Previous DayMicrosoft US-UK ripoff again!
Talkback Windows 7 advance purchase in US $49.95 . Guess what - in the UK £49.95.
Nasa hacker petition presented to Number 10
Blog Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US. Styler, and Sharp, who is McKinnon's...
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers
Lenovo ThinkStation S20
Review This is a well-built workstation with quad-core power to spare, although it could do with more storage options.
Software patents, and how to route around them
Blog Microsoft recently used its patents on some aspects of the FAT filesystem to beat TomTom into submission, with the latter ending up having to change its products, pay Microsoft and license some of...
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern
RE:Increase Your Performance! No, I didn't mean it like that…
Blog Comment Hi Adrian I guess I am one of those performance management specialists that also happend to work for dynaTrace. I assume you are talking about our Community Portal where our customers can not only...
FCO drops Ocean telecoms network
News The FCO has withdrawn a tender, worth up to £2.5bn, for a next-generation telecoms network to replace the Government Secure Intranet and other services
From The Labs: HP ProBook 4310s
Video The latest addition to HP's stylish yet affordable ProBook range gets the once-over in ZDNet Labs
Increase Your Performance! No, I didn't mean it like that…
Blog Usually whenever I get an email with a subject line that contains the term “Increase Your Performance” - I tend to file it under junk, spam and filth if it hasn´t been directed towards that route...
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID
Blog Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved, would...
Google adds global address list to Apps suite
News The company has also made it possible for enterprise and education users of Google Apps to share templates for documents, spreadsheets and presentations internally
Can tech giants talk you out of your datacentre?
Comment Several vendors are racing to build datacentres that will enable them to offer more internet-based services to consumers and enterprises over the next 10 years
US launches probe into Google Books settlement
News Investigators with the US Justice Department will investigate whether Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws
BA saves £2m as tech staff work for free
News British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has credited techies for being among the 7,000 of BA's 40,000 staff who helped the company save cash by cutting back on hours or pay
Apple readies patch for iPhone SMS flaw
News A vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the handset, turn on the microphone, or turn the phone into botnet zombie
Windows 7 may offer a 'Family Pack'
News Enthusiasts have spotted wording in a leaked test build of the operating system that suggests Microsoft may offer a three-PC deal with the new Windows
NoSQL and the monster mutation
Blog Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the...
Its a Choice not a Chicken.
Talkback I guess the point is that every programmer that works on Mono or any Open Source project is doing it by choice. Heck even the programmers working for Microsoft have made a choice. The issue I see...
