Previous DayWindows Silent Service
Blog OK....I know many people are frustrated with windows,and microsoft. A lot of the reasons are well documented...but there has been a plus side working silently away over the years. The...
A sort of Apple Apology.
Blog "It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store.We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without...
Sybase TechWave draws Geoffrey Moore Inside the Tornado
Blog It’s 6.15 am and the sun is rising over the Mojave Desert. The battalion of hotel workers that will fuel us with NutriGrain bars and diet Cokes are already pounding the corridors of this monolithic...
RE:Dreaming of an iPhone Nano Christmas
Blog Comment Having just lowered the price of an iPhone and dealing with millions of new users I doubt you will see a smaller phone. The browsing capabilities of the iphone are its real outstanding feature not...
All our computers are belong to Microsoft
Blog Microsoft has apparently scored a small victory in the Philippines. Manila Bulletin Online is reporting that St. Paul College, Pasig, has ditched its Linux-based operating system in favour of...
Test your ISP's net neutrality!
Blog The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a tool, dubbed 'Switzerland' (net neutrality - geddit?), that's designed to help web users check if their ISPs are doing nasty things with...
Intel reveals Larrabee's cores and effects
News Intel's new Larrabee architecture is a graphic illustration of many-core design
Dialogue Box 4.5: The Axis of Consumerisation
Video Remember the Axis of Awesome? Dialogue Box reckons that, if a product is both cool and useful, and satisfies four simple criteria, you're likely to find it appearing at work, by stealth
Semiconductor sales defy energy price rises
News The first half of 2008 saw 5.4 percent year-on-year growth in global semiconductor sales, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association
Microsoft to tip off partners on security flaws
News The scheme will provide some security companies with details of Microsoft software vulnerabilities prior to the monthly 'Patch Tuesday'
Spammers using Google Sites to bypass filters
News Junk emailers are using Google Sites to create web pages that can help spam get around corporate filters, according to MessageLabs
RE:A Week Working With Linux
Blog Comment @AdamW and all others who commented about the Sierra Wireless AirCard... Thanks, very much, for reading and commenting, and for the help and advice. Sigh. Why do I keep making the same mistake?...
Micron unveils server-grade SSDs
News The company's P200 range offers solid-state drives of up to 128GB for the datacentre, while the notebook-oriented C200 range goes up to 256GB in size
Met Office buys IBM petaflop supercomputer
News The meteorological department is acquiring a £33m supercomputer that will operate at close to a petaflop within the next three years
Only if they finished what they started?
Talkback Maybe they might finish bulding the mast that's been half constructed for the last 3 years and then abandoned in our village?
New Facebook 'temporarily disabled'
Blog Been having a bugger of a time with the "new" Facebook this morning. After loading it up, none of the click-thru links are working. Now, that's in Firefox, so I tried it in IE, and the browser...
ADC datacentre exploits outdoor air for cooling
News The datacentre developer is building a facility that will use outside air to cool its racks of computing gear for 75 percent of the year
Lenovo joins the netbook crowd
Blog We've been wondering when Lenovo would toss its hat into the increasingly crowded netbook (or, as we prefer it, mini-notebook) ring. Now the Lenovo hat is there, in the shape of the IdeaPad S9...
Time Warner moves closer to AOL split
News The division of AOL's dial-up internet-access and advertising businesses may speed their acquisition by suitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft
Orange ramps up 3G network in north
News The operator is moving to a new network infrastructure in the north-east of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, boosting its 3G services
Motorola taps Qualcomm exec to head handset unit
News After 14 years at Qualcomm, Sanjay Jha has been appointed co-CEO of Motorola and head of the troubled mobile-device business
Renewed Adventures with Vista
Blog Microsoft says "Get the facts. Please give Vista another try". I have said before, and I genuinely mean it, I would like for Vista to work properly. It has been a few months since I last gave up...
China's homegrown 3G may overcome bumpy start
News Analysts say TD-SCDMA's head start over its competitors may mean it takes off in China despite early problems with deployment
RE:Skype Pursuing "Unarticulated Needs"
Blog Comment I do agree that actions speak more loudly than words, and the actions of the large, growing community of people who use Skype every day to connect with their friends, family, and business...
Quantum codes, deep space and utter geek delight
Blog Heard of Viterbi? There are two right answers: Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm and the inventor of Viterbi decoding, and the coding itself. He was part of a team whose mythology...
