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A worm belies Apple's perfection
Talkback Who needs it when we have the GUARDIAN and now ZDNET UK :-) A UFO could crash into the power pole outside your house, causing a surge and thus destroying your Mac. So far after 11 months of this year, the same number of mac users destroyed by UFO...
[November 5, 2004, 20:03]
Nasa hacker case adjourned over extradition fears
News All you have to do is satisfy the court he is not at risk," said Evans, according to The Guardian. Gary McKinnon, the UK citizen accused of hacking into computer systems run by Nasa and the US military, will not be extradited across the Atlantic to...
[February 16, 2006, 16:25]
Newsagents to scan discount vouchers by mobile
News The launch follows a trial of the service in 160 retailers in Kent, involving News Group Newspapers, the Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Telegraph. Thousands of newsagents in the north-west of England are to start scanning customers' discount...
[December 10, 2007, 15:31]
Protest fears force World Bank conference online
News It may be seen as a challenge to scupper the conference," he told the Guardian. The World Bank will hold its next development conference over the Internet in an attempt to avoid demonstrations against global capitalism.
[June 20, 2001, 14:29]
Symbian to set up app developer programme
News A number of companies have signed up to use Horizon to create new Symbian applications, including The Guardian, National Public Radio in the US, Ustream, Wine.com, Skout, MobileIron and Dynatech. The Symbian Foundation plans to release an...
[July 16, 2009, 16:57]
New technology 'making ID theft easier'
News Point-of-sale staff are told to look away when people put their PIN number in - so they don't check at all," she told The Guardian. Chip and PIN technology and ID cards will make it easier for criminals to engage in fraud and identity theft instead...
[September 6, 2005, 9:10]
G20 police use usual surveillance methods
Blog There have been some reports of trouble: the Guardian has blogged about the police hitting protesters, while some protesters were Twittering earlier that someone had broken one of the windows at RBS, and that the police had baton-charged at Bank.
[April 1, 2009, 19:04]
Invention is not the mother of necessity
Blog Comment See the Press information link for the specs) http://xrl.us/ubuj (Guardian blog post) I didn't read the GPS in phones article until now but these people waiting for their guaranteed cash do indeed seem to have absolutely no clue at all.
[January 22, 2007, 6:34]
European software patents inch closer
News In a piece published last week in The Guardian, McCarthy argued that the system should not drift towards a US model, but also said that software companies should be offered a similar level of patent protection here as in the US or Japan.
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Click the link below.http://www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,475043,00.html There have been several derisive comments on India and some of the americans have jeered at us. well, yes we do stink obnoxiously but thet curry we cook is the one...
[October 12, 2006, 21:24]
iSoft in takeover talks
News On Tuesday morning, the Guardian reported that the NHS was about to miss its target to get Lorenzo installed at 20 acute trusts by the end of the month.iSoft has also been dogged by reports of financial mismanagement.
[October 17, 2006, 15:45]
Does Facebook rot your brain? Obviously not, but...
Blog Goldacre is the man behind Bad Science, a marvellous Guardian column, blog and book. Last week the ever-reliable Daily Mail ran possibly its most absurd headline ever: How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer.
[February 25, 2009, 22:12]
France attacks Britain over Echelon
News Echelon's mission is to monitor every message in the world," chairman of the inquiry Arthur Paecht told Guardian. A French parliamentary enquiry has harshly criticised Britain for its involvement in the Echelon satellite surveillance system, which...
[October 13, 2000, 17:05]
Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners
News That third does appear to include a number of people who have taken a more visible role -- eg with websites, or an article in the Guardian with Richard Stallman -- but this could as easily be coincidence," said Heald.
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Cut-price digital decoder to hit UK
News Friday's edition of The Guardian compared the TVcompass strategy to Amstrad's decision to sell cheap satellite dishes in the 1980s, suggesting it could give a significant boost to the take-up of digital TV in the UK -- which is vital if the...
[July 12, 2002, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fortunately, bravely, David reconsidered - and you can read the full story on the front page of Thursday's Guardian. As well as the elasticity of reality, another favourite PKD theme is the dangerous paradox of authority: to do you good, we must do...
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
Security flaw hits Linux
News The software bug -- known as a double-free vulnerability -- causes key memory-management functions in the zlib compression library to fail, a condition that could allow a smart attacker to compromise computers over the Internet, said Dave Wreski...
[March 12, 2002, 8:52]
Akamai pulls Al-Jazeera Web support
News The network has stopped airing reports from inside the country in protest, reported The Guardian. First came the crushing traffic and the hack attacks. Akamai Technologies, which provided Web server services to the Arabic news network, has abruptly...
[April 4, 2003, 15:49]
SAP slams open source 'socialism'
Talkback Take a look at the old konfabulator fiasco: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2004/06/30/cupertino_start_your_photocopiers.html But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is...
[November 16, 2005, 4:29]
Amazon.com taken to task over child privacy
News But Amazon's Web site states that it is intended for use only by adults and says, "If you are under 18, you may use Amazon.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Some of the same groups assailed Microsoft's Passport system before...
[April 23, 2003, 8:48]
