Previous DayRE:Leaving Windows behind
Blog Comment Jake, you have my utmost sympathy. Having to go through that kind of garbage quite some time ago was one of the things that gave me the initial (huge) push away from MS Office. As you can tell...
Patching Insight
Talkback This month will be especially disruptive for desktop/laptop management teams because of an Internet Explorer patch that requires a restart for anyone using Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 or 8...
Crypto project to lock down net security
News VeriSign and Icann have joined with two US government agencies to encrypt one of the fundamental internet protocols
Leaving Windows behind
Blog I have spent a happy morning installing Windows XP on the computers at the Youth Centre. Windows XP is really showing its age, in terms of speed of installation and hardware support. The...
Cisco enters rack-mount server market
News The company plans to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its 'unified computing' push
Virtualisation's 10 commandments of destruction
Analysis Like nuclear technology, virtualisation is being sold as safe yet powerful. But beware — do not ignore its disruptive potential
Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms
News In a large-scale study at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University, physicists and IBM will churn gigabytes a second to learn the sun's dangerous secrets
Wind River gives Intel a shot in the software arm
Analysis Adding a serious software portfolio dramatically changes Intel's approach to embedded computing
Update OpenStreetMap — on paper
Blog This is an interesting idea: Print out a map from OpenStreetMap of an area you know well, or visit often, annotate the paper copy, then upload the scan so the OSM data can be updated, using the...
Ten tips for fine-tuning Firefox
Comment You can customise the behaviour of the Firefox browser with a few simple hacks, says Jack Wallen
RE:Microsoft at JavaOne 2009: “We come in peace”
Blog Comment There's no reason for Microsoft to not try to be interoperable on the server nowadays - Microsoft knows that it cannot control the server market like it thought it might, way back in 1998. The...
Carphone Warehouse to split in two
News Best Buy Europe and TalkTalk are to become separate listed companies by July next year, Carphone Warehouse has announced
Interesting angle
Talkback This is an interesting angle. The Russians are telling Microsoft that the software vendor doesn't have the right to sunset a product? As far as I know, Windows XP was due for termination, as a...
Hacked ATMs let criminals steal cash, PINs
News Hidden code on Windows XP-based ATMs has given criminals two years to use special cards to steal account data and money from the cash-dispensing machines
Reports: Alan Sugar to get gov't enterprise post
Blog Sir Alan Sugar is to be given a role in government as 'enterprise czar', according to reports. Details are sketchy at present, but the role appears to be a new one. The Amstrad tycoon will also...
Winning the war won't secure peace for open source
Comment Opposition to free software may have evaporated, but that does not make behavioural change inevitable, says Mark Taylor
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog As this is my first week of unemployment, I decided to spend some time assembling a low cost desktop system for simple tasks like email, web browsing and light office work. Sounds like a desktop...
HTC Touch Pro 2
Review HTC's best smartphone yet features a tilting screen, a good QWERTY keyboard and a responsive touch interface. The high-resolution screen is also superb. Our only real concern is battery life.
Who is really moving to the cloud?
Video A panel of experts offer their take on what types of organisation are taking up cloud-computing services
Microsoft readies 10 security updates
News The software maker will issue six critical security updates and four others for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Word and Excel as part of next week's Patch Tuesday
Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?
Analysis EU rules covering ISP transaction records raise privacy, as well as financial, issues, reports Manek Dubash
Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux
News Google has started taking Chrome beyond Windows with new versions for Mac OS X and Linux, but the company warns they are works in progress
Microsoft tightens up Bing search settings
News Following criticism of Bing's video-preview feature, which allowed viewing of adult content in the browser, Microsoft has come up with 'a short-term workaround'
Report: Steve Jobs on track for June return
News Apple's chief executive is on schedule to return this month from six months of medical leave, amid speculation he may be planning to announce a new iPhone
