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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up It's worth pondering but don’t dwell on it if you happen to be dawdling at a T-junction. This cautionary tale is symptomatic of our increasing dependence on technology and our ever-decreasing reliance of common sense, map reading and not noticing... [25 Jul 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data breaches, first when MoJ supplier records were compromised in June 2007 and then when the names, addresses, birth dates and alleged offences relating to 3,648 people were... [25 Jul 2008]
Caption Competition: I'm coming down!
Photo Remember - anonymous posts can't win. The competition closes at noon on Thursday 31 July 2008. A visitor heads down for a tour of London's Victorian sewer network. Submit a caption for this picture as a Reader Comment below. [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Speaking at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, Ballmer said: "Now we aren't [talking] and that's where things are. He said there are other options around this Catch-22 but said he wasn't going to go into those at the time. [25 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Instances of drivers being 'forced' to make an illegal turn or hesitate at junctions were highlighted in the study carried out by Direct Line insurers. This prompted many silicon.com readers to argue that regardless of whether a sat-nav device... [24 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Never let it be said that we at silicon.com don't go to extremes to get you the best stories. We've abseiled down buildings, walked the tracks of the London underground at 2am and this week headed into London's Victorian sewers, all to make sure... [24 Jul 2008]
Take stock for tough times
Comment Ged Keogh-Peters is head of the UK strategy team at specialist retail consultancy Kurt Salmon Associates By adopting a more focused price reduction policy - aimed at pulling demand forward and clearing stock more quickly - real benefits can be... [24 Jul 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News Websites poisoned with malware capable of infecting visitors' machines are being discovered at a rate of 16,173 per day - three times faster than in 2007. T is for Two-factor authentication Senior technology consultant at Sophos, Graham Cluley... [23 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. In some instances I had five active CRT screens as my workspace, backed up by the most powerful computers available at the time. [22 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News He said: "I also offer programming - HTML, Java, Javascript, etc because I don't get to do that kind of stuff at work but I do have knowledge and skill sets because I've worked in the software development industry as well. [22 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Mobile users should be made more aware of how much data they are using while abroad in Europe, the director general for the information society and media at the European Commission has said. Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data roaming on... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo This sewer is a masterpiece of Victorian engineering - part of a giant project aimed at reducing the foul smells in the city and reducing the incidence of cholera - as reflected by this plaque. It really doesn't smell that bad, either. [22 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment In Beijing specially installed clocks constantly remind us to the second the time remaining to the opening ceremony at 8pm on 08.08.08. The IT systems are operational and in fact the games management systems, which among other things handle... [21 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment In that light ID cards don't seem such a bad idea - why should they be? I look at the information we obtain on our customers - people who have already engaged in some sort of transaction with us. There is a lot of information out there and if it... [21 Jul 2008]
First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released
News T is for Two-factor authentication He said: "If the file has to be moved to your Mac or your PC first, then you aren't really scanning the device, you're just scanning by proxy and reactively, since the file has to be on the device first. [21 Jul 2008]
