Previous DayBusiness App of the week on iPhone - Evernote a scrapbook for pros.
Blog I suppose the jury is still out on electronic note taking. Remember the good old PalmPilot days of execs scribbling away in the new Palm script in meetings - however hard you tried a Bic and a...
The New Underdogs And A Ball For A Computer
Blog I have come to believe that a spell as "the underdogs" would bring out all that creative wizardry that is lurking somewhere in the caverns of microsoft. Alas, as is so common in many...
RE:Traveling Success with Linux
Blog Comment My experience with Ubuntu 8.04 is similar. I had some problems with wireless connectivity after upgrading my router's software. By just using the wizards, and not trying to "customize", I got it...
RE:Skype Pursuing "Unarticulated Needs"
Blog Comment Hi Jamie, I'm Scott Durchslag, Skype's new Chief Operating Officer. I know you’ve been highly critical of Skype’s Customer Support, and after looking into it carefully, I think you are right....
Sun unveils JavaFX preview, gloomy outlook
News The company is taking aim at the Flash market online, but harbours few illusions about fiscal 2009 following a dip in revenue
A grave approach to PR
Blog Passed on from the Gamespot guys, who got it in return to a request to the internal PR of a very well-known online search company: ""I've forwarded your response to the chap who deals with that...
Pick of the week: Linux on the road and Vista at sea
Blog Here's a roundup of great posts from this week, with a street-level look at iPhone's MobileMe, a prediction of choppy waters for Microsoft's Vista charm offensive, and Linux on holiday. ...
IBM splashes out on cloud-computing centre
News The company announced the building of the £182m centre shortly after Intel, HP and Yahoo also revealed plans to co-operate on cloud computing
Ten ways to increase your programmers' productivity
Feature Maintaining productivity can be a struggle, yet there are a number of ways to remove the obstacles that may be keeping your developers from working at full capacity
Toshiba Satellite Pro U400-10H
Review The Satellite Pro U400 has a number of strong points, but the battery life, in particular, is disappointing. It could be a good choice if you need a compact notebook that'll spend most of its time...
Build a virtual-machine install directory with WinISO
Tutorial As you start utilising virtual machines, you may want to use WinISO to rid yourself of CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs for installing operating systems and software
Turning the pages
Talkback I read the North Wales Pioneer, Llandudno edition , E-version, and they use Page Suite, which is Macromedia flash. It works very well. I plan on trying out the BL's site very soon, as I am...
A Week Working With Linux
Blog After a short vacation during which I made a traveling test with Linux, which was very successful, I decided to continue the test by using it as much as possible for my work this week. As I have...
Purple Labs snaps up Sagem mobile team
News The software supplier Purple Labs has acquired the mobile application software portfolio and associated management team from Sagen for £20.5m
Flickr founder offers snapshot of Yahoo life
Q&A Having recently left Yahoo, Flickr's parent company, Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts on the inner workings of the web giant and its romance with Microsoft
RE:Social media's double edged sword
Blog Comment Bruce Your pornography quote is one of my favourites, although a paraphrasing of what Justice Potter Stewart actually said. Great all the same. You maybe right on "Web 2.0". But what most people...
EDS shareholders approve HP merger
News Shareholders today agreed the company's proposed merger with HP, while EDS dismissed rumours of a 20 percent reduction of staff in the Americas as 'factually incorrect'
RE:Social media's double edged sword
Blog Comment Web 2.0 Is Like Pornography Like so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references "Web 2.0" as if it were something tangible--or at least a concept with...
The Software What IBM Wrote
Blog Keen to make sure we can all develop applications really good like what they do, IBM has this week started talking about the latest version of its Rational Software Analyser product which ships...
Don't be so dim
Blog Generally, my enthusiasm for Ubuntu remains undimmed. Except for the odd niggle. The only niggle I’ve had is that the display on my lusty old ThinkPad X60s will dim on inactivity and not...
People still don't know!
Blog I have been hustling for freelance work, now that I’m a part-timer at The Ministry. Whoa, that’s the lowest of the low, surely, a contractor and a part-timer? Every morning when I come...
Hush hush
Blog For over a week now, I have been working remotely, Friday 18th July being my last official day of full-time freelance employment at The Ministry. I’m working 3 days a week and 2 of those...
Silverlight: bah
Talkback Annoying that the tax=payer funded British Library is pushing Microsoft proprietary tech. Mind you they were big supporters of OOXML, so MS obviously have someone on the inside. Yours A...
McAfee to acquire data-leakage firm
News The security vendor has revealed plans to acquire Reconnex, claiming the deal will 'redefine the entire data-protection market'
Senior execs turn to social networks for job hunting
News Professional social-networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo are rivalling executive online job boards as a tool for senior executives wanting to progress their careers and find out about new jobs
Privacy watchdog clears Google's Street View
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said it is 'satisfied' the search giant is taking adequate steps to protect people's privacy
O2 announces 'free' broadband offer
News Customers who buy a £20-a-month mobile broadband package will receive the 'up to' 8Mbps home service free for a year, plus a wireless router
Motorola reports unexpected profit
News The company has managed to eke out a small profit as it still struggles to get its handset business back on track
Apple issues patch for critical DNS flaw
News The company has released a security update for its Tiger and Leopard operating systems to address a critical and well-publicised Domain Name System flaw
