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Archive - 06 Feb 2009

Toshiba M100 Portege , the first true netbook?

Talkback A Russian review translated by google gives this a good review, saying suprisingly that HD video work extremely well. I currently love and use a Toshiba Portege M100 - it uses an centrino 1400MHz...

Bleak Year ahead for Nigerian Handset Market.

Blog According to Wall Street Journal, the global economic downturn and weakening demand, handset makers and vendors affiliated with cell phone components are probably headed toward a large shakeup in...

Samsung netbook ready for launch

Photo Intel's Atom chip has been ditched in favour of Via Nano in Samsung's second, bigger, more costly netbook

Chrome takes new tack for faster JavaScript

News Chrome programmers have replaced third-party code as part of Google's attempt to make its open-source browser even faster

IBM de-duplicates Tivoli

News Tivoli Storage Manager 6 has enhanced scalability, and can handle a billion objects

Intel delays next Itanium server chip again

News The new server chip, code-named Tukwila, has had its release date pushed back to around the middle of this year

Intel cuts prices of solid-state drives

News The manufacturer says the price cuts are the result of Intel's solid-state drive production now being fully operational

Microsoft's secret deals on open source

Leader Microsoft has been building a portfolio of open-source licence deals. It still prefers secrecy

Wozniak joins SSD start-up

News The Apple co-founder will join solid-state drive firm Fusion-io as chief scientist

Gmail sets up multiple inboxes

News Google has unveiled a new Gmail Labs feature that allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view

European ID card data is not encrypted

News The personally identifiable data stored on European electronic identity cards is not encrypted, according to an EU agency

Microsoft and Brother sign patent-sharing deal

News The printer company agrees to pay Microsoft for use of intellectual property, but most other details of the deal remain secret

Lords: Put a stop to 'pervasive' snooping

News A House of Lords committee calls for new powers to combat a culture of surveillance that has seen the UK become the most spied-upon country in the world

Microsoft to tweak Windows 7 settings

News Microsoft has said it will make changes to the way a security feature works in Windows 7

Microsoft smartphone rumours resurface

Blog We reckon Microsoft will have some interesting news to share at this year's Mobile World Congress, which will make a change. Steve Ballmer himself will be there, and that's always good...

Sleeping With The Enemy: Facebook surprises all by hosting OpenID summit

Blog These are crazy times in which we live and nothing seems crazier than Facebook welcoming Google, IBM, PayPal and Yahoo to discuss OpenID! When I read the article by Caroline McCarthy on CNET...

RE:Don't Forget: Business Tends To Focus On Applications

Blog Comment An XP installation is a minefield of unknowns. The lack of upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7 has a lot to do with the fact it is very difficult to see 'visually' whether the machine in...

This machine is not for the likes of us.

Talkback The comment to note is where it says "retailers have had more Linux-based netbooks returned to them by customers than their XP-based counterparts". The manufacturers see their market as people who...

Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 and CF-30 announced

Blog Panasonic is not the only maker of notebooks for rugged conditions, but it does produce its Toughbook range to a consistently high quality. The company also does a good line in 'semi-rugged'...

Is virtualisation starting to feel real?

Blog In the wake of some very 'real' encounters spent discussing virtualisation at the Parallels Summit 2009 this week, I still have a smorgasboard of opinions, analyst comments and the thoughts of...

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