These days, all big companies — and most medium-sized companies — are software companies. By this I mean that the company’s software (particularly custom software they’ve made) and associated data is integral to the success of their business. And: The fact that every company is a software company has implications. The most important is that software is something companies have to understan...

The flash crash of May 6 was sparked by a large sell order for index futures contracts by a single investor to hedge against the risk of a stock market downturn, according to a report by leading US regulators

Just ferried daughter Myra to school for some kind of photo call ahead of the general opening of results at 10 am. With cheery dad banter: Will they have two groups of students? "And these students have done brilliantly!" ;) flash :) blick ;) flash, "Whereas these wretches have got straight Es" :( :( :(. How she laughed!LoL site feed

This site provides free access to a 13 page Eurobarometer flash report (EB 266)which was published in March 2009. It presents the results of a public opinion survey conducted (mainly by telephone) on a sample of more than 35,000 women and 5,500 men, with the aim of discovering the perception that women have of politics in general, their image of the European Union, attitudes towards the European P...

From The Metro: Fears that new Google software will spy on workers The internet giant is marketing its Latitude download as a way for friends to keep in touch or for anxious parents to keep tabs on their children. Google has been accused of putting a spy in everyone's pocket by launching software which maps the location of mobile phone users anywhere in the world... A spokesman for data watch...

Here is the Libertarian Purity Test. If you think you might be a Libertarian but aren't sure why not give it a try? Of course it isn't black and white, you may find you have libertarian tendencies or that you are actually an authoritarian statist! Be warned it is American.

The first user reviews of China’s Green Dam PC censorship software are in. It appears to be utter shite. The true purpose of this software is to get money from the government. This software company obviously has some kind of...

The decision by the US military to ban the use of all flash drives, CDs or other mobile devices to fight a virus that has already infected thousands of government computers is yet another illustration of the cyber challenge confronting America. The Agent virus, a variant of the SillyFDC worm, infects networks and then automatically goes out to the Web to download various tools that can search for ...

Fortify Software, a software security assurance specialist, says that the Conservative party is misguided in its criticism of the UK government over its lack of support for open source software.

Yes, I thought I might have a go at this.  Some libertarian blogger or other, whose call sign, though well known to me, has slipped from my mind, commenting on something I wrote recently, somewhere, said something along the lines of: “There are lots of libertarian bloogers out there.  Lots of us.” Well, how many?  To put it another way, how well is the libertarian moveme...