Previous DayRE:Symbian keen to ignite USB development interest
Blog Comment Hi there Adrian, to start with I would advise anyone putting their USB cables under tension not to! When you develop these things I expect there must be a choice for the design. Do you let your...
Linux on the Road
Blog As I write this, I am traveling at about 150 km/h on the German autobahn. I am on the Lifebook S6510 laptop, running Ubuntu, connected via wireless broadband. I have spent the past four days in...
Chrome Vs. Firefox
Talkback none of that reall bothers me. i dont use Rss and i dont feel required to use F11 in chrome because its already as minimalistic as the expanded view in IE7 or Firefox. also the only plugins i used...
Micro Focus: IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills
News The skills needed to modernise core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company
Linux distros made IPv6 ready
Blog The Linux Foundation has announced that some of the major Linux distributions have been made IPv6 ready. IPv4 adresses have been running out for a while, and so in 2005 the US federal government...
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News The database component for Amazon's cloud-computing range of services is now out of its private-beta stage, with the company offering limited free usage for the next six months
Hackers run Linux on iPhone
News A hacker group has made the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel, although many of the device's features are not implemented
Why a Firefox fan became a Chrome convert
Comment CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland explains how Chrome lured him away from Firefox, despite the shortcomings of Google's browser
The future of paper
Video At the Palo Alto Research Center, scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing paper to be used dozens of times
Managing internet growth
Video The internet is growing by one zettabyte a year, fuelled by images, videos, gaming and peer-to-peer file sharing. Pieter Poll, CTO of Qwest, examines whether this growth is manageable
EU as one service
Talkback It should by now have been possible for the EU Telecoms Commissioner to have forced the telcos within Europe to form partnerships/amalgamations to enable cross Europe service at one price, whether...
Mobile freedom
Talkback When the mobile operators are able to compare in quality, quantity and reliability and compete in cost with the fixed line providers then they will rapidly capture a lion's share of the market....
CIOs 'out of the loop', survey finds
News Confusion reigns over exactly what a CIO is supposed to do in a company, according to a survey by Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management
Can't have it both ways
Talkback dealers are at present coining it in by the compulsory sale of Windows operating systems on new machines even when it's not wanted, but they seem to think thats OK. But when it comes to selling non...
Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?
Comment The company is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favour of a free package, code-named 'Morro'. Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsoft's motives
What he said ...
Talkback : a few of which must wish they could control the : web in the same way as China, Iran etc .. and Australia don't forget. Oh and I think what you meant was in the way that these countries *think*...
Symbian keen to ignite USB development interest
Blog As welcome as USB was at the time of its introduction in 1996, it has arguably now become such a part of the fabric of the technology landscape that we generally fail to get very excited about it -...
Microsoft in Yahoo search-deal talks, says report
News A report in The Times says the two companies are discussing a deal that would see Microsoft acquire Yahoo's search business for around $20bn
Asian web surfers top for time spent online
News Chinese youths spend more leisure time online than those of any other nation, while Koreans are the most engaged in social networking, a study has found
Intellectual Property Office refreshes web presence
News The relaunched website will include a number of improvements resulting from extensive user consultation
Carl Icahn buys bigger chunk of Yahoo
News The activist investor and member of the company's board has bought up seven million shares of Yahoo over the course of three days
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
News MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed
iPhone-type devices drive operators' strategy
News Mobile operators are banking on iPhone-type handsets to drive mobile web usage, while next year may see more focus on models that specialise in a particular set of functions
Slipping through the digital net
Blog Having just moved house, I had the interesting experience of being without a telephone handset. And my current mobile provider 3 [% coverage] can't always manage to find a network for me either. ...
Dialogue Box 5.2: Building a Nehalem testbed
Video Watch a state-of-the-art desktop PC appear before your very eyes as Rupert and Charles assemble a Core i7 system from a kit of Intel parts
Compliance – Part 1: Software Licensing
Blog Compliance, is rarely fun, more the very the essence of red tape. But ignore it and the consequences can range from a, sometimes public, ticking off to corporate manslaughter charges. In future...
