Debian: 'We're almost there' Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian – codename Lenny – could be delayed until June 2009. Based on the number of outstanding release-critical bugs and the time it has taken to fix them on previous releases, Debian developer Bastian Venthur estimated it will take a further eight or nine months to bring Lenny up to release quality.… Full published article at: Read More »

Volunteers asked to put anger into words Volunteer mountain-rescue staff in Scotland are being asked to write to the UK regulator Ofcom to complain about increased spectrum prices that could drive them out of the life-saving business.… Full published article at: Read More »

Blames The Meltdown Imation has issued preliminary third quarter figures badly affected by the financial market turmoil in September.… Full published article at: Read More »

Domain vuln + frame injection = dead ringer spoof pages Google's Gmail service suffers from security flaws that make it trivial for attackers to create authentic-looking spoof pages that steal users' login credentials, a security expert has demonstrated. Google Calendar and other sensitive Google services are susceptible to similar tampering.… Full published article at: Read More »

Phil Muncaster, Computing, Friday 10 October 2008 at 16:09:00 Science and Technology Committee debates progress on Personal Internet Security report The House of Lords has renewed calls on the government to act on several recommendations made in its Personal Internet Security report (PDF), including new data breach notification laws and a 'kitemark' scheme to rate secure internet services. Lord Broers, chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, said during a debate to discuss recommendations made in the 2007 report and its Read More »

It’s all in the recipe Reg Reader Workshop One criticism levelled at Agile methodologies for software development is that of scale. “It’s all very well for very small projects,” we have been told, “but for anything above 10 people, you can forget it.” So, how true is this?… Full published article at: Read More »

But with whose cash? In a shameless effort to show that someone in the financial services industry is still investing in technology - and relatively exotic new blade server technology at that - IBM has announced that brokerage house Merrill Lynch, soon to be part of the Bank of America behemoth after running into BoA's welcoming arms in mid-September.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari and Bryan Glick, Computing, Friday 10 October 2008 at 17:59:00 Theft that affected BSkyB staff also contained data from Network Rail and British Transport Police Consultancy firm Deloitte has admitted that the loss of a laptop containing BSkyB staff pension details also included information about pension scheme members from Network Rail and British Transport Police. The laptop theft – revealed exclusively by Computing yesterday – contained details of more than 100,000 people, including names, national insurance numbers and salaries. BskyB told Computing that the laptop was protected by a number of security...Read More »

Rosalie Marshall, Computing, Friday 10 October 2008 at 12:34:00 Indian outsourcing firm posts strong second-quarter results Infosys, India's second largest software firm, has produced a strong set of financial results for its second quarter, and believes that the recession will work in its favour. While the rupee depreciates, Infosys' profits increased 17 per cent compared to the same period last year. For the three months ended 30 September 2008, the firm reported profits of $320m, in accordance with international financial reporting standards. Infosys' second-quarter revenue reached $1.2bn, a 19 per cent increase since the end of...Read More »

Video software problems to blame? Software issues affecting the BlackBerry Bold appear to have spurred Orange to suspend all UK sales of the 3G handset.… Full published article at: Read More »