Facebook Goes Public Facebook's IPO and the drama that followed has been this week's biggest news. The world's largest social networking service, which is quickly approaching its billionth registered member milestone, saw its...

Enabled by the Obama administration, America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is on the brink of rolling out a specialist electronic surveillance unit with the power to spy on Skype conversations and other Internet...

The concept of "confidence" in any client supplier relationship can be a difficult thing to measure, but it's importance cannot be under-estimated. For CIOs looking to entrust their most critical applications to a third party,...

Presence information is an essential component of the Office 365 Lync offering. When using any Instant Messenger (IM), there are built-in status options that a user can set to broadcast whether they are available for an IM or...

Mobile phone support for Lync 2010 in Office 365 was addressed on 11 December 2011 when Microsoft released the first version, completely transforming communication in the mobile phone space. In this article, we take a quick look...

Someone, somewhere in Microsoft HQ in Redmond must have uttered a maniacal, guttural laugh on learning the news that Google wanted to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The deal has now been closed and effectively makes...

The prevalence of spell checking on computers and mobile phones has created a generation of adults so reliant on auto-predict technologies that they are unable to spell common words such as ‘necessary' and...

In my last post I gave a brief account of the history of the Internet: early IP allocation principles, the creation of the World Wide Web, the emergence of the current Regional Internet Registry (RIR) system and its role in...

Exchange ActiveSync is a protocol optimised to work with the mobile phone provider's high-latency and low bandwidth networks and enables the mobile phone user to access their Exchange e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks even...

Threat mitigation specialist Cryptzone has welcomed the news that the Department of Health plans to relocate NHS patient data and services online in the near future, but is warning the government that a high-level of...

At the launch of Office 365, many felt that its mobile phone support was limited both in functionality (Exchange 2010 only) and the devices supported. Indeed, compatibility extended only to: Windows Phone 7.5 and...

For years, Augmented Reality has been a technology threatening to happen. Like it's cousin, virtual reality, it's something of a science-fiction staple, and a technology that has been hovering on the sidelines for at least a...

The monitor you are using right now probably came bundled with your desktop PC, or maybe you bought it back when 1,240 by 1,024 pixels was considered high resolution. Since you spend a huge part of everyday looking at it,...

Every so often, Microsoft releases an eye-roller that invites plenty of criticism. A lot of it has to do with the committee approach and the fear of failure among Microsoft middle managers. Also, there appears to be meddling by...

A real-life enigma machine used in World War II was on display at the Earls Court InfoSec Conference. Dr James Grime of Cambridge University explained how the iconic device was used by Nazi Germany to send secret messages during...