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National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?

News The 3G card became a bit slow in the afternoon so I switched to my home wi-fi network to send a large file. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is to do your job...

Tags: home, work

[16 May 2008]

Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News That feature was in Office 2004 but was pulled in the current version as Microsoft worked to add support for Intel processors and new file formats. For those still using the last release of Office, Lefebvre said that, after several delays...

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News She added: "You would end up in a mixed file state in Windows, where most files would be the upgraded XP SP3, except for the IE6 files restored when uninstalling IE7. Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not...

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to bother to keep conforming with the OOXML standard as it develops within ISO, but Brown is more optimistic: "Given Microsoft's proven ability to...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News The main data security threat comes from poorly trained or disgruntled employees who are authorised to have access to data and file stores, according to Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the European Parliament has recommended. In this conflict, the ISPs are claiming they should not have to disconnect those users...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

'CopNav' to track Met's police officers

News In news reports the Metropolitan Police Federation - the body representing the rank and file officers in the force - has raised concerns about the privacy implications of the scheme. Every police officer in London is to be tracked using a new...

Tags: tag, london, police

[11 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News In a bid to make web development easier and more scalable, the company says the Google App Engine allows access to the power of the company's own Bigtable compressed database and the Google File System.

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?

News European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised. The European Commission said in January it was exploring whether the...

Tags: standard, microsoft, ooxml

[04 Apr 2008]

UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown

News Illegal music downloads are being fuelled by file-sharing applications that allow people to share tunes online, the UK record industry has warned. More people than ever are able to illegally swap their music collections because BitTorrent clients...

Tags: p2p, drm, bpi

[27 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer hacked… again

News Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. Paul Battley, a developer for crowd-sourced reviews site Reevoo, wrote on his...

Tags: bbc, hack, iplayer, released

[17 Mar 2008]

Microsoft boosts stability of Office 2008 for Mac

News The company has also delayed several times the availability of converter tools that allow its predecessor to read the XML file formats introduced with Office 2007 for Windows. Microsoft has released its first update to Office 2008 for Mac, fixes...

Tags: microsoft, mac, office, stability

[12 Mar 2008]

Praise for Microsoft from open source Linux leader

News Some praised Microsoft for making it easier for programmers to get access to technology such as communication protocols and file formats, and to get their software to work better with Microsoft's. Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project...

Tags: microsoft, torvalds, linux, open source

[26 Feb 2008]

ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight

News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage   BBC signs up...

Tags: isps, bandwidth, fcc, questions

[25 Feb 2008]

Illegal file-sharing: Gov't says enough is enough

News The government has unveiled plans to tackle illegal file sharing along with steps to protect intellectual property and promote broadband. Legal Eye on illegal file-sharing Although the government has a preference for voluntary action by ISPs to...

Tags: download, file sharing, broadband, illegal

[22 Feb 2008]

Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad

News At the same time though, it has again pushed back the release of converters needed by users of Office 2004 to read documents saved in the new XML file formats used by Office 2007 for Windows. As a result we are pushing back the release of the final...

Tags: office, microsoft, mac, file

[22 Feb 2008]

Gov't IT spending to face scrutiny

News Hundreds of thousands of people were given an extra 24 hours to file their tax returns online after HM Revenue & Customs' computer filing system crashed hours before the final deadline on Thursday. Government spending on IT is to come under...

Tags: treasury, government, it, budget

[01 Feb 2008]

Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day

News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after the website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31 January deadline.

Tags: hmrc, deadline, government gateway, tax

[31 Jan 2008]

Music piracy fight - ISPs must do more

News According to the IFPI's latest report into digital music, the ratio of unlicensed downloads to legal ones stands at 20 to one, with tens of billions of illegal file transfers taking place in 2007. The International Federation of the Phonographic...

Tags: music, government, piracy, isps

[25 Jan 2008]

Happy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake

News Insufficient security validation of input file names in the Firefox header lets an attacker order the browser to access files it is not supposed to be able to access. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mozilla, birthday, firefox, suite

[25 Jan 2008]

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