Previous DayFlock not about to take wing
Blog There have been a few reports that Flock, the "social media" browser, which is currently based on Mozilla's codebase, will be switching to Google's Chromium codebase for its next release. This...
Apple goes greener in new desktops
News The company says its new Mac Pros with Intel's Nehalem Xeon chips, Mac Minis and iMacs all meet the latest Energy Star power-efficiency guidelines
Where'd all the Green IT go?
Blog Last year the CeBIT tech show in Germany had a small but worthy Green IT section. This year they decided to give it more space. Here's the result: Now, is this verdant wasteland the result...
And how many illiterates among them?
Talkback They are over 850 millions (probably a billion) people on the planet who can’t read and write. You would think that all these high tech companies would invest serious money to educate all these...
Why scammers find rich pickings on Facebook
Comment People shed their normal caution on social networking sites, leaving the scammers and worm-writers to rub their hands with glee, says Mary Landesman
Inside IBM's only European Cloud Centre
Photo A visit inside IBM's cloud-computing facility in Dublin, where the lack of hardware belies the efforts to experiment with crunching data in the cloud
Four years on, nothing's changed.
Talkback We're setting up ISDN30 and due to the distance from the exchange it'll have to come in over fibre. I've checked with many different BT departments, and it seems there's still no option that'll...
Displacement theory
Blog I have an absolute stack of accounts to do, way overdue and way lost in the move. So, what better displacement activity than installing new software in Ubuntu? Enter the SuperCollider. It's...
Coders urged to take up open source in downturn
News The president of the Free Software Foundation Europe has called on companies and out-of-work IT professionals to use the recession as an opportunity to turn away from proprietary strategies
RE:Newham CIO sheds light on Microsoft relationship
Blog Comment Timely, this - here at CeBIT, I just asked the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, Georg Greve, what he thought of the suggestion that open source lagged behind proprietary software....
Photos: dual-screen concept notebook from ASUS
Photo At CeBIT 2009, ASUS shows off a concept system with dual displays.
Asus to phase out 7-inch Eee PC netbooks
News Asus's chairman, who has denied that the 8.9-inch Eee PC is being dropped, has confirmed that it is abandoning the seven-inch version that launched the Eee brand
The place to check evidence is in courts
Talkback Isn't that the point, there are so many things that are unproven, one way or another, that it needs to all be brought in to the open, and isn't that where the public forum of the courts are needed....
Sixty percent of the world uses mobile phones
News Over half world's population now has a mobile phone, and a quarter of humanity is on the internet, according to a United Nations survey
Newham CIO sheds light on Microsoft relationship
Blog Richard Steel, the chief information officer of Newham Borough Council, and president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), created quite a stir on the Socitm blog last week...
Nvidia, AMD announce new graphics chips
News Nvidia says the chips use less power than its previous products, while AMD launches what its calls its most compact graphics chip architecture
Qt pushes for wider cross-platform interest
Blog Munich last autumn saw me miss the Oktoberfest by just a few days as I came in about a week behind the ‘Oompa bands’ for Qt’s Developer Days event. Since that time the Nokia subsidiary has...
Asus is heart touching no more
Blog Asus has, I am sad to report, abandoned its motto, "Rock Solid. Heart Touching". At CeBIT this year, the PC manufacturer unveiled the far less evocative "Inspiring Innovation. Persistent...
Microsoft testers trial Live Search update
News 'Kumo', Microsoft's revamped search tool, is about to begin internal testing at Redmond
Microsoft's Surface expands to 12 new markets
News The Surface computer, which responds to touch and hand gestures, is to be marketed in a dozen territories in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Head of internet-oversight group to step down
News Icann chief executive Paul Twomey announces that he will be stepping down at the end of 2009
Android phone takes 20pc of T-Mobile contracts
News The Google phone and mobile broadband dongle sales had a 'positive impact' on the second half of T-Mobile's 2008, the operator said as it announced its latest financial results
RE:HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Comment @fancollo: Thanks for reading and commenting. You're right, it is very frustrating, in particular because I expected the installation on the new Mini-Note to be so easy, and the different screen...
Scary the way M.S. Behaves themselfs.
Talkback It seems that Open Source is a bigger threat to M.S. than they ever thought. This with 'software patent' is silly only. How can you take a patent on specific part of the Linux kernel, as M.S....
