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Member Review Clean Interface, nice feature set and really easy to use. Also priced better than any of its competitors.
Gartner: Expect an enterprise iPhone
News Analyst firm suggests that, while the current version of the iPhone is not suitable for businesses, Apple might in future add enterprise devices or applications
Win a trip to San Francisco
Competition Know about security? Then start blogging for a chance to win a trip to San Francisco for RSA 2008 or a free pass to RSA Europe next month.
Singapore to start wireless-payment trials
News Two mobile service providers will launch the trials, which will be based on near-field communication embedded in mobile phones
Grid computing to tackle climate change
News The University of Capetown will use grid computing technologies from IBM to model climate change scenarios in Southern Africa
Hidden costs?
Talkback I often wonder about how realistic these saving claims are. Saving that much should thus result in a decrease in council tax, not the 5% that they are probably going to see, unless the savings are...
Camden council cashes in on IT overhaul
News The London borough expects its technology transformation programme will recover over £1m per year
Hungary abstains from OOXML vote
News The country has declined to vote on Microsoft's controversial format after IBM warned of 'irregularities' in the process; meanwhile France has said no
Is this the best Orange can do?
Talkback You can almost imagine how the meeting (well presuming they had one but maybe that is bestowing more forethought on this than it deserves) went for this decision at Orange. Amid some furious...
Microsoft over OOXML fiasco
Talkback Any person, business, or government will be able to use MS Office even if OOXML does not become a standard. It isn't going to hurt M$'s bottom line. It only means that there will be a choice...
HP Deskjet 460wbt
Review The HP Deskjet 460wbt printer is useful if you're constantly on the move and absolutely need to be able to print from wherever you are. The option of Wi-Fi printing gives it a slight edge over the...
Orange launches 'Open Office'
News The company says its home-worker service portfolio won't be confused with the open-source office-applications suite OpenOffice.org
BSI silent on OOXML vote result
News The British Standards Institution has refused to divulge either the membership of its technical committee or the outcome of its vote on OOXML
The joy of push email
Blog We've been writing about push email for long enough, and now we ZDNet hacks have got shiny new Windows Mobile smartphones (in my case, the HTC S620, all hooked up to our corporate Exchange server....
China to get in-flight mobile service by 2009
News Shenzhen Airlines will install OnAir's in-flight mobile-phone service across its fleet of aircraft, the latest in a string of such deals
RE:The end of the subsidised handset?
Blog Comment There is no such thing as a 'free' handset, you buy a handset on condition that you pay c£30 per month to the operator to 'pay' for the handset, oh and you get a few calls with that too. It is...
Infamous Russian ISP behind Bank of India hack
News The notorious Russian Business Network has been identified as the ISP responsible for a recent information-stealing financial attack
Outsourcing suppliers under pressure to go green
News US and European companies are increasingly including green criteria in their outsourcing vendor selection processes and contracts
China hosts almost half of all malware sites
News According to a Sophos report, China hosts 44.8 percent of the world's infected sites, with the US and Russia a distant second and third
who is lobbying????
Talkback 1. Microsoft voted YES on both the ISO and ANSI certification of ODF and never lobbied against the standard. 2. IBM has been lobbying fiercely against OOXML even before Microsoft came up with...
Shades of WGA to come from other vendors
Talkback Don't forget that there is also Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) as well that applies to the Office Pack and Visio etc. Most sites should already be aware that you are prohibited from downloading any...
German "Trojan Horse"
Talkback Does anyone know more details on the German government proposal to use "Trojan Horse" software to monitor through the hard drive potential terrorist suspects? This is surfacing as a rumour skinny...
