Recent articles by Iain Thomson

Opinion: Vista is dead, PDC suggests

Opinion: Vista is dead, PDC suggests

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference has shown one thing at least, says Iain Thomson: the company has given up on Vista and is now looking at Windows 7 as its saviour.
Iain Thomson Oct 29 2008 3:41PM Software
Scientists build world’s smallest storage device

Scientists build world’s smallest storage device

Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in quantum computing after managing to store information inside the nucleus of an atom.
Iain Thomson Oct 27 2008 6:41AM Storage
Financial malware gets smarter

Financial malware gets smarter

Banks falling behind fraudsters.
Iain Thomson Oct 25 2008 1:30PM Security
Boss uses Facebook to catch skiving worker

Boss uses Facebook to catch skiving worker

An Australian call centre employee has been caught malingering after his boss checked his Facebook status.
Iain Thomson Oct 25 2008 1:30PM Training & Development
Internet voting starts for US citizens

Internet voting starts for US citizens

The first internet votes in U.S. history will be cast on Friday in an experiment to judge the effectiveness of the system.
Iain Thomson Oct 24 2008 3:04PM Software
Boss uses Facebook to catch out staff

Boss uses Facebook to catch out staff

A call centre employee has been caught out faking illness after his boss checked his Facebook status.
Iain Thomson Oct 24 2008 3:04PM Software
Office 2007 SP2 due in US spring

Office 2007 SP2 due in US spring

Microsoft has confirmed that the next service pack for Office 2007 will be released February-April next year.
Iain Thomson Oct 24 2008 6:48AM Software
FBI used undercover agent in Dark Matter bust

FBI used undercover agent in Dark Matter bust

The FBI has released more details of how it shut down the Dark Matter online crime forum.
Iain Thomson Oct 23 2008 9:58AM Security
Google publishes Android source code

Google publishes Android source code

Google has officially open sourced its Android code base and is encouraging developers to try out the new platform.
Iain Thomson Oct 23 2008 6:35AM Software
Corporates failing on email security

Corporates failing on email security

Barely a quarter of companies have an effective system in place to stop data leaks over email, according to a new IDC survey of American businesses.
Iain Thomson Oct 22 2008 2:59PM Security
FBI administrated over busted online crime site

FBI administrated over busted online crime site

The FBI has been releasing more details of how it shut down the Dark Matter online crime forum.
Iain Thomson Oct 22 2008 2:59PM Security
F-Secure calls for global internet police

F-Secure calls for global internet police

'Internetpol' needed or internet businesses may fail.
Iain Thomson Oct 22 2008 10:39AM Security
Apple goes after Vista in new campaign

Apple goes after Vista in new campaign

After Microsoft’s huge advertising campaign to support its Vista operating system Apple has gone on the offensive with a new series of adverts slating the move.
Iain Thomson Oct 21 2008 2:28PM Software
Google profit up 26 per cent

Google profit up 26 per cent

Google’s third quarter results have shown profit increased 26 per cent from the third quarter of 2007.
Iain Thomson Oct 20 2008 3:28PM Financial Services
Hubble crashes again

Hubble crashes again

NASA is reporting that computer problems on the Hubble orbital telescope have worsened, complicating the mission planned to repair it.
Iain Thomson Oct 20 2008 3:10PM Hardware
Mozilla debuts mobile browser

Mozilla debuts mobile browser

Mozilla has released its first beta of a mobile version of its popular browser Firefox.
Iain Thomson Oct 20 2008 6:44AM Software
Teenage hacker charged for DDOS attack on Scientology

Teenage hacker charged for DDOS attack on Scientology

A teenager who took part in a distributed denial of service attack against the so-called church of Scientology has been charged.
Iain Thomson Oct 20 2008 6:44AM Security
Gmail outage irks IT administrators

Gmail outage irks IT administrators

IT administrators are being hassled by disgruntled staff who have found themselves cut off from Gmail with little explanation.
Iain Thomson Oct 18 2008 10:23AM Software
FBI wipes out online credit card ring

FBI wipes out online credit card ring

The FBI has announced that it has concluded a two year investigation into an online market for stolen credit card data behind millions of dollars of fraud.
Iain Thomson Oct 17 2008 4:00PM Security
Schneier says quantum cryptography is “nearly useless”

Schneier says quantum cryptography is “nearly useless”

Deployment of networks protected by quantum cryptography is “nearly useless” for practical uses according to security expert Bruce Schneier.
Iain Thomson Oct 17 2008 4:00PM Security

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