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Archive - 04 Dec 2007

Not good news

Talkback This story rings the alarm bells for me for two reasons. Firstly from a professional point of view as a Sound Engineer, and a personal point of view. This story is about the situation in America,...

Surely, you must win your own competition!

Talkback It's crazy that they would publish a report of this nature, IE might be better that Firefox, but who are Microsoft fooling, do they expect people to believe an internal comparison to be totally...

RE:Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?

Blog Comment I think you'll find the reason that xp machines are more expensive than vista machines is unrelated to the operating system. As with anything if the supply is less the price is higher. It isn't...

The consumer stands to benefit most!

Talkback Their intentions seem good or atleast favourable from a consumer's point of view: if Google wins, whether it's a Google phone or partnerships that they have in mind, expect a free service, probably...

Cell Phone Challenges Driving Network Security Risks

Blog Cell Phone Challenges Driving Network Security Risks By Eric Everson, Founder of MyMobiSafe.com Arguably cell phones have become as integral as computers at the speed of business and...

Vista - so bad, they pay you to take it?

Blog We've noted the lack of fanfare around Vista's unhappy first birthday, but here's a sign of just how bad things are - online stores pay you to take it. Look at Lenovo laptops on Dabs.com (but...

Google gets set for spectrum race

Analysis If the search giant wins the 700MHz wireless spectrum auction in January, expect Google-branded phones galore

Socitm urges councils to go green

News A Society of Information Technology Management report aims to enable councils to minimise their IT's environmental impact

Businesses warned against consumer-class PCs

News Gartner has said that companies trying to cut costs by using cheaper consumer PCs may face a higher total cost of ownership

T-Mobile Germany stops selling unlocked iPhones

News A German court has overturned an injunction that had forced T-Mobile to sell unlocked iPhones in that country

RE:Suse Linux 10.3 I Beleive In You

Blog Comment To answer your first question. If you have CUPS installed, you can open a browser to http://localhost:631 Click to add a new printer. Fill in the name, location, description. In the next screen...

UK companies spurn encryption

News A Check Point survey claims that only 48 percent of UK IT managers use encryption technology to secure their data

Red Hat announces real-time additions to Linux

News The open-source provider has announced a software stack designed for transaction-intensive companies such as banks

It's not the number, it's the size.

Talkback The security bugs in Firefox tend to be (not always) theoretical ones that get fixed. The exploits in Internet Explorer tend to be real ones already out there and in use by websites. Without close...

Suse Linux 10.3 I Beleive In You

Blog Recently as I may have mentioned, I have been trying to put Suse Linux 10.3 through its paces and establish whether it is a viable option for my companies needs. I have so far managed to...

Ofcom to auction high-frequency spectrum

News Four wireless broadband-friendly spectrum bands will be auctioned off early next year, potentially helping businesses create high-speed, wireless bridges between buildings

I've just fainted in surprise

Talkback Sorry - did I read your headline right? Microsoft's product beats a rival in Microsoft's own safety study and this is trumpeted by a Microsoft executive? Apprently in a study in Stalin's Russia,...

Five Subtleties

Blog HA is not about brute forcing complexity into your daily lives, it's about technology augmenting your life in a subtle natural way. Here are five things of note I've implemented in Minerva. When...

Google enrols users in fight against malware

News The search giant is calling on users to fill in an online form reporting malicious sites that are not already flagged

IE trumps Firefox in Microsoft safety study

News A senior Microsoft executive has said IE is the safer bet after comparing how many vulnerabilities were found in the two browsers, but critics claim the study was flawed

Benefit discs threaten new data scare

News Reports claim that two discs, potentially full of benefits claimants' data, were held by an ex-contractor after leaving the Department for Work and Pensions offices a year ago

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