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Blog Comment Well by what is happening in UK Politics at the moment, politicians are looking less than honest in their financial dealings with tax payers money. Can we trust them to implement the big words...
Why Bing is not the Wave of the future
Leader If Microsoft is so powerful, why does it leave it to Google to innovate?
AMD launches 'Istanbul' six-core processors
News The new Opteron processors are aimed at the high-performance computing and virtualisation markets
Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web
News Even though the web is becoming the dominant development environment for applications, online performance still has a way to go, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin
Adobe offers Flash Catalyst for testing
News Programmers can now get their hands on a beta for the new design and development tool, as well as Flash Builder, the IDE successor to Flex Builder
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog VMware's vSphere 4.0, released just over a month ago, is aimed at helping VMware stay at least two steps ahead of Microsoft, now its biggest competitor in the virtualisation market; VMware's...
ASUS Eee PC 1008HA
Review ASUS has reinvented its iconic netbook in the shape of the slim, attractive Eee PC 1008HA. It's a bold experiment that largely works.
Sun adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris
News A new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology are designed to put the open-source OS on an footing alongside Solaris
From The Labs: A look at Windows 7's XP mode
Video Kicking off a series of bulletins from ZDNet UK's Labs, Charles McLellan looks at the virtual copy of Windows XP that's available as an option in Windows 7
Dell cans its Mini 9 netbook
Blog Dell has stopped selling 8.9-inch netbooks, focusing instead on netbooks with screen sizes of 12 inches and above. Visitors to Dell's UK website on Monday found the 'Mini' netbook page...
Obama to appoint US cybersecurity co-ordinator
News The president has warned that the US government is 'not as prepared' as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by cyberattacks
Bing! goes live.
Blog Today, Microsoft have got around to soft launching their new search engine, Bing! Seems OK although a little bit too noisy for me I find the images distracting but I suppose they had to do...
Psion settles Intel 'netbook' trademark suit
News The PDA manufacturer has settled its suit against Intel over the use of the word 'netbook', and will no longer object to use of the term
MS in Panic Mode
Talkback It has been a long time since I have seen Microsoft running scared like this, and operating in "panic mode". After having pushed the release of Windows 7 forward as far as they possibly can,...
Word 2007
Member Review The UI on Word 2007 looks like something designed for kindergarden children. Big icons, lots of color & clutter. If you are familiar with earlier versions of Word, WordPro, WordPerfect etc......
Microsoft Office Standard 2007
Member Review The UI is not dramatically different to Office 2003; it is just dramatically poor. It is totally unintuitive; things that should be grouped together (e.g. inserting any different type of object)...
US army servers breached by Turkish hackers
News Investigators believe hackers used an SQL injection attack to break into US army servers and redirect visitors to other sites, according to InformationWeek
Report: BBC, Google discussing international iPlayer
News The broadcaster is said to be in negotiations with Google about the possibility of hosting long-form BBC content on YouTube, according to media reports
Mozilla testing near-final Firefox 3.5
News Release Candidate 1 for Firefox 3.5 could still be weeks away, but a widespread testing day to debug the updated browser was held on Friday
Olympics tickets could double as cash, travel cards
News The London 2012 Games may pioneer smart tickets that can also be used as contactless payment and Oyster travel cards
Microsoft scraps program limit on Windows 7 Starter
News Those running the lowest-cost version of Windows 7 will not be limited to running three simultaneous programs at a time
Qualcomm lines up 30 Snapdragon gadgets
News More than 30 products using the chipmaker's next-generation Snapdragon chipset are already in the pipeline
Dialogue Box 6.6: A first look at Moblin
Video Those seeking to run Linux on their netbook have a new option: Moblin. Rupert and Charles take the beta for a spin and compare it to Ubuntu's netbook remix
Small Business: Project Driven Leadership
Blog Small Business: Project Driven Leadership Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com With the pressures of the economy weighting down on small business owners throughout the world, now is the...
What to expect from Sun's JavaOne 2009
Blog Sun Microsystems didn't let a little thing like being acquired by Oracle get in the way of hosting its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco from June 2 to 5 this year. Thankfully,...
RE:Radical Idea: Charge Vendors for Software Deployed in School...
Blog Comment blackholesun said "Each case should be judged on its own merits, a solid business case / benefit to education should be developed for the adoption of OSS. This itself would have to be done at a...
Bare metal hypervisors: a group test
Group Test Over the past few years, virtualisation has become a viable option to thin down datacentres in terms of physical size, heat output and cost. Here we examine three leading hypervisors.
