Previous DayDeep packet inspection: What you should know
Feature Public and private entities can use deep packet inspection to analyse internet users' traffic, with potentially serious ramifications for privacy and the nature of the web
20 watts???
Talkback A very interesting experiment and a surprising result...useful to know so thanks chaps, for doing this ! I did not quite follow the point about the 19 or 21 watts of power used. As you mentioned...
MobileMe
Member Review Mobile Me was pitched as the most advanced web service ever but it fails to match even what is out there already. Many features are broken and support is unable to keep up with the complaints....
UK PC market has best growth in Europe
News PC shipments in the UK hit 2.8 million units in the second quarter of this year, as the country saw a consumer buying spree driven by strong mobile PC sales, according to Gartner
Red Hat chief: 'The clouds will all run Linux'
Q&A New chief executive Jim Whitehurst discusses Red Hat's business model and competitors, and explains the company's cloud-computing strategy
Development community warned over middleware threats
Blog From its viewpoint in the SOA infrastructure and services space, Active Endpoints has mailed 30,000 US developers this week (did they forget the UK?) with a WARNING to the development community...
Antikythera Mechanism just keeps getting better
Blog As someone whose boyish fantasies ran along the lines of "What would have happened if the Romans had invented wireless?" (they could have, you know. They had all the bits), I have nothing but love...
Faster FireWire on way for gigabit generation
News A wider, faster bandwidth standard for FireWire and iLink has gained approval by standards body IEEE
500,000 Classmates for Portugal
Blog Amid rumours of a 'third-generation' Classmate PC, Intel has announced that it's to supply half a million of its second-generation (9in. screen) netbooks to the Portuguese government for use in...
MobileMe
Review If Apple irons out the glitches, MobileMe could be worthwhile for iLife and iPhone users who want to keep data on their Macs, handset and iPod Touch, as well as Outlook mail and calendars, on the...
TfL undertakes outsourcing overhaul
News Transport for London is preparing to bring some of its outsourced work back in-house, as part of a review due for completion in September
Complete privacy 'does not exist', says Google
News The company takes issue with a Pittsburgh couple's lawsuit that alleges Google's Street View service invaded their privacy, caused 'mental suffering' and hurt the value of their home
Inside the mind of Asus' marketing department.
Blog Over at Engadget, they have a tantalisingly unsourced photograph of the Eee roadmap. This "Heart touching. Rock solid" pyramid diagram reveals somewhere over 20 models, peaking in the sort of spec...
Disk encryption 'no silver bullet'
News Researchers have revealed how to steal disk encryption key and sensitive data from the memory in laptops in a cold-boot attack on a hibernating computer
RE:Linux, Laptops and Dual Displays
Blog Comment Hello Adam, thanks for the comment, as always. Unfortunately I have looked everywhere I can think of, and under every name that I can think of, for a newer version of the Intel graphic driver,...
Microsoft sues Taiwanese mouse maker
News The software maker has filed patent-infringement actions, claiming Taiwan's Primax Electronics refused to license its technology
RE:Microsoft's pre-modern message puts a new face on Vista
Blog Comment This is one of the great mysteries of life. I know that from time to time, Microsoft has looked at exposing the capability of sensibly managing services on XP, with the intent of making it easy for...
FBI warns of new Storm worm variant
News An email pretending to contain information about a fictitious FBI vs Facebook case contains malicious code for the Storm worm botnet
I tried to defrag!
Forum Ok, upon much advice from fellow forumites, I actually did some defragging... tried to anyway. So my one computer got up to 30% after 6hours, but this computer!!! I ran defrag and it ran all night...
RE:Microsoft's pre-modern message puts a new face on Vista
Blog Comment Rupert you got right on the edge of what I think is a good point. Microsoft is the de facto world-wide monopoly for user operating systems, fine, I don't like it but that is the state of reality....
RE:Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog Comment The one resource we have in abundance in Texas is sunlight! So solar cell arrays make sense at least technically. The problem has always been the economics of a solar array. A single panel doesn't...
