Previous DayRE:Netbook market? What netbook market?
Blog Comment What really gets me is that people are being duped into buying these more "fully featured" net books for £330 plus. Way too much for being stuck backwards in time with an atom processor. OK it's...
Phorm ......
Blog A symptom, a disease, a sign of the time, or just the way thing are or are going to be? There is plenty of lively debate on other forums but ZDNet and it's readers remain relatively quiet and,...
Blunkett: UK losing faith in ID cards
News A single, compulsory document combining passport and driving licence would prove more popular than the proposed ID card, according to David Blunkett
Vodafone launches 50p PAYG daily surfing rate
Blog Vodafone has launched a deal for its pay-as-you-go customers that gives them a day's internet access on their handsets for 50p. Rival operators T-Mobile and Orange provide the same sort of...
RE:Netbook market? What netbook market?
Blog Comment Here in Austin, scooters are just about everywhere, especially downtown. Most of them have larger motors than 50cc, requiring a license, but they are still smaller than a "normal" motorcycle....
Windows 7 'Brain Dead Edition' (aka Starter Edition)
Blog I've just read an excellent blog about Microsoft's plans to try to hoodwink consumers with "Windows 7 Starter Edition" on netbooks. It is clear that Windows 7 can't compete with Linux on netbooks...
Acer shows off 11.6-inch netbook
Photo ZDNet UK has been given a preview of Acer's latest netbook, the Aspire One 751, which is larger than most of its netbook competitors
Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair
News The last of the replacement magnets has been installed for a section of the LHC that suffered an electrical fault and helium leak last September
Blunkett warns of broadband fallout
Video At Infosecurity 2009, David Blunkett tells ZDNet UK that increased broadband access will lead to more cybersecurity issues
Tories highlight flaw in gov't comms data plans
News The Conservatives have raised concerns about who will have access to communications-traffic data, but welcome a halt to plans for a single, centralised database
Increase awareness of the control and management of usb devi...
Talkback Great move Microsoft! This is increasing general awareness of the need to control and manage the usage of usb devices within businesses. Many of these business are in need of such solutions now...
Ten top Linux and open-source developer tools
Comment Jack Wallen selects 10 outstanding tools that will help take your Linux and open-source development to another level
Outlook breaks with
Talkback Just a quick heads up for those of you in the unlucky position of providing office 2007 for your staff, please note that the recently released service pack 2 results in a non-working outlook. As...
Firms fail to recognise Web 2.0 cost-saving potential
News As companies tend to view Web 2.0 investments as an experimental cost, they are likely to overlook it during the current economic downturn, say analysts
Newbuntu, old problem
Blog A clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my old PC-under-the-desk led to a problem with the Firefox HTML validation tool HTML Validator by Marc Gueury. Luckily no-one at ZDNet Towers has managed to spring...
Facebook fends off two days of phishing attacks
News After fighting off two days of attacks from phishing worms designed to steal people's usernames and passwords, the site is investigating whether the incidents are related
Reports: Oracle planning more web-based software
News The company is developing new online products in what could signal a shift in focus from traditional software to SaaS, reports say
Don't know your dongle from your cookie?
Blog You are not alone. A company called the Gadget Helpline has done a survey of more than 5,000 people and found that many of us find tech words confusing. Of course I don't mean us. Clearly...
SAP users win deal over support price hikes
News The SAP User Group Network has secured an agreement whereby the company must meet a set of key performance indicators to justify the price rises it proposed last year
Excellent post
Talkback Concur with all arguments made. In the end, it's incumbent on all users, yes even Microsoft's users, to support strong competition to Microsoft. It's the only way they will bother to improve their...
Ubuntu 9.04 and the Desktop
Blog Installed U 9.04 on my P3 COMPAQ Enpro little mini-desktop.I've always wished for more resolution and cleaner video out of it. Finally wish fulfilled! The video driver seems to be absolutely...
