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RSS friday last weekApple patch fails to address DNS flaw, say experts
Cisco wrote in an advisory last week that various Cisco products would negate port-randomisation patches by some third parties. The patch was brought out by Apple on Friday for its Tiger and Leopard operating systems, to address a critical Domain... [04 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News Last week, HP, Intel and Yahoo! The move, made public on Friday, is the latest in IBM's efforts to generate interest and funding for cloud computing, in which software runs not on PCs or company servers but on computers on the internet. [04 Aug 2008]
Samsung storms second quarter results
News Samsung Electronics reported on Friday its second-quarter profits rocketed 51 per cent, due in large part to a surge in mobile phone sales. Last year, the company overtook Motorola as the number two handset maker in the world, behind Nokia, the... [28 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.07.08
Round-Up If you're anything like the Round-Up or indeed any other sane and well-adjusted person, then last Friday you got up at an ungodly hour and queued in the rain outside an O2 shop to buy a new phone. Of course, when it launched last June it was only... [18 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News Our clients didn't want the .eu domain name but they felt they had no choice," he told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week. However, a spokesperson for Nominet, the organisation that runs the .uk TLD, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that... [30 Jun 2008]
SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys
News The companies announced last week that the first of SAP's software to make it onto the BlackBerry will be its customer relationship management (CRM) application, which will be generally available for mobile use within a couple of months. [06 May 2008]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News At the end of last week the parliament voted through two reports on the cultural industries. A spokesperson for the parliament told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that, while the reports were recommendations and not legally binding... [14 Apr 2008]
Some to get Vista SP1 this week
News So it was a bit of a surprise when Microsoft said last week that it had finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but customers would have to wait until March to get it. Yesterday, Microsoft reversed course and said it would make the code available to... [12 Feb 2008]
Confusion over Office streaming service
News Michala Wardell, head of anti-piracy at Microsoft UK, said on Friday last week: "Fasthosts is a valued Microsoft partner who we have a great relationship with. Earlier this week, the UK-based ISP and hosting company started selling a version of... [11 Feb 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News Last week also saw other government blunders come to light, such as the loss of more than 4,000 patient details by primary care trusts in Stockport and Oldham. The MoD admitted the breach on Friday following the theft from a Royal Navy recruitment... [21 Jan 2008]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany. [19 Nov 2007]
Tech suppliers get ID card lowdown
News The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) staged a bidders' conference last week for companies to learn how the procurement process for the National Identity Scheme (NIS) will work and what kinds of projects they could be involved in. [17 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.08.07
Round-Up By comparison, a relatively chilled-out 38 per cent said they do not reply to email until a day or even a week after receiving it. From rolling heads to talking heads - check out this week's Caption Competition and tell us what Steve Jobs is saying... [17 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Congratulations to Kiernan Wagstaff who won last week's competition - see the winning entry here. Hanging around with toads and cats and cultivating facial warts is so last century. New wave developers are demanding big payouts as the world and his... [13 Jul 2007]
Apple riding wave of iPhone hype
News As iPhone Week dawns, one thing is clear: marketing is a lot easier - and cheaper - if you let other people do it for you. The iPhone will finally arrive on Friday after six months of hype across all media. [26 Jun 2007]
