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Infotech: when wow turns to WTF: do you care about Blackberry 10?

Were / are you an early adopter? Did/do you surf the wave of new products just because they were cool - or whatever the word was during the decades that "cool" was an uncool word? Did/do you queue outside a shop to get a new product on its first day? And did/does your heart beat a little (or even a lot faster) when rumours - or better still leaked photos or details - of a new product floated around? Are you excited by today's "leaked details" of the Blackberry 10?

Or are you bored by the whole thing and realising you're being manipulated?



Internet: another bank fraud shows why Nominet is right

Another phishing attack on the customers of UK bank LloydsTSB shows why the UK's lead domain authority is right to seek strong powers and why those who oppose its plans are wrong.

InfoTech: Putin says Russia's government to migrate to OSS

Russian President Vladimir Putin is the latest political leader to say that his country's government will migrate all its computers to Linux and other open source software. The history of such de...

InfoTech: Steve Jobs dies.

Steve Jobs died yesterday after a long illness that blighted his last months. Our F1 man, who has never owned any Apple kit, delivers a mark of respect for a man who took on giants and won.

InfoTech: how governments embed software in the lives of citizens

With Apple now being, on some calculations, more cash rich than the entire US government and Microsoft being one of the world's biggest turnover companies, it is no surprise that the US Governmen...

InfoTech: big players eschew Apple Apps

Lots of apps do nothing much except be an "App." Like companies feel that failing to put a Facebook or Twitter link on their TV ads means they are unfashionable, failure to have an App...

InfoTech: spammers get more creative

There's a spam mailing list that is in widespread us in the UK that has a specific error in the data which gives away just how often the list is used. It's a lot. And the range of spams that it i...

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