Previous DayGoogle Gears and Security concerns
Talkback Google announced that it will offer offline access to Google Docs. But there have been many security concerns over the Gears database on how it stores the files and how bad it can get if a...
162 Million Web Sites & Counting
Blog According to the latest numbers from Net trackers Pingdom, there are more than 162 million Web sites publishing on the Internet today. We have come a long way since the first baby steps of the...
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Talkback Charles- Excellent article. You are doing a great service to people who can’t run these tests on their own. I work for NComputing and would like to add a few comments based on what we have seen in...
Easynet launches managed telepresence service
News The high-end videoconferencing technology will now be available to companies that don't want to pay large up-front costs for the kit
Laptop makers adopt 3G Gobi chipset
News Dell, HP and Lenovo are among the laptop manufacturers planning to adopt a Qualcomm chipset that will work with HSPA and EV-DO networks worldwide
Gartner: Open source will quietly take over
News Open source will soon be in every organisation predicts a Gartner report, although IT managers may not be aware it is happening
Making it harder to catch criminals
Talkback Just a thought: Currently with magnetic media (conventional hard drives) even overwriting data still leaves a trace which can be recovered by police forensic techniques. I don't think this would be...
Intel Classmate PC (9in.)
Review Intel has tweaked the Classmate PC to appeal to first-world schoolchildren, and it now offers an experience on a par with mini-notebooks such as the ASUS Eee.
Security specialists, criminals, military, & backdoors
Talkback From my point of view, I’d expect that pretty much ANY of the major OS’s would be reasonably secure, with a patching effort being undertaken once vulnerabilities are made aware. This would lead me...
Great if you're getting a new device, but...
Talkback essentially useless to the rest of the mobile computing community who have WM devices already. The biggest issue I have about mobile computing with Windows Mobile is that typically you cannot...
LifeSize Express
Review As an entry point into high-definition video conferencing (telepresence), LifeSize Express is hard to beat. It's a standalone solution that occupies the middle ground between PC-plus-webcam systems...
Shell accused of 'dumping' IT staff
News Trade union Unite says the oil giant is keeping staff in the dark over their future following its £4bn outsourcing deals
Tories attack gov't over cybercrime delay
News Shadow home secretary David Davis has criticised the government's failure to provide £1.3m to fund a national e-crime policing unit
"they need to start new.."
Talkback I agree. But lets have a look. The developement of Linux started more than 15 years ago. And "they" had a head start as it was based on Unix, a proved multi-user multitasking system. Windows was...
