Unlocked court papers show email trail High-ranking Microsoft and Intel executives were involved in a plan to re-write the Windows Vista Capable program to save both companies - and OEMs - millions of dollars, according to unsealed court documents.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 14 November 2008 at 15:49:00 Taylors of Harrogate introduces reporting and production tools in a bid to improve efficiency Tea and coffee manufacturer Taylors of Harrogate is implementing a series of enhancements to its supply chain systems to improve production and project management workloads. Trials for an advanced scheduling system across Taylors' Yorkshire Tea, coffee and speciality tea divisions will start in January, and the software is expected to be fully implemented by June. The system is expected to improve the company's management of product shelf life, maturation times, storage restrictions and...Read More »

'Buttons are proud and vain, not plain' Amish farmers attempts to prevent RFID tags being used in cattle have been attacked by the US Department of Agriculture on the grounds that it's not mandatory, and therefore can't be considered a breach of religious rights.… Full published article at: Read More »

Laptop cloud backup You will soon be able to backup content on your Carphone Warehouse laptop to a data centre in the cloud, as Carphone W has signed a deal with Spare Backup.… Full published article at: Read More »

New network approved, needs paying for While the white space vote might have got all the attention last week - along with that other vote - the FCC also approved the creation of "New Clearwire" and it turns out that the two votes could well prove complementary.… Full published article at: Read More »

Third false alarm follows upgrade offer AVG, the popular anti-virus package, has falsely identified Adobe Flash as potentially malicious. The snafu comes just days after AVG slapped a bogus Trojan warning on a core Windows component.… Full published article at: Read More »

Operators scramble for a piece of the pie Despite its co-dependent relationship with the iPhone, O2 UK plans to launch its own developer community and app store next year, which could put non-Apple handsets in a better position to compete with the iPhone and its App Store.… Full published article at: Read More »

And deny calling in Mandelson The executives in charge of Nominet, the not-for-profit company responsible for the .uk web address registry, have rejected calls from elected directors to resign and face a vote of confidence from members.… Full published article at: Read More »

German cracker now faces US DDoS-for-hire charges Games developer Valve worked with the FBI to set up a sting operation to capture a suspected hacker soon after source code for Half Life 2 leaked onto P2P networks in 2003.… Full published article at: Read More »

Something's got to give - and it did Before the markets opened on Wall Street this morning, Sun Microsystems did what most of us expected it would soon do after years of flatline revenues and a lack of profits or losses in many quarters: slash the employee headcount again, and this time a little deeper to appease investors and to get back to profitability.… Full published article at: Read More »