Archive - 01 Nov 2005
'Be more secure than next door' approach divides experts
It may not matter if you're vulnerable as long as you're less vulnerable than your rivals...
Flagship £64m NHS e-booking system is "12 months late"
Just 20,000 appointments made and January deadline will be missed…
Council IT staff 'don't respect' their chief execs
No leadership or inspiration at the top, says poll of public sector workers…
NB: Mobile data roaming charges
Do you find mobile roaming tariffs expensive and confusing? Well the situation is even worse for tho...
£100 iTunes download exposes mobile roaming rip-off
Extortionate charges and confusing tariffs for mobile data abroad...
Teenager in court over "email bomb" DoS attack
Youth charged with sending five million emails to ex-employer...
NB: Stolen sat phone in Iraq
We hear the Foreign Office has been landed with a £500,000 phone bill after 'losing' one of its sate...
Foot and mouth IT systems need improvement, warn MPs
Or taxpayers will end up footing the clean-up bill again...
RFID payments on track in Scandinavia
Contactless payment on trains and buses...
Recruiters blamed for ageism in IT
But employers aren't so great either...
NB: Ageism poll
silicon.com readers blame recruiters 2-to-1 over employers for carrying out ageism in IT, according ...
NB: Top viruses
Sophos has released its latest 'least wanted' list of the top viruses from the past month. The list ...
NB: Opera in planes
We've had a press release through from browser-maker Opera this morning. It says a deal with Thales ...
UBS rolls out Reuters over BlackBerrys
Info over wireless to 2,500 devices...
Microsoft IE patent appeal knocked back by Supreme Court
Eolas $500m web browser case to continue in district court...
Dell warns of third-quarter revenue slip
Sluggish US and UK consumer PC sales blamed...
Google to push OpenOffice brains
Developers, start your engines...
Devil's Advocate: Here comes 1984
Will we be imprisoned for using encryption?