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Talkback Unlike home users, it is costly for enterprise to upgrade, it's not just a case of insert the CD and you're done; there's data migration, software from other vendors which might not immidiately be...
Government funds sat-nav integration project
News De Montfort University and a Nottingham company have got £113,000 of funding to build a navigation device able to work with GPS, Galileo and all rival satellite systems
UK company launches virtual private servers
News A low-cost virtual private server service aimed at small companies has been launched, which supports Windows and Linux
Google: OOXML still insufficient and unnecessary
Blog I'd write this up as a story proper, except it's a no-change statement. Google's response to the passage of Microsoft's OOXML as an ISO standard (pending appeals) is: Along with much of the...
There is no tech silver bullett
Talkback Hey Zeebs, Thanks for your comments. Policies and the right tech are definitely an important part of the story but I think that what Debi was really pushing is that they are not the whole story by...
Dr. IBM prescribes Blue Gene to hunt down HIV
Blog It’s not often that you hear the acronyms IBM and HIV in the same sentence, but news from Big Blue is that the company is working with the University of Edinburgh on a research project to use...
EC investigating Microsoft over OOXML
News The Commission is questioning Microsoft and some European countries to find out whether the company abused its market position in its efforts to get OOXML standardised
Vista struggles to attract enterprise users
Talkback Replacing XP with VISTA is like taking a step backward, with all the new memory, and hardware requirements, not to mention compatibility problems. As far as IE7 adoption, IE7 is IE6 in a new...
Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 beta is faster and lighter
News The newly released fifth beta of Firefox 3 shows speed increases thanks to advances in connection parallelism, while testing suggests the browser's memory leakage has been fixed
Intel launches next-generation Classmate PC
News The chipmaker claims the research-led upgrade to its low-cost educational laptop is sensitive to local needs but has worldwide potential
Isn't it time processors were re-designed to take advantage...
Talkback Why don't processors add another bus: so that the operating system, current configuration and main (most used) apps. can reside in FLASH. This would give a step increase in speed, plus, instant on.
RE:OOXML standard will tarnish ISO
Blog Comment `The point is that ISO believes in what it does. It works this way, because it is convinced this is the best way to make standards. It will say that it is above grubby controversies, while actually...
But the problem is lack of awareness
Talkback As part of my role, I used to monitor network traffic and behaviour looking for trends, thus being able to head off prospective problems so they never occurred. I got laid off as an unnecessary...
Response
Talkback I agree that the "stupid users" should not be punished. Organisation with these threats and risks need to enforce the policies with security technology that removes the threat. Dont rely on a...
Observations on your interview techniques
Talkback By your standards, though generally fine in themselves, you would have failed in some areas and with some, if not startling, certainly bemusing and unforeseen results. Newton, beyond all debate,...
London event to focus on Web 2.0 accessibility
News The Accessibility 2.0 event will address the difficulties posed by Web 2.0 apps for those with disabilities or using handheld devices
Photos: Windows Mobile 6.1
Photo Windows Mobile 6.1 has some useful new features, but is essentially a stop-gap while we wait for version 7.
Lastminute development 'guru' joins Huddle
News Online collaboration website Huddle.net has snapped up Lastminute.com's director of software development Jonathan Howell to head up its technology practice as CTO
Intel to launch 160GB SSD this year
News The chipmaker has confirmed plans to launch solid state drives this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai
NHS procures encryption software
News Connecting for Health has completed the procurement of McAfee's SafeBoot software for use throughout the NHS
Tech Up Your Sales Presentation With New Blood
Blog A successful presentation never makes anyone sleepy, and the ending applause isn't the ringing to wake up. Maybe every presenter knows the rule, but not eveyone knows the solution. Certainly...
Local gov't CIOs to shape national IT policy
News Socitm has set up a UK-wide body that will meet three times a year to allow local-government issues to be put on the national CIO agenda
IT fault causes millions to pay incorrect tax
News HM Revenue & Customs has admitted that its Paye computer systems experienced difficulties coping with people who had more than one job
Vista struggles to attract enterprise users
News Microsoft's latest operating system boasted just 6.3 percent of enterprise users by the end of last year, while the company also appears to be losing ground in the browser market
Windows Mobile 6.1
Video Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 is a small upgrade to the mobile operating system that brings easier setup and improvements to Interenet Explorer
