Jeeves receives his marching orders

Jeeves, the virtual butler and instantly recognisable face of the Ask Jeeves search engine, has been handed his e-P45. In a rebranding exercise the search engine will be known simply as Ask.com. ...more

EC turns to technology to preserve European culture

Concerned that Europe may be falling behind in its efforts to make its cultural heritage available in electronics format, the European Commission is to boost its policy of preserving and exploiting Europe's written and audiovisual heritage. At a time when the Internet and digital technologies are an everyday part of life for European citizens, tapping the potential of our written text, image and sound archives is of major importance in economic terms as much as in cultural terms. Although putting Europe's cultural heritage online is clearly a Good Thing, the driving force is likely to be France. ...more

Storage Expo 2006: Industry missing out on encryption

Companies are missing a free ride on data security accord to speakers at this year's Storage Expo show in London. Data security is still not as important an issue as it should be and users are missing many tricks when it comes to protecting their data. There are easy and free tools to make data more secure but people aren't using them because of ignorance or carelessness. ...more

Help predict global warming on your PC

PC users around the world have the chance to help predict the effects of global warming. The initiative run by climateprediction.net aims to use hundreds of computers, each running their own climate prediction model, to study the likely consequences of climate change over the coming century. ...more

Met Office: Invest in supercomputing to tackle climate change

The UK Met Office has called for increased investment in its computing infrastructure to enable it to maintain its leading role in climate change research. The weather and climate monitoring organisation's research formed a large part of the recent Stern Report, which projected a calamitous economic impact if climate change is not tackled. But, the Met Office says, much more work is needed if it is to fully answer the questions that policy makers and the public are now asking about climate change. ...more