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Does Palm’s developer programme lack substance?
Blog Interesting then to see recent ZDNet.co.uk news detailing the company’s approach to its WebOS platform and the fact it will drop programme fees for open-source developers. The company’s developer programme framework will provide, “feedback on early...
[October 7, 2009, 10:31]
Lib Dems would scrap NHS National IT Programme
Blog Just watching the Lib Dem's conference on BBC Parliament and Norman Lamb, Libe Dem's Health spokesman, has just laid into the NHS National Programme for IT. Hardly controversial - but this is the Lib Dem's we are talking about - as the NPfIT is...
[September 15, 2008, 16:53]
The Today Programme's fear of a tech planet
Blog It wouldn't be so bad, but at least two of the main stories running on the programme today were directly linked with the Net. They try, bless 'em, but this morning the 8am headlines said "Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Internet.
[November 2, 2006, 8:09]
Novell aims to support mission-critical cloud stacks
Blog Novell’s SUSE Appliance Programme launches this afternoon; buoyant on the promise of giving ISVs the ability to create fully supported software and virtual appliances. The SUSE Appliance Programme incorporates SUSE Studio Online as its web-based...
[July 28, 2009, 13:34]
Tuesday
Blog The Today programme goes to town on the evil of radio scanners. I emailed the programme -- I've been a contributor a few times, so I did hope that might count for something -- but nobody there seems interested in any of the above.
[June 28, 2002, 17:44]
WFP's 'boot camp' for ICT emergency managers (part 1)
Blog Arriving in Pisa, Italy for the World Food Programme's training programme for IT Emergency Managers it hit me - this was not the field! I’m a member of the World Food Programme's Fast Information Technology and Telecommunications Emergency and...
[June 27, 2008, 22:03]
MoD pays £150m for soldier tech
Blog The Ministry of Defence has announced that it will pay contractor Thales £150m for the first wave of the Future Infantry Soldier Technology (Fist) programme. The next stage of the Fist programme, which includes command and control technology...
[September 8, 2009, 17:35]
Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has overspent by £10.4bn, the Taxpayers' Alliance said in a statement on Friday. The spokesperson added that the Taypayer's Alliance had been "incorrect to pull that figure of £2.3bn out and say that was...
[November 23, 2009, 12:15]
Home Office denies prototype intercept database
Blog As part of the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the government has been considering whether to propose a centralised database to store the traffic details of all communications of all UK citizens.
[April 7, 2009, 17:34]
Government web-monitoring plans on hold
Blog The Home Office told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the plans, called both the Interception Modernisation Programme [IMP] and Mastering the Internet, would very likely not be put into law until after the next general election in May 2010.
[November 18, 2009, 16:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Today, in the spirit of scientific progress, I download and flash the experimental electronic programme guide -- first EPG in the world for a production DAB radio, pop pickers -- and enter the world of the TiVoistas.
[February 4, 2005, 16:35]
Should more web sites be able to integrate with my diary?
Blog When I want to know what time re-runs of Ray Mears’ Extreme Bushcraft are showing on the ‘Dave’ channel I tend to use tvguide.co.uk - and one of the features of I’ve increasingly started to notice is the option to get more info on the programme...
[January 18, 2008, 14:33]
TSA finds lost laptop - in office where it was lost
Blog According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the laptop contained details of 33,000 travellers involved in a fast pass programme called 'Clear', and belonged to a consultant with Verified Identity Pass, which runs the programme.
[August 6, 2008, 14:59]
The true cost to the BBC of iPlayer...
Blog I'm trying to work out how much more - or less - it costs the BBC to deliver a TV programme over iPlayer than it does to transmit it in the old-fashioned way. This is surprisingly difficult to do, but I think I have an answer: it costs around...
[May 8, 2009, 15:08]
Is Bill's philanthropy just another form of control?
Blog Too wired to sleep but too tired to sit through a whole movie so breaking with my normal obsessive need to watch all the new movies on the plane I opted for some TV and chanced on the BBC Money Programme Interview with Bill Gates which aired last...
[January 21, 2009, 14:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Even nicer is the fact that the report comes from Seti@home, the distributed analysis programme that's been running for years on the world's spare CPU time -- in my case, 11,506 units' worth. It's unlikely to be real," said David Anderson, director...
[September 3, 2004, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog However, the rest of the programme overruns and I'm left with two minutes of what was going to be an nice five-minute chat about the European Commission, the rapacity of mobile phone companies, and how to avoid being ripped off by them when abroad.
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
HP and the African e-waste problem: Round 2
Blog However when I told a contact of mine about the HP programme he was less than impressed. Here are the points he raised when I told him about the HP programme - with the original language toned down a bit:
[February 17, 2009, 17:03]
Do we need a multi-touch gesture alphabet?
Blog Last week I mentioned Embarcadero’s sneaky peak ‘let’s get three press releases out of one story’ programme for releasing its RAD Studio 2010 product. Who is going to keep track of this and try and provide some nomenclature to classify the way we...
[August 11, 2009, 8:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The researcher started into her spiel about looking for some help with their programme, and it turned out that the prog in question was a build-your-own-house-abroad type thing that's really popular right now.
[October 15, 2004, 19:15]
