Previous DayRE:xG update - money, mystery and more
Blog Comment Rupert, you need to stop browbeating xG because their first potential dealer could not come up with the cash to fund their rollout. I love the "real media" line xG gave you.
xG update - money, mystery and more
Blog Today was going to be my lunch appointment with xG, but we've had to cancel due to creative differences - the company wanted it off the record, I wanted to be able to write about what it told me,...
RE:Anti-virus reviews make things worse (or Symantec: just say...
Blog Comment You raise another important point in your post about product reviews. Pretty much the whole security industry questions how reviews are conducted by magazines and whether they really examine the...
IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon
News The company will challenge internet-centric 'cloud' pioneers by promoting a mix of cloud-based and on-premises services
Accenture UK job cuts to hit IT workers
News Up to 400 jobs are to be cut in the consulting group's UK operations, with the focus of the redundancies being on systems integration and technology
Getting the upside on the downturn
Leader Don't smart over hard times — get smart and beat them
Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher
Photo The computer centre at Cern in Geneva will process some of the data generated by the LHC experiment, and will act as the point of transfer for the grid-computing project that will handle the rest
Lenovo ThinkPad SL500
Review The ThinkPad SL500 is attractively priced, solidly built and a good performer. We're particularly impressed with the high-resolution 15.4in. screen. However, there are one or two design quirks, the...
RE:Anti-virus reviews make things worse (or Symantec: just say...
Blog Comment I am Product Marketing Director for Symantec’s Norton range and would like to offer my perspective on some of the points you raise in your post. I am not sure which Norton products you and your...
Lords to debate gov't progress on internet security
News While the government has taken steps to establish an e-crime unit, the Lords will debate whether it has done enough to encourage software developer liability for insecure code
Business Software Alliance tackles online scams
News In the first half of this year, the BSA trade group served 48,000 peer-to-peer-related takedown warnings and asked sites to shut down 18,000 auctions
Surreal...
Talkback What kind of world is this, when a company says that their new product is "selling great", "the most successful in our history", and at the same time they are getting so much pressure from their...
T-Mobile and 3 build up mobile-broadband resources
News The mobile operators, which are in the process of combining their networks of base stations, will get high-speed broadband backhaul from BT for the next five years
Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
News The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack
Data Quality - Upstream or Downstream?
Blog I keep wondering how come data quality check still exists as a procedure performed once in a while, rather than as a part of the front-end process? How come most companies start worrying about the...
RE:Anti-virus reviews make things worse (or Symantec: just say...
Blog Comment I can echo this story 200 times. It is 100% true. We do the same thing - we uninstall Norton AntiVirus or Internet security and most times it solves the problem. What's embarrassing, however, is...
Yahoo web tool speeds up image shrinking
News Smush It helps web programmers automate the process of trimming image size without sacrificing visual quality
RE:Anti-virus reviews make things worse (or Symantec: just say...
Blog Comment With macs it was the always the first thing to turn off when you had any problems too. Not sure if that even make a aversion for OS X ? Utz
Skype denies knowledge of China security issues
News The company's president has said it was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China
Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday
Ask.com goes back to its roots
News The search engine's latest update now displays answers to questions directly on its results pages
Antitrust scrutiny holds up Yahoo-Google deal
News The search-ad deal was set to go into effect shortly, but the companies have postponed it to give antitrust investigators more time
Microsoft throws another lifeline to Windows XP
News The software giant has again extendeed the timeframe in which PC makers can sell Vista machines that come with its older operating system in the box
Things developers need to know before calling Tech Support
Blog I’ve spent part of this weekend working on a tutorial with two chaps out in Denver Colorado that examines the mechanics of how they work with developers to help fix application errors. What makes...
RE:ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?
Blog Comment This can only be described as bizarre. But beware, it seems to me that it is the most bizarre things which actually do come to pass, especially when you are talking about bloated, opaque,...
I’m turning Taiwanese (I really think so)
Blog Having blogged recently on multilingual application development I was intrigued to find that my first experiences in the brave new world of the netbook are tinged with more than just a little...
The quest for a Mexican netbook
Blog I feel bereft, without a netbook to be called my own, and spending the next month travelling around all of Mexico. My last Acer Aspire One broke while I hamfistedly tried to upgrade its RAM, so I...
