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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK.
Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
The reports that are popping up all over the web that IBM, along with Georgia Tech, has demonstrated the world’s fastest ever chip are, sadly, not quite as exciting as you might at first think. Not least because this wasn’t a chip at all, but rather a transistor, and even the least technical...
Read More | Jun 22nd, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 28th, 2006
I’ve just returned from the Symantec Threat Response Center in Dublin, Ireland where a select handful of European security software reviewers witnessed the first public demonstration of Norton Confidential: the Symantec response to what it refers to as the CrimeWare explosion.
Symantec acquired...
Read More | Jun 21st, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 22nd, 2006
The growing acceptance of IM in the workplace has, eventually, made an impression on AOL which has started a public test of AIM Pro PE (Professional Edition). Although not expected to actually launch until the autumn, one has to wonder how much weight the consumer oriented AOL brand carries in the...
Read More | Jun 18th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 31st, 2008
Nintendo has been granted a broad stroke patent covering a “messaging service for video game systems with buddy list that displays game being played.” Patent number 7056217 was originally filed way back in 2000, a whole year before the Xbox was launched, and two years before Xbox Live became a...
Read More | Jun 18th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 18th, 2006
The triple-gate transistor is not new, almost exactly three years ago on June 12th 2003 at the Symposia of VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan, Intel was heralding it as the future of chip design. However, the fact that at the same Symposium this week in Hawaii, Intel reveals the...
Read More | Jun 14th, 2006
As the battle to become the next Microsoft heats up, this week I’ve been struck by the online maneuvering from both eBay and Google. The auction company is looking to tread on Google toes with its own contextual advertising service, named using devilish cunning ‘AdContext.’ Google,...
Read More | Jun 14th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 15th, 2006
Get ready for Patch Tuesday. July 13th will be the biggest update for 18 months, with no less than 12 security bulletins: 9 for the Windows OS, 2 for Office and 1 for Exchange. Of these, both Windows and Office updates include one flagged as critical, the highest Microsoft threat rating. At the...
Read More | Jun 11th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 15th, 2006
Last month it was revealed that the National Security Agency had been logging telephone calls since 9/11. This month, the right to privacy debate is set to ignite even further after a report in the New Scientist claims that the NSA is funding research into the harvesting of personal information...
Read More | Jun 11th, 2006 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: Jun 14th, 2006
On May 23rd I predicted that Microsoft would start the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) within a few weeks, and I have been proven right. Microsoft today announced public availability of Vista Beta 2, the same build (5384) as was made available to developers at WinHEC. If you don't mind...
Read More | Jun 8th, 2006 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jun 14th, 2006
Network design can certainly be innovative, and to those of a technical persuasion even considered a thing of beauty. But is it art? That was the question posed by a handful of senior Microsoft folk, the editor of an IT magazine and an Emeritus Professor at an art gallery in London last night.
I...
Read More | Jun 7th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jun 12th, 2006
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