Previous Dayi-mate JAMA
Review The i-mate JAMA is a Windows Mobile Pocket PC squeezed into a phone-like form factor. However, business users might be put off by the fact it is dual-band, only runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and lacks...
ITIL Release Management and Testing in Shared Environments
Forum I work for a North American insurance company with an in-house development shop, revenues ~600M per annum. We're just putting the finishing touches on a new set of shared testing environments for...
PNR data not reduced, just squashed
Blog The reduction of the number of data fields handed to US security services announced by the European Union was achieved by squeezing almost the same amount of data on to fewer lines, according to...
Sybase boosts database-management system
News The vendor has enhanced its Adaptive Server Enterprise relational database-management system with improved data protection and manageability
Retentia is capturing and storing call logs already
Talkback Retentia is already capturing and storing call log files for some of the largest Telcos and ISPs in the EU and South America. Go to their website see what data is actually being retained:...
Internet Explorer 'most influential' tech product
News Microsoft-funded IT trade body, CompTIA, issues Microsoft-dominated list of the most influential tech products of the past 25 years
IDE not dead, at least not quite
Blog Headlines this week loudly claimed that IDE drives were dead, and died sometime round about Monday this week, or Tuesday, depending on which site you checked. They were sort of right. A Seagate...
Dialogue Box 10: The best of Series One
Video Dialogue Box introduces an unsuspecting online world to the Axis of Awesome, radiation, a potato, lightbulbs, sore thumbs, supercomputers, speech recognition, thin clients and UMPCs
Championing tech for elderly care
Q&A Majd Alwan wants to reduce healthcare costs and improve care for the elderly; it's been tried before, but now he thinks it will work
Shuttle SD39P2
Review A barebone PC isn’t for everyone, but Shuttle has made the SD39P2 almost foolproof by supporting good components, although the lack of support for AMD processors will disappoint some.
Eurocom launches quad-core notebook
News The Canadian PC manufacturer releases a weighty laptop run by four cores, but it doesn't come cheap
Phone-call logs to be stored for a year
News Telecoms companies must now retain critical details on telephone conversations as an EU-based directive is signed into UK law
Trend Micro joins the crowd in the cloud
News The security vendor has launched an online service, joining companies such as McAfee, Symantec, Google and Microsoft that are all moving in this direction
BSkyB to buy Amstrad for £125m
News The UK company that once had a 25 percent share of the European IT market now finds itself part of Rupert Murdoch's empire
Ten free security utilities you should be using
Photo Here's a list of ten free security tools you can, and should, use to help protect, disinfect and manage your Windows computer.
Australia's first WiMax network comes to Sydney
News BigAir claims to have outpaced the Australian government with the deployment of fixed WiMax networks in Sydney and Melbourne
Money Talks
Talkback Isn't it clever of Google/UTube to create a nice piece of software to protect IP holders rights but disavow any reponsibility for the content of their user-created videos. If anyone saw Panorama on...
Community Spirit
Blog I often get asked about the relative worth of developer networks, user groups and professional certification. Are they a good idea? Well, the short answer is almost certainly yes isn’t it? But how...
iPhone bill shock shocker
Blog David Pogue over at the New York Times has just received his first bill for using his iPhone on AT&T. He is not a happy bunny. In fact, the bill is, according to Pogue, "a staggeringly, hatefully...
Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas
News Security conference takes up more space at Caesars Palace as it tackles topics from hacking the Vista x64 kernel to digital forensics
Google Mini
Review The Google Mini just keeps getting better. It's not the cheapest way of searching your content, but it's probably the simplest to get working, yet highly capable and configurable.
EMC woos Eclipse developers with cash prize
News Company has announced the integration of the Eclipse development tools in Documentum, and a $100,000 prize for the best application
£31m poured into ID cards scheme
News Government has spent millions setting up the National Identity Scheme over the past financial year, according to Home Office figures
