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Transplanted head to review NHS IT
Blog Richard Granger's not gone, but there's a new NHS chief, David Nicholson, who wants to review the whole operation, according to the FT, who also have an interesting interview with Granger himself. A lot to review, then.
[November 27, 2006, 13:56]
Nasa hacker gains judicial review
Blog Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has won a judicial review of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's October decision to carry on with his extradition to the US, even after McKinnon's diagnosis with Asperger's syndrome.
[January 23, 2009, 12:29]
Calm down dear, it's only a strategic review
Blog Pipex has just released its latest results, and Peter Dubens took the opportunity to comment on the feverish speculation surrounding UBS's strategic review for the company (see my take on the furore here).
[April 17, 2007, 11:58]
Date set for McKinnon extradition judicial review
Blog Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking Nasa and Pentagon computers, will have his oral judicial review hearing on 20 Jan, according to the Free Gary McKinnon website. The judicial review will decide whether to overturn Jacqui Smith's decision...
[December 2, 2008, 17:22]
Samsung Omnia hands-on review, part 2
Blog This is part 2 of my off-the-cuff Omnia review. Here are parts 1 and 3 The underlying layers of Windows Mobile seem fine these days:it makes a good fist of the difficult task of co-ordinating the very many different real-time processes of a...
[September 14, 2008, 16:36]
McKinnon lawyers seek judicial review
Blog Lawyers seeking a judicial review for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon lodged fresh evidence of his psychiatric state at the High Court on Thursday. Todner and the rest of McKinnon's legal team have requested a judicial review of home secretary Alan...
[December 10, 2009, 16:00]
McKinnon judicial review application on Tuesday
Blog Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon's application for a second judicial review will happen on Tuesday. The review, at the Royal Courts of Justice, is to apply for a decision as to whether McKinnon could be prosecuted in the UK.
[July 13, 2009, 17:26]
Skype's Abysmal Service - An Independent Review
Blog Here is an excellent review and tests of Skype service in the U.K. In a nutshell, dropped calls, poor quality, no response from Skype. Skype Drops the Ball on Free Calls I would only add one comment. My brother tried to call me over the weekend, to...
[July 8, 2008, 12:28]
Samsung Omnia hands-on review, part 3
Blog This is part 3 of my off-the-cuff Omnia review. The people who get that key job done the best - and you'd have to give Google's own Android/Chrome/Gears/JavaScript platform at least a fighting chance - will be the people who win the market.click...
[September 14, 2008, 16:41]
Samsung Omnia hands-on review, part 1
Blog Those notes have grown into a three part ad-hoc review: this is part one, and here are parts two and three. Around ten days ago, Samsung took me to a party and gave me an Omnia smartphone. I've used it intensively on my personal T-Mobile account...
[September 14, 2008, 16:31]
Review of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard Review
Blog By making this statement twice (I think the review started with much the same comment) you are missing out on what exactly Apple have done here. The heavily featured "review" of Snow Leopard by Jason Parker from CNET on this site is a sort of...
[August 28, 2009, 15:58]
Beer Review
Blog PR maven - a word I've always imagined describing a raven with a speech impediment - Andrew Smith has noticed my formula for getting coverage on ZDNet UK. Fellow PRs have immediately latched onto the beer component - and I'm glad to see this...
[November 2, 2006, 9:11]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog I have been using this new laptop for about a week now, and I am very pleased with it. There have been a couple of minor irritants, as is always the case with a new computer, but overall I don't think it could have been much better.
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
Panasonic Toughbook mini review
Blog I needed to get portable, and fast. My fave laptop was in dry dock, and the plane left at six. Time to exercise one of the perks of the job, wander over to Charles on Reviews and see if there was a computer on the slush pile I could take for a spin.
[March 6, 2007, 7:49]
SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 vs. openSuSE 11.1
Blog First, let me make this clear, this is NOT intended as a "review" of SuSE Linux Enterprise. Not even a "mini-review". This is Jamie Watson seeing that a free "sneak peek" pre-release version is available, and being curious about two things: does it...
[February 27, 2009, 8:51]
Tetraktys - Ari Juels
Blog The review: here. We don't often review novels, but did this one for a couple of reasons: The author is the chief scientist at RSA Data Security, which means he's a significant factor in determining the workings of the Net's security infrastructure...
[August 21, 2009, 23:03]
NHS IT debacle causes an irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. The academics are not trying to define themselves the...
[October 11, 2006, 17:45]
Nasa hacker gets legal deadline extended
Blog Gary McKinnon's legal team has been given more time to request a judicial review of the home secretary's decision not to halt McKinnon's extradition to the United States. Johnson released his decision not to intervene on Thursday, and McKinnon was...
[December 2, 2009, 14:07]
Logitech Alto Cordless Laptop Stand
Blog There was a review of the original Logitech Alto Laptop Stand here on ZDNet UK just over a year ago. Basically everything that was said in that review still applies to this newer model, so I will confine myself to mentioning the differences, and...
[July 1, 2008, 8:05]
Biscit customers sold?
Blog The eminently readable ISP Review site has "reliable sources" claiming that Biscit's remaining customer base has been sold on to Breathe Internet - not that Biscit's site mentions this at the moment (well, it has been frozen in time since December...
[March 9, 2007, 11:53]
