Previous DayIntel targets businesses with Web 2.0 bundle
News Blogging, RSS, search and wiki capabilities will be integrated into a single package backed by Intel
Microsoft releases .Net 3.0 ahead of Vista
News Builder: The tools and frameworks required to write applications for the latest, as yet unreleased, incarnation of Windows are now available
Best quote of the conference so far
Blog [Live from VMWorld, Los Angeles] "We can download servers as easily as we can music from iTunes" (Homeland Internet, on a client video during the Virtual Appliances panel)
Dell announces first quad-core servers
News Servers based on Intel's quad-core Xeon chip will be available from early 2007
More power from the people...
Blog [Live from VMWorld in Los Angeles] VMWare working on power management system on top of VI that spots spare capacity and shuts down or clams down servers to save power. Also, says VMWare, letting...
Energy company promises millions to customers for virtualization
Blog [Live from VMWorld, Los Angeles] Green says: "Something I thouught I'd never do at VM World, bring on Roland Risser, the director of Energy Conservation at Pacific Gas and Electric" He's...
VMWorld Keynote
Blog Dr Steve Herrod - VP Tech Dev - takes the stage. We are not normal attendees, he says. We like to talk details. And that's the plan this year. Two hundred breakout sessions. A skyrocketing...
Whiteboard: Signs of a demotivated workforce
Video Dr EL Kersten of Despair, Inc identifies seven signs of a demotivated workforce and explains the benefits of each
Slower I think
Talkback 12% in the next 2 years as apposed to 5.5% on XP. The first year will be 1 to 2% then after the Vista Service Pack 1 uptake will increase if Vista can prove it's safe enough and stable. I'd be...
Phishing attacks surge
News Latest figures show a huge increase in the number of phishing incidents, as more money is stolen through online fraud
Would you like one for your child ????
Talkback OK. The concept is fantastic. However, in a sense this is equivalent to teaching kids how to drive on a cardboard car in bicycle wheels. Would you really like to have one for your child, in London,...
Not yet
Talkback Let's see - I'm waiting til I hear the horror stories when people actually start using Vista
UK businesses warming to Vista
News Businesses are ready to embrace the next Microsoft platform, says the NCC, while desktop Linux isn't making much impact
Press Release speak, pt. 1
Blog This is the kind of thing journalists get sent on a daily basis. This is meant to make us write nice things about companies. From a press release from BridgeHead Software: "UK companies are...
Why you should care about biometrics
FAQ From UK ID cards to new passport technology, biometrics is becoming harder to ignore and should be included in every IT department's security strategy
What am I doing drinking in LA at 6 AM?
Blog It's OK - it's coffee, drunk out of a hotel bathroom glass (what cruel, sadistic hotel management puts a coffee maker in your room and then forgets the cups?). They don't break, providing you put a...
Lookalike #001
Blog Perusing ZDNet's most excellent News section today, I couldn't help noticing the similarity between F-Secure's CEO Risto Siilasmaa and Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos. Are the Finnish...
Microsoft offers tools for Vista, Office and web
News Developers will get free add-ons to create programs for Vista and Office 2007 as well as Ajax-style web applications
Sony Ericsson takes control of smartphone interface
News The Swedish handset maker has bought the Symbian user interface company UIQ that its parent company Ericsson set up in 1998
Statistical spin of the day
Blog So we get a press release today from the Met, entitled: "Mobile phone crime in Capital falls significantly - Latest from New Scotland Yard". Interesting stuff, right? Perhaps an indicator of some...
Press release of the day
Blog So what shall I do with this blog thingy today? I know, pour scorn on the day's crappiest press release, which comes courtesy of Image Analyser Ltd, a company which, um, er... something to do with...
esxMigrator
Review Easy to use and efficient with time, esxMigrator is an excellent tool that will help busy server administrators upgrading from VMware’s ESX 2.x to VI3 server virtualisation.
Video: Microsoft, Novell, open source
Video Novell CTO Jeff Jaffe explains why the Novell-Microsoft deal is good for open source
Heathrow Express gets on-board Wi-Fi
News T-Mobile will provide the hot spots for a service similar to the one that runs on the Brighton Express
Video: Microsoft embraces Linux
Video CEO Steve Ballmer outlines Microsoft's recent deal with Novell
IBM surveillance could monitor borders
News System analyses video for certain characteristics, and could potentially prove useful in a wide range of situations
Adobe to hand JavaScript code to Mozilla
News Firefox gets the scripting engine that powers Adobe's Flash Player, which should mean better performance
Attackers target zero-day Windows flaw
News Microsoft admits that an 'extremely serious' vulnerability is already being exploited
Palm accused of patent infringement
News Fresh from its epic legal battle against RIM, NTP is now claiming Palm's smartphones and PDAs infringe its patents
Microsoft Office 2007 RTM
Preview Microsoft is set to ship Office 2007 to larger businesses within the next month and to the general public early next year. Here's a summary of the radical changes just around the corner.
Such a beautiful horizon
Blog I'm in Barcelona for Microsoft's TechEd Developers 2006, where they're going to tell us how wonderful Visual Studio, SQL Server and the .NET framework are. Much the same as they did last year,...
