Previous DayRE:That $20 (or $10, or $30) laptop
Blog Comment I read it as £7. I suspect that it is concievable if Sakshat refers to a 'laptop' in the same way that in some parts of india a 'car' is created utilising scrap. Look at it this way. The western...
RE:Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog Comment Perhaps I am poorly informed, or insufficiently experienced, but I would say that running a virtual machine is something that could, or even should, be far beyond the scope of what the average...
Computers bare of OS
Talkback This really does raise the fraught question as to whether we should, in general, be able to buy computers with no operating system. Of course, it does suit Micro$oft to have their operating system...
EU lacks common ID privacy specs, says agency
News Europe lacks a common ID card privacy strategy, which is hindering interoperability and citizen acceptance, according to Enisa
SAP unveils Business Suite 7
News The global software giant SAP has announced the release of Business Suite 7 overnight, including updates to all the business applications available with the suite
Reding: Help tech firms not help repressive regimes
Blog Viviane Reding, the European commissioner on techie stuff, has given a very interesting speech to a plenary session of the European Parliament, in which she discussed how best to get European...
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T1010
Review The LifeBook T1010 is a distinctive-looking, if somewhat bulky, 13.3in. Tablet PC with decent specs and reasonable performance. If you're picky about keyboards, you should love this notebook.
Dell gives UK companies chance to win £25,000
Blog Dell has announced the prize that will be open for UK companies to battle for in the Small Business Excellence Award 2009. The winning UK entrant is in line for a £25,000 and a chance to meet...
Lenovo reports loss, CEO steps down
News William Amelio has resigned at the end of his three-year contract as the company reports a loss of nearly $97m for the quarter
VMware opens client virtualisation
Blog EMC's virtualisation company, VMware has launched an open source virtual desktop client, VMware View Open Client. It is intended for use by EMC/VMware partner companies who want to give their...
Microsoft adds 'Fix it' to online help docs
News Instead of offering a long list of steps on its help forums to fix a technical issue, Microsoft has started adding a single button
RE:Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications
Blog Comment I service a small office. The secretary required (needed) a new computer a while ago and asked for Vista. It worked fine except for her higher end Xerox scanner which had to be replaced, with an...
RE:Interim Digital Britain report: First impressions
Blog Comment "But the report will take a while to digest... again, more later..." There is a lot to take in from the report, isn't there? And a lot of questions raised in it about where the thinking may lead to...
Steorn is at it again!
Blog My personal energy levels received a free boost today with the delightful discovery that those Irish perpetual motion fiends at Steorn have risen from their Dublin slumbers. With commendable...
Juniper announces energy-efficient core router
News The TX Matrix Plus promises to cut the cost of network routing and increase efficiency
HP ditches Linux option for UK netbooks
News The UK and some other European countries will not be able to get any new HP netbook with Linux after the manufacturer decided to sell only Windows versions here
Cisco reports 27 percent profit drop
News The bellwether networking firm says things will get worse before they get better, but recovery may be sooner than expected
Cisco warns of flaws in wireless LAN controllers
News The flaws could be used to launch denial-of-service attacks or to give attackers admin privileges, the networking company says
Intel research: fast radios, flashy chips, low power
Blog Intel is concentrating on integration rather than acceleration, according to the fifteen papers it will be presenting at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference next week in San...
Police can't read data on UK's ID cards
News The first UK identity cards have already been issued, but no police stations, border-entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip
What to do if your supercomputing supplier fails
Comment High-performance computing providers often live on the edge — technologically and financially. But if your supplier fails, it need not be a disaster, according to Andrew Jones
Google Health gets boost from IBM software
News IBM has developed software that Google Health, and eventually other personal health-record services, will be able to use so medical devices automatically sync up
40pc of UK tech firms plan to cut IT staff
News A survey finds that close to half of HR directors at technology and media companies are planning to cut IT staff in the coming few months
Windows 7 security faces growing criticism
News Some warn that efforts to tone down annoying warnings by the operating system could be opening the door to attacks, yet Microsoft has a different perspective
RE:Infection began with a windscreen flyer
Blog Comment its a novel approach, i'll give them that... and parking violation notices are the one thing almost guaranteed to have people actually checking any publicised website. i never notice the damned...
RE:Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Out of his listing, he left out Home Basic. No the bozos still haven't figured out that it was confusing the first time and its going to be as confusing this time. What really makes things super...
