Previous DayThe battle for digital mapping starts
Blog Tele Atlas is not a particularly large company working in a somewhat specialist field, but its upcoming sale has prompted a bidding war. A leader in the in-car navigation field, TomTom, has come in...
Web 2.0 at work
Video Matt Greeley, founder and chief executive of Brightidea.com, examines the pain points of implementing Web 2.0 tools at work, and offers a strategy for a successful adoption
Symantec to acquire data-security company
News The security giant is to purchase Vontu, which aims to help businesses from losing their data to outsiders, for £168m
Recession budget for IT
Blog So Gartner is urging businesses to create a secondary, smaller, 'recession' budget for their IT departments in case the economy falters. I can't see too many IT departments accepting the...
Gartner: Create a recession budget for IT
News The analyst firm has urged businesses to create a secondary, smaller budget for IT departments in light of concerns over the economy
Ten tips for videoconferencing success
Feature Videoconferencing can cut costs and time spent travelling, but preparation and planning are key to a professional and productive experience
Google's non-paranoid Android
Leader For an announcement with no hardware, no software and no business model, Google's Android makes a great deal of sense
HP Compaq 8710p
Review If a large desktop replacement notebook is what you're after, the HP Compaq 8710p has an excellent 17in. display, a powerful discrete graphics module, plenty of connectivity and a spacious keyboard.
Microsoft unveils free enterprise search
News The company is targeting the lower end of the enterprise search market with Search Server 2008, a free version of which will also be available
How important is open source to the Google Android?
Blog Google's open handset alliance is based on open source, but is that a game-changing thing in the mobile market? Here on ZDNet, there's a thread about how Android kicks open the mobile open...
Learn from project-management blunders
Feature The collected mishaps of numerous IT project managers provide valuable lessons in how to keep big projects from spiralling out of control
RE:Reading by the light of the fire: Google versus the historia...
Blog Comment Also this weekend, the Guardian launched its digital archive (http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalarchive), which seems like an admirable attempt to give searching and context for the whole history of...
HTC to make first Android handset
News Best known for enterprise-focused Windows Mobile handsets, HTC's phone using Google's Linux-based platform will extend its consumer portfolio
Lost Standard Life CD was unencrypted
News A CD containing the personal details of 15,000 Standard Life customers lost by a courier company was not encrypted, according to customs officials
Robot meets robot in 'Darpa city' race
Photo The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency raised the green flag on Saturday on 11 driverless cars to manoeuvre through a 60-mile course in Oro Grande, California
Clinton pats Microsoft's back
Photo Former US president Bill Clinton has visited the software giant's headquarters to thank it for the $72m raised this year in charitable donations
Top tips for getting projects back on budget
Feature When the realisation dawns that a project is going over budget, there are a number of strategies that can get it back on track
Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors
Blog It is in the nature of physics that some of the weirdest things live in the plainest view. When you were a kid on your summer holidays, a day at the beach meant a dip in the sea and sandcastles on...
BEA offers Icahn access to financial documents
News The company hopes Carl Icahn, its largest shareholder, will gain a better sense of the company's value after reviewing the confidential information
What the future holds for Google's Android
Analysis The search company's new mobile software platform could revolutionise the mobile-phone market, but consumers shouldn't hold their breath for cool new products
More on the Mandriva vs Microsoft in Nigeria issue
Blog Our colleagues in the new world at ZDNet US have managed to bag an interview with Mandriva chief executive Francois Bancilhon to talk about the Linux distro being gazumped by Microsoft in Nigeria....
RE:Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment Good news, but there is very few details about the platform itself. I see 3 options for Android on the table: Option 1) a Linux kernel, with a native open source JVM. This is the Blackberry...
RE:Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment Using linux as the operating system means only the lowest level commodity software is addressed. There are already many mobile linux kernels available for developers. So far, there hasn't been...
