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Blog Comment Hi Adrian....this is not an area that I have much knowledge in, but do you think that partial virtualisation may be a possibilitiy? By this, question, I am hoping that instead of having to...
Total Failure
Talkback Not just loss of credibility. As for the idea of them taking over the successful standard - ODF - one immediately thinks of foxes and hen-houses.
Symantec announces product upgrades
News The company has announced Brightmail Gateway 8.0 for email, Data Loss Prevention 9.0, plus Enterprise Vault 8.0 for storage security
Microsoft hints at future SQL Server features
News Currently bearing the code-name 'Kilimanjaro', the next version of SQL Server will feature enhanced business-intelligence capabilities, Microsoft has said
AMD splits off its chip-manufacturing business
News The company says it will focus its investment on plants in New York and Germany, as it gets backing from the United Arab Emirates
So ODF actually SHOULD be rubber stamped?
Talkback That's a good point, Luc, that I will be taking up with people. PAS specifications are created and completed outside, and can be rubber stamped by ISO, but Fast Track specifications expect ISO to...
Dutch researchers release Oyster-hack details
News Vulnerability details for the Oyster smartcard have been published by Dutch and German researchers, but Transport for London has no plans to migrate to a different chipset
Free tool automates attacks on Gmail, Facebook
News A new open-source tool is intended to demonstrate the security weaknesses in online applications and banking websites
Velocity 103
Review The Velocity 103 offers a lot of features, but this Windows Mobile smartphone will have a tough time competing because of its unintuitive interface and performance issues.
Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
News Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry
Mono update promises to pull in .NET 2.0
News The new version of Mono includes support for .NET 2.0 and C# 3.0, as well as a debugger and an analytical tool for .NET-to-Linux application migrations
IT wages fall as credit crunch bites
News Contractor rates for staff in the financial services sector have slumped to a five-year low, according to recent research
Reducing the need for Customer Support
Talkback Believe it or not, we’re not trying to reduce the need for customer support because we secretly want to make life miserable for our customers :) As Scott suggests, we’re aiming to make our users...
ISO or Microsoft ?
Talkback "Delegates from 15 national standards bodies unanimously agreed to send the message to Oasis, because they are unhappy with its work maintaining ODF, said Alex Brown, convenor of WG1, a working...
Adobe & other software pricing policy
Talkback I think Adobe is talking nonsense re the re-selling as do many other companies. Much software can be downloaded - no resellers needed - and yet it is still more expensive in the U.K. Why? My...
ISO's SC34: the Large Standard Collider
Blog Like that other Swiss science project, standards maker ISO has accelerated ODF and OOXML on two separate paths, and now it is colliding them, in a small space: the SC34 committee. What unknown...
eBay to lay off 10pc of its workforce
News The online auction giant has also announced plans to acquire online payments business Bill Me Later, and warned Q3 results will come in at the low end of expectations
October Yahoo-AOL deal possible, claims report
News A deal between the two internet pioneers could close in October, TechCrunch reported on Monday, citing sources close to negotiations
'Geode' plug-in brings geographic edge to Firefox
News The plug-in will help the Firefox web browser better comprehend and use geographic information
New MacBooks Next week
Blog Apple always release products on a tuesday (anyone one know why?) and next week all fingers point to a new MacBook which like the previous iMacs drop the plastic enclosure and come with a new...
Microsoft to offer Surface developer tools
News The software giant has promised that developers who attend this month's Professional Developer Conference will get the tools needed to write apps for the company's tabletop PC
Companies brace Wall Street for Q4 results
News Amid the troubled economic climate, companies such as SAP and Netflix are revising investors' expectations for the current quarter before they even report third-quarter results
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The move has been prompted by concerns ODF was not being properly maintained by its creator Oasis, says an ISO committee member, rejecting claims of a pro-Microsoft takeover
RE:Anti-virus reviews make things worse (or Symantec: just say...
Blog Comment I absolutely agree every word Adrian Mars wrote. I have had clients who paid to renew Norton AV products, only to find the renewal download location failed, and speaking to a human about it was...
