Previous DayEIOffice Competitive Upgrade
Blog Evermore Software (www.evermoresw.com) is currently offering EIOffice as a competitive upgrade at only $14.95 + VAT for the Personal Edition, both Windows and Linux versions are included in the...
Acer One Runs Vista! But Not For Long.
Blog Yes I kid you not. I've been doing some work for a reseller of late and one of the items that I came across was a 4 gb Acer one net book with an install of vista running. The machine had come in...
Something you may not know about Mindtree...
Talkback We're well familiar with Mindtree. Its corporate anthem, "Imagination, Action, Joy" once featured on ZDNet. http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,2129390,00.htm And the...
Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
News Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum
Registrations open for .tel domains
News Trademark holders can now register their .tel domain addresses, which serve as an unusual online repository for contact information
RE:Date set for McKinnon extradition judicial review
Blog Comment Hi Roger, As far as I understand it, the Home Secretary has the power to intervene in the appeals process. There are various criminal courts in the UK, staring with magistrates. Appeals are then...
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings
RIM lowers outlook as sales disappoint
News The BlackBerry-smartphone has reduced sales expectations for its third fiscal quarter, citing economic troubles in the US
Silverlight goes Linux with Moonlight 1.0
News A version of Microsoft's Silverlight, a media player for rich web content, is now available for users of certain Linux distributions
ManageSoft tackles virtual licences
Blog An upgrade to software from software asset management company, ManageSoft, offers tools for possibly reducing the cost of software licenses on virtual systems and addresses the issues raised. ...
Microsoft's Firefox surprise
Leader The software giant has released a Firefox plug-in. We'll just repeat that: Microsoft has released a Firefox plug-in
Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel
News The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code
Microsoft scrambles to resolve cashback glitch
News The company is trying to resolve matters after a glitch prevented people getting a 40 percent-cashback deal on purchases made on HP.com
Nokia completes Symbian acquisition
News The completion of the buyout means the recently created Symbian Foundation can start taking the operating system closer to its open-source future
Nokia updates mapping, messaging services
News The company has launched the latest version of Nokia Maps and its Nokia Messaging client, as it tries to build its mobile-services business
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced
40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source
Blog By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a roadmap launched...
Microsoft puts datacentres on wheels
News The company has extends its building-block approach for quickly assembling modular datacentres
RE:BBC/ITV/C4 Kangaroo scheme 'anti-competitive'
Blog Comment > I rather like the idea of doing away with my TV set and taking all my > viewing online. If you don't mind poor quality pictures, then sure. iPlayer transcodes are nowhere near even standard...
First Windows 7 beta expected in January
News A Microsoft developer blog suggests Beta 1 of the software maker's upcoming operating system will be ready by next month
Cambridge IT managers talk virtualisation, cloud
Photo At the College IT Conference, the IT managers of the ancient Cambridge and Oxford colleges met to discuss common problems and opportunities
Photos: O2 Xda Zest
Photo The Xda Zest is O2's first Windows Mobile smartphone to be offered on Pay & Go as well as Pay Monthly.
Wi-Fi traffic averages 1m minutes a day
News BT has reported a doubling in use of its wireless services, with the telco recording its first ever 10 million-minute week during September
Microsoft to broaden Vista SP2 testing
News Starting on Thursday, the software giant will make public a test version of the service pack update to its Vista operating system
Apple removes Mac antivirus recommendation
News Apple has removed a statement to customers urging them to use multiple antivirus software utilities, saying Macs are safe 'out of the box'
BBC/ITV/C4 Kangaroo scheme 'anti-competitive'
Blog The multi-channel video-on-demand scheme that is currently known as Project Kangaroo - think an iPlayer that includes not only the BBC but also ITV and Channel 4 - has a problem. The Competition...
O2 reports 'very strong' SME uptake of iPhone 3G
News The company's head of business sales says the enthusiasm of SMEs for Apple's latest device is not yet matched by the corporate world
I've said it before and I'll say it again!
Talkback Soon it will be known who we are (individual identity and all social/ physical network relationships therein), where we are, where we go, who we're with, who we meet and all that we watch, read,...
