Previous DayRE:Mobile Manufacturers - Obsessed by cool?
Blog Comment I suppose there's not much money to be made in tough, ragged phones; Nokia used to have a such a range (not sure whether they still do) and they often sold for around £60 - £80 offline, compare...
Conserving energy in an automated home - Part 3
Blog Thus far I’ve got the hard-drive standby mode sorted on the main fileserver in the house (boron) and now I’m starting to look at the other ways of reducing power. This will help reduce our...
Conserving energy in an automated home - Part 2
Blog So far I’ve not touched on what home automation can do. As most home automators will be aware, there are a number of products that allow remote control of lights and sockets within a house. Combine...
Conserving energy in an automated home - Part 1
Blog In the same way that the saying “you’ve got to spend money to make money” works, sometimes it’s also necessary to spend energy to save energy. An automated home may have more gadgetry than normal...
Why can Skype not just be forthcoming?
Talkback Thanks for a good, timely article making some important points. It really escapes me why Skype is not able to simply be open, honest and forthcoming with their customers. They built an excellent...
RE:Mobile Manufacturers - Obsessed by cool?
Blog Comment Phone manufacturers have gone through this type of phone and have come out the other side. Many years ago in the early days of GSM. selected people at my workplace were given Motorola Flip Phones...
Skype fixes critical security flaw
News The VoIP company has faced criticism for its handling of a major security hole, while also coming under fire for allegedly ignoring users' bug reports
IBM - an apology (and some really neat physics!)
Blog OK, so I cocked that one up. Apologies to just about everyone - researchers, PRs, other hacks, and especially you, distant reader - for missing the point. However, there are benefits. I now have...
HP CM8060
Review State-of-the-art enterprise-class inkjet technology makes HP's CM8060 Colour MFP more than a match for conventional laser-based alternatives.
EPEAT greener IT product ratings
Talkback For those looking to comply with the Socitm recommendations in short order, the EPEAT greener computer purchasing standard offers a highly useful tool for integrating environmental performance...
ideally ...
Talkback It's a good idea to check out those websites as sw3286 stated, they can allow you to see what's on offer and other peoples views on it. But do take them all with a pinch of salt some peoples view...
Always been terrible
Talkback You make it sound like BT has given good service in the past when in my experience the truth is far from it. We were the first people to get ADSL when it came out... that was a total farce, as was...
Novell hits at Red Hat's real-time rant
Blog Red Hat complained this week that Novell hadn't contributed enough to real time Linux, and was launching code developed by Red Hat that should still be in beta - Novell has responded. "Novell...
Bugs ahoy!
Talkback Good interview and nice to get a view straight from the horses mouth about the other side of the fence .... erm, I'll quit with the sayings now. When people say that one application is plainly more...
Agreed! but who?
Talkback Definitely agree that we should all look elsewhere. Orange my current provider is very poor, download speeds are not great (can't watch YouTube content) and upload speeds are frankly pathetic (256...
Does anyone have a sheepdog?
Talkback Great, finally a list that 'the powers that be' should pay attention to, however... we should not forget that these 'powers that be' are overwhelmingly represented by party political sheep who's...
Businesses warned against skipping Vista
News Companies planning on waiting for Vista's successor may face software support issues and a rushed migration, Gartner has warned
It's about time people stopped being sheep and signing up wi...
Talkback It's about time people stopped being sheep and signing up with the big players just because they have heard of them and/or advertise on the telly etc. and started using google properly to find...
RE:Wireless standards: the early years
Blog Comment Thanks for filling in the gaps. I knew of the Mississippi divide between K and W, but not the A and N stories. There's also quite a lot of resistance from the old school radio amateurs, with...
When more bugs can mean tighter security
Q&A Mozilla Europe's president Tristan Nitot explains why having fewer disclosed vulnerabilities doesn't mean Internet Explorer is safer than the open-source web browser
A few more pictures
Blog Until the video clip appears, I thought I'd post a couple more images to whet your proverbial appetites... The weather is downloaded, parsed, and presented here. It is also spoken by the...
Mobile Manufacturers - Obsessed by cool?
Blog Love it or hate it - Apple have certainly upped the ante in the race to be cool amongst mobile phones. Copycat (or better!) products from LG, HTC, Samsung and others seem to illustrate that the...
RE:Helpfull Tools That ar Handy to Have
Blog Comment Some suggestions of my own as possible additions; Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de PDF Creator from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ AVG anti-virus from http://free.grisoft.com/ Belarc...
Bt should pay more attention to its existing customers
Talkback Maybe BT would fare better if they tried to keep their existing customers rather than just offer cheap deals to new ones. Having been wh BT Internet since t stared its dialup servce, changing to...
RE:MumCam
Blog Comment Hi, glad you like the idea I hope it works for you, I will help all I can. I had relatives in Australia (my home is in the UK) helping to keep an eye on mum. The camera does not have the ability to...
Homebrew: A green spin on the tumble dryer
Video For his entry into ZDNet.co.uk's homemade-tech competition, Gren Mercer has invented a cheap radio sensor device that should improve the efficiency of tumble dryers
Terapad Pro
Review Hosted CMS and blog solutions litter the market, yet none offer Terapad's combination of simplicity and functionality.
Win a Motorola Razr2 V8
Competition Motorola's Razr 2 V8 is handy for out-of-office professionals juggling an armful of devices. We've got five up for grabs in Day 2 of our Christmas competition.
interesting
Talkback I meant to post this the other day but got distracted by shiny things.. Anyway, I'm very interested by this little box as a gadget for getting mobile tasks performed. Recently I have been looking...
E-learning spurned by UK staff
News Staff prefer the human touch and find PC-based learning material insufficiently engaging, according to a CMI survey
BT comes last for broadband satisfaction
News Tiscali has come top in a customer-satisfaction survey of the eight major UK broadband providers, while BT has come bottom
RE:Wireless standards: the early years
Blog Comment A and N were Army and Navy. Military wireless stations were the first to use organized callsigns to ID stations. The A and N radio callsign's were first used to ID the plane and would be painted...
RE:Home Brew - Native Forth MICRO
Blog Comment Congratulations! I played with Forth on Z80 and believe it or not, there was a Forth implementation for the Commodore C64! It was amazing what you could make either chip or system do with no more...
RE:IBM's supercomputer chip breakthrough more PR than IT
Blog Comment I'll bet that IBM is looking for a new advertising agency OR their current contract is about to come up for renewal/bid. I'll also bet that the "pointy-haired boss" (Dilbert's nemesis) that is...
Apply for a visa via Secondlife?
Blog The replublic of Estonia has opened a new embassy, not in a specific country, but in the virtual world that is SecondLife. SecondLife might not be as hot as Facebook or even MySpace but it has...
