Previous DayMac User
Talkback As a mac user a watch in horror with the amount of security issue found in a product used world wide by so many people. I have been looking forward to both IE 7 and Vista however i am shocked how...
Stumble Upon
Talkback I recently discovered FireFox add-ons and extensions, and promptly lost about half my waking life to StumbleUpon, which puts a button in your toolbar that directs you to a random but brilliant...
Google buys Jotspot
News Search giant has continued a string of acquisitions by purchasing a Wiki site
Securing the perimeter - and the hole in the middle as well
Blog Escaping from launch fever here at ZD Towers, I've spent Tuesday morning with an interesting LAN security start-up called Nevis Networks. When I was first told of the company, the headlines...
Microsoft accounts for small businesses
News Free application is aimed at small businesses that currently use pen and paper or spreadsheets to run their operations
YouTube googles for gold...
Blog Oho - we all knew that there was much more behind the scenes to the GooTube deal than met the eye and now (via Dave Farber's Interesting People mailing list) comes a fascinating and totally...
Jamming
Blog According to the Baltimore Sun (free reg required - sorry), various bad manufacturers have been taking the mickey over the more relaxed regulations the Americans have for low powered transmitters....
Oh **** not John Reid
Talkback So enterprise must now fight terrorism? That's funny. Seeing as superhawks like Reid are partly responsible for upping the terrorist ante, its all a bit rich. How about, sort your own policies out,...
Microsoft turns to private detectives
News Microsoft gets serious about checking out people it suspects of using auction sites to sell unlicensed software
Dell: One gig good, two gig better
Blog If you thought 1GB of memory was ample for the average personal computer, you can forget it. Now 2GB is the minimum that users should be aiming at. At least according to Dell chief executive,...
Carphone's latest pot-kettle moment
Blog Remember that piece we did on Carphone Warehouse's extraordinary slanging match with, ooh, just about everyone roundabout the time it bought AOL UK? Remember how they laid into Vodafone and Phones...
Update from Plusnet
Talkback Hi guys, My name is Mand and I work for the Comms Team here at Plusnet. The good news is that there is no longer a need for the fee paying upgrades, as we have submitted orders for all the...
A worthy winner
Talkback I use both IE7 and Firefox 1.5 and now 2.0 daily and can say I agree with the verdict. You'd have to be really Pro Microsoft/biased to come to any other conclusion. IE7 is maybe comparible to...
John Reid: Tech industry must fight terrorism
News Home Secretary asks IT industry to aid the government, and warns of terrorist threat 'to bleed us to bankruptcy'
Boost your Google ranking
Blog You might notice that the ZDNet UK edit staff are using their full, real names as usernames here. There's two reasons for this: first, so you know who we are and can find us; and second, because...
Firefox fan
Blog Firefox 2 is generating plenty of coverage across the Net, including our own review and shoot-out versus IE 7. Now the new ZDNet's bloggers are getting in on the act: check out David's detailed...
Making changes
Leader The new ZDNet UK isn't just about news, reviews, comment, blogging and multimedia. There's something far more important in the mix
The M word
Talkback Microsoft is almost a swear word in some circles so I agree no matter how good IE7 became there would still be Firefox users. However, seeing as Firefox is vastly superior anyway it is the logical...
EC: Web 2.0 means power and responsibility
News As internet governance debate rages on, Viviane Reding says Web 2.0 is creating 'the people's internet'
Stuttering Start for IE7
Talkback Poor IE barely out of the blocks and has had security vunerabilities exposed and Firefox 2.0 out foxing it the same week. Looks like IE's comeback is not going to plan. I'm personally a firm fan or...
Disability legislation puts onus on IT managers
News IT pros in the public sector will soon need to take more initiative on accessibility, regardless of cost
Investors brave Israel conflict
News Venture investment continues to flow into Israel despite the recent strife in the area
One gig good, two gigs better, says Dell boss
Blog If you thought 1GB of memory was ample for the average personal computer, you can forget it. Now 2GB is the minimum that users should be aiming at. At least according to Dell chief executive, Kevin...
UN proposes net governance changes
News Top UN official takes aim at 'self-serving justifications' for permitting the United States to preserve its unique influence and authority online
Warning on IE 7 pop-up problem
News Browser design could allow malicious attackers to alter content in a legitimate website's pop-up window
FBI shuts down fake boarding pass site
News Site let anyone with an internet connection and a printer create fake airline boarding passes
Sybase secures mobile email
News OneBridge, designed to automatically deliver email to a mobile device, will now interoperate with Afaria security features
Microsoft licenses tech to China
News Software maker licenses mobile phone technology to two Chinese start-ups as part of a wider programme
the service is terrible anyway!
Talkback I had an extremely negative experience with Plusnet. It all comes down to the fact that they have no customer service at all. It is impossible to get in touch with anyone. In addition, I was...
Patriotism
Talkback Sounds like the US based company is looking after no1 again. The lab was closed purely on cost grounds? No mention of how important or good the work was.
The next incarnation of Windows Mobile
Blog For all you WinMob fans out there, some screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.0 or whatever they'll call Codename:Crossbow when it comes out. Looks good - obviously going with the Vista look, and it...
Here we go again
Talkback After jumping through hoops when I had to comply with the requirement of Microsoft to prove my windows was legitimate, after changeing Windows Genuine Advantage I had to do it again, and again. Yes...
UK research investment soars
News Spending on research and development in the UK has risen to £19.2bn this year from around £17bn in 2005
Core 2 Duo notebooks on the way
Blog As the dust settles on the ZDNet editorial floor, and the takeaway wrappers, pizza boxes, Coke tins and other detritus are swept up following a weekend of controlled but frenzied pre-launch...
Patients can 'opt out' of NHS IT system
News Lord Warner confirmed patients will have the right to 'dissent', and lashed out at critics
This blog's name
Blog OK, as sterling analyst (and we're talking more than currency here) James Enck has pointed out to me, there is at least one other blog with a similar name to this one. All I can say is hey, it's...
Liquid Computing launches high-end Opteron server
News Administrators can divide the chips in any combination of servers, and reconfigure to adjust to changing circumstances
Old School GSMA
Blog Check out this post from the always well-informed Dean Bubley. We received this press release too, but with all the hectic redesign stuff going on (how's the new site, by the way?) it kind of fell...
$6bn takeover of UPS giant
Blog Hot news in the uninterruptible power supply industry is pretty rare, but on Monday American Power Conversion was snaffled by Schneider Electric for the princely sum of $6.1bn. The deal is meant to...
Microsoft targets counterfeiters on UK auction sites
News More than 50 lawsuits worldwide target online merchants who allegedly peddle counterfeit software on sites such as eBay
Browser shoot-out: IE 7 v Firefox 2
Buyer's Guide Microsoft and Mozilla have both recently released new and long-awaited browsers. Each has its adherents, but which should you use? We put them head-to-head.
Seagate shows full-disk encryption for laptops
News DriveTrust automatically encrypts all data written to disk, making it inaccessible to anyone who doesn't have the correct password
Munich's Linux migration 'on track'
Blog Munich's much-scrutinised migration to Linux is going well, according to the city's mayor. Christine Strobel told Heise Online that eighty percent of desktops will have moved from Windows to Linux...
i-mate JAQ
Review i-mate's bulky JAQ could suit those who find many keyboard-equipped handhelds hard to use. In opting for this device, though, they will have to put up with decidedly average design, specifications...
