rings in the changes
Blog While operators rage against the dying of the light (oh alright, "hope to cling on to their revenues"), new players are starting to circle like vultures. While Skype is safely (for now) holding...
Video: Vista on sale
Video A peek at Vista's San Francisco release, where computing retailer CompUSA was open for business at midnight
T-Mobile: We must do more on data roaming
News Operator's communications director outlines its 2007 strategy for roaming, HSDPA and the iPhone
Brocade completes McData merger and cuts jobs
News Having completed the acquisition of McData, Brocade has outlined the strategy for the joint company and shed hundreds of workers
New business ultraportable from Sony
Blog G11 — no, it's not an economic grouping of nation states, it's the latest addition to Sony's range of VAIO notebooks. A 1.13kg ultraportable with a 12.1in. screen and an integrated optical...
Do Both
Talkback I am also an IT pro, and I quite agree with the above comment. How about a system where you vote on a screen on a booth and it chucks out a pre-printed voting slip with your vote and your voter...
On ballot secrecy
Talkback As an IT professional I would certainly never trust an electronic ballot. However, those who believe a paper ballot is secret (as in anonymous) are in fact mistaken. One of the reasons that a...
Having a bad day?
Blog Having just had the mother of all nightmares with my tax return (why exactly do new online self-assessment passwords need to be snail-mailed???), I appreciated this wonder-drug advert as seen on...
Security experts welcome adware fines
News Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular Wireless are paying hefty fines after their products were promoted through adware
Digital rights group slams e-voting
News Activists say the only way to ensure trusted election results is old-fashioned paper and box, as the government announces new e-voting trials
Microsoft Office: Then and Now
Photo Help, where did Undo go? Here's where to find that and other must-have commands in the new Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007.
Software firm raided in fraud probe
News Serious Fraud Office has raided three residential addresses linked to UK software developer Torex Retail
When Goliath manipulated Goliath
Blog Get this. This is a short chronology of how a rather large software company can influence one of the largest government administrations in the world. I repeat the timeline of events without...
Roundup: Full coverage of the Vista launch
Roundup From Bill Gates's appearance in London to the protests from the Green Party, we bring you all the details of the launch of Microsoft Vista
Vista backlash begins
News Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has severely criticised security features in Microsoft's operating system, while IT professionals see Vista as a 'distraction'
Microsoft defends Vista's environmental impact
News Software giant says it is prepared to meet the Green Party to discuss concerns around Vista
PC World waves goodbye to floppy disks
News Computing retailer will stop selling floppy disks when its current stock runs out
SanDisk plans USB security boost
News Flash memory maker will announce a product designed to help businesses manage and control the use of USB drives
Start-up introduces safer notebook battery
News Boston-Power claims its Sonata battery is less likely to blow up, and HP looks set to become the first customer
IBM fine-tunes Jazz open-source project
News Set to launch in June, the project is designed to modernise development tools for globally distributed teams
AlwaysOn conference day two
Blog Day two of the AlwaysOn conference saw an exhausting program of showcases, panel discussions, keynotes and workshops. The showcases were very interesting with up to six CEO's per session having...
