We might be in a recession guys but it would appear that Britain's recession-hit population would rather cut back on eating out and holidays than give up their broadband, mobile phone and pay-TV services, according to a new report from the media regulator - Ofcom. Other services which seem to be seen these days as essencial are digital video recorders and mobile broadband internet.  

Yet another Friday Folks with the weekend fast approaching and yet another IT project has fallen by the way side this time a national crime system for the Police, Anti-terror and SOCA - with £24 million already spent the government have closed the purse on yet another expensive folly. Alan Johnson was in Manchester yesterday promoting the National identity scheme, you know the scheme nobody wants, according to the government however this has been very successful in its take up with the public (they won't release figures though).

Speaking to an NHS customer recently, I was surprised to hear that they didn't have any patch management solution in place on their Windows network (not even the free WSUS service from Microsoft). The reason given was that the customer "couldn't afford it".