Previous DayGartner: If there's one thing you should do
Blog The analysts at Gartner gathered together some of the IT industry’s finest brains for a keynote on Tuesday at the Gartner Symposium and IT Expo in Las Vegas to look into some of the future...
Homeland Security gives cyber 'early warning system' details
Blog The US is to develop an 'early warning system' to warn of cyber attacks, US secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said on Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference given after a keynote...
RE:Red Hat 'disappointed but not surprised' by OOXML result
Blog Comment First of all, I said ISO guy who is responsible for editing ODF, not ODF guy. BUT, you could call him an ODF guy because Sun is paying him to be the editor and just renewed his contract:...
Not cheap but its Linux!
Talkback I guess that HP is being careful not to introduce a product that might compete and undecut its mainstram products. Still the HP name will convnice some people to part with their cash despite the...
Light and dark with Luxim and Ceravision: Round two!
Blog Our colleagues at the recently launched Smart Planet have picked up an interesting story about energy efficient lighting technology. Smart Planet is a mainly consumer focused site with helpful...
Open-source global IT health programme launched
News An open-source organisation has launched a global programme to develop interoperable platforms for electronic healthcare
Not much of a competitor
Talkback the whole appeal of these mini PCs is price, they were supposed to appeal to budget users. HP's offering, if you include VAT, works out £350, what's the appeal when you can get a fully featured...
Managing Undocumented Code
Talkback This article is great for underscoring the message that we've been sharing with our clients for the past four years - undocumented code, whether open source or proprietary, needs to be managed in...
HP unveils aluminium-clad Eee rival
Photo The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is being promoted as ideal for schools, although its pricing and features are targeting the same market as Asus's iconic Eee PC
Tech for all ages?
Blog With new budget/low power laptops targeting education sector and a younger and younger audience will tech gadgets soon replace the rattle and skipping rope for our next generation of children? ...
It'll never work, you know
Blog Here's a Firefox error message I haven't had before. Is it me, or does this sound rather world-weary?
BT chief steps down
News Ben Verwaayen will leave the company at the end of May, and is being replaced by BT's head of retail, Ian Livingston
Gartner: Analysts always get it right
Blog The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo for Spring 2008 kicked off on Monday. Held in the home of US trade shows, Las Vegas, around 2,000 delegates sat down on Monday to four days of analysis and future...
HP's Mini-Note is official
Blog HP's much-rumoured 2133 Mini-Note PC is now official in the UK. This attempt to exploit the market tapped so successfully by the ASUS Eee will cost from £299 (ex. VAT) for a Linux-based...
3 to push VoIP and instant messaging
News The UK's smallest operator intends to shift its focus away from content and towards the kinds of services discouraged by its rivals
Zoho Show 2.0
Review Zoho Show 2.0 is great as far as it goes, but don't rely on it exclusively: you'll need an internet-connected PC to use it, and the feature set is still relatively limited.
The top 3 tricks up a CIO’s sleeve
Blog When your company’s CIO strolls into the board room, does he or she quake at the thought of taunting rebukes from the ‘suits’ who just won’t understand the plight of the IT department? Or will our...
3.5G Devices - Positive and Negative
Talkback The key to the success of this technology is, of course, going to be the cost - especially for "roaming" access. As it stands now, if you get a good plan from your carrier, the cost on your home...
Google invites developers to its Bigtable
News The search giant is offering web developers access to the same database building blocks that are used by Google
Targetted Technology?
Talkback How does the technology work? If it identifies activity against ISP account, ISP connection, and or connection's MAC code and this is a router linked connection (as many are) does that mean the...
3.5G devices see huge annual growth
News Research claims 3.5G is achieving better growth rates than other cellular tech, with a 150 percent annual increase in the number of devices on the market
Epson celebrates 40th…no 66th…no 33rd birthday
Blog Epson has launched a competition to celebrate its 40th Birthday with the lucky winner due a holiday of a lifetime worth about £4000. (Does £4000 really buy you truly momentous trip these days –...
Super Techies: Dan Bricklin
Video The software inventor discusses how he dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc; developing handwriting applications for the tablet PC; and his current role as the inventor of wikiCalc
Dialogue Box 3.5: Return of the Axis of Awesome
Video Rupert and Charles debate the coolness and usefulness of a range of mobile technology, including a military-grade mini-notebook and a pocket Etch-A-Sketch
Opera Browser "Speed Dial"
Blog I have recently started using "Speed Dial" in the Opera web browser a lot more. If you aren't familiar with it, what they do is give you nine mini-browser windows within the main Opera window,...
RE:‘Spring Clean’ Your Inbox
Blog Comment You're right Chris, it's very hard to manage employees' e-mails in terms of what they need and what they don't. Again, I think a large part of it comes down to educating the workforce to implement...
Gartner: IT budgets flat despite economic jitters
News The latest survey by the analyst firm shows roughly two-thirds of global IT budgets for 2008 are still unchanged
Turn-key policy plan by Dutch government
Talkback An English translation of the Dutch policy plan on open standards and opensource can be downloaded here: http://appz.ez.nl/publicaties/pdfs/07ET15.pdf This plan is being implemented right now and...
RE:‘Spring Clean’ Your Inbox
Blog Comment People in bussiness who have 5000 emails, and i can tell you lots of people do, seem to think that it is neccessary and that on our Mail Servers we have infinate amount of Disk space to store...
Virgin Trains boosts in-carriage mobile coverage
News Vodafone has teamed up with the train operator to boost on-board coverage but warned against discussing business-critical subjects on the phone
Gates - the Master of FUD
Talkback IF there is a shred of truth to what Gates said, and IF Microsoft has learned anything from the Vista fiasco regarding cooperation and coordination with OEMs, ensuring availability of device...
RE:Great “Quotation” Expectations
Blog Comment This has always been my favorite - and NOT because of the coincidence with the name: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Microsoft fixes Vista SP1 endless reboot cycle
News Automatic distribution is being resumed for a Vista SP1 prerequisite update that caused a reboot loop for some users during installation
Bad News
Talkback For the organisations which we have heard find Phorm technology acceptable, I say wake up and smell the coffee. Firstly if the technique is not illegal, it ought to be, despite all the posturing....
