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Talkback I don't disagree with your general surmisation that Windows will be around for a long time. However consider these system inputs. What happens when a new netbook costs under £50? How much Windows...
A start
Talkback This must be regarded as no more than the infant start of comprehensive airborne communications, initially rather primitive and accordingly expensive. It is to be hoped that in the not too distant...
RE:Australian State Blows Opportunity to Bring Linux to Educati...
Blog Comment At 2000 AU$ a netbook, that almost equates to £1000 each at current exchange rates. Absolutely Scandalous! That's without taking into account that school IT just consists of learning to use...
RE:FAT replacement licensing must be pragmatic
Blog Comment I'm rather disappointed at how much misunderstanding of the GPL there is here, of all places. If someone produces a GPLd, complete packaged filesystem to replace (and hopefully improve on) FAT and...
Intel passes Moblin on to the Linux Foundation
Blog On Thursday, the non-profit Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it was going to host the Moblin project which aims to develop mobile Linux-based applications. Moblin was a project under...
Scientists use virus to help build battery
News Researchers have used a genetically modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars
Robot scientist makes gene discovery
Photo UK researchers have created a robot, 'Adam', that they believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings
AMD faces $50m bill for restructuring
News Cost-cutting measures mean the chipmaker, which has lost ground to Intel, will have a multimillion-dollar outlay in the first three months of this year
Google lifts the lid on its once-secret server
Feature The search giant designs and builds its own servers and, for the first time, it has publicly unveiled one, showing a surprise built-in battery
Microsoft's Web 2.0 plans for the enterprise
Video Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, explains how the company's plans to apply Web 2.0 technology to the enterprise
Goodmail adds streaming video to email service
News The company has launched CertifiedVideo, an email service that embeds streaming videos into messages
Windows will take a long time dying
Talkback Nice theory. Personally, I like Linux. But I don't let that blind me to the reality that I'm highly atypical of the average user. You're right that will take a tremendous effort for MS to prise...
Amazon puts Hadoop data-crunching in the cloud
News Customers can use the new Amazon MapReduce to pay only for the capacity they use as they perform tasks such as indexing the web, mining data or conducting financial analysis
Zero-day PowerPoint flaw gives rise to attacks
News Hackers are trying to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in the Office software, leading Microsoft to issue a warning and workarounds
Palm: What WebOS promises for developers
Video At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm gives more details about its development platform, part of the company's bid to revive its smartphone fortunes
Skype for blackberry must arrive soon!
Blog Skype recently launched on the iPhone. I’d really welcome a Skype client on other Smart Phones even if it just works on wi-fi networks for now... I’m currently a blackberry user so when will...
Ten reasons why Linux will oust Windows
Comment The interest stirred up by the impending launch of Windows 7 is too little and too late to halt the inexorable rise of Linux, says Jack Wallen
Burning the Ships
Review Companies' IP strategies will have to evolve along with technology. This book is a chance to learn from Microsoft's version of that evolution.
Data is plural
Blog Reading through Bill Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors recently I was delighted to find that the much revered author had taken the trouble to list “Data” under his D chapter. His entry...
RIM delivers solid Q4 results on BlackBerry sales
News Research In Motion has reported strong fourth-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations and sent shares soaring in after-hours trading
RE:BlackBerry App World
Blog Comment At least you are able to access Blackberry Apps. Vodafone UK are apparently having problems with (some?) Storm customers who cannot access the store at all. Very frustrating. Reading around I have...
Microsoft bets on Web 2.0 office apps for business
News At a Web 2.0 conference, business division executive Stephen Elop talked about why Microsoft believes putting office applications on the web will pay off
EC welcomes swift take-up of in-flight mobile comms
News Europe now has 27 aircraft equipped to allow passengers to use their mobiles in-flight, and the number of planes enabled for use of mobiles is expected to double by the end of 2009
Australian State Blows Opportunity to Bring Linux to Education
Blog If you haven't read the news, the Australian state of New South Wales has signed a deal to deploy 267,000 Windows netbooks into secondary schools, as part of the Australian federal government's...
