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When Stephen Elop moved from Microsoft to run Nokia, many saw this as part of a cunning plan to prepare the latter for purchase by the f...

Last year, I wrote about some serious issues with Microsoft's Secure Boot Technology in Windows 8. It seems that the German govern...

Readers of this blog don't need to be told about Windows' awful security record, or how, when news outlets talk glibly of "v...

The Stuxnet worm that attacked an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility a couple of years ago was exceptional from several viewpoints . It...

One of the recurrent recent themes of IT in the UK has been how moves to open source by local and central government have been stymied by ...

Microsoft has just released its 2011 Annual Financial Report . But alongside that document's dry facts about its $69.9 billion turnove...

The news about "Operation Shady Rat" has naturally provoked much interest (as it was intended to....) After all, who could not f...

One of the problems with the rapid pace of development in the world of computers is that the latter become out of date and slightly slow com...

One of the most embarrassing features of the dotcom era was a habit of putting “cyber” in front of everything to make it look hot and trendy...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I've tracked the rather painful history of attempts to increase the deployment of free soft...

I'm very sceptical about the concept of “cyber attacks”. Not that I doubt that computer systems and infrastructure are attacked: it'...

Users of free software are nothing if not passionate. Most of them care deeply about the code they use, and will happily plunge into the fla...

One of the pardoxes at the heart of computing is that for all its power to improve the world, in one respect it is doing the opposite, thank...

Not quite on the scale of cancelling the ID cards project, the news that Becta would be shut down was nonetheless further evidence of the co...

As part of my continuing service to report on the fascinating developments in the Chinese chip sector, I pass on the following : It's of...

I've been writing about the Loongson chip for three years now. As I've noted several times, this chip is important because (a) it...

Who's afraid of the data deluge ? Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will so...

Foreign Policy has published some good features ; this isn't one of them: Although the newest oil rigs, which cost upward of $1 billio...

I doubt it somehow : Many potential buyers of laptops priced under $300 in the U.S. had an unpleasant surprise over the weekend: The machine...

The fact that GNU/Linux totally dominates the top 500 supercomputing list is hardly news, but the fact that it has managed to *increase* its...