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Talkback Supporting IT under non-tec managment is the biggest challenge one can face, where you look like a fool to let your non-IT / non-Tech boss or manager know that problem in downloading emails is...
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street...
No guarantees for Google in its mobile mission
Analysis Adapting Google's successful web offerings for use on mobile phones is an important work in progress — and unlikely to be easy
Microsoft introduces standalone Outlook
News Only available previously as a networked application, Outlook can now be bought as a standalone package aimed at small businesses
Microsoft: Streaming Office 'infringes licence'
News A UK ISP denies Microsoft's claim that, by 'streaming' a version of the flagship Office product, the ISP is infringing on Redmond's licence regulations
How to lead the unleadable
Leader The secret of leading open-source projects is that there is no secret
Cisco: Innovators don't wait for standards
Q&A Cisco's Nick Watson discusses 802.11n, the battle with Microsoft in unified communications, and security issues with Unified Communications Manager
Not even then
Talkback "I might support the I.D. cards if they contain limited information and are only used to know who's in the country and who's not, but then we already have passports for that!" The plan seems to be...
Fall in applicants to be IT teachers
News The number of students applying for postgraduate IT teacher training courses has fallen, boding ill for the skills shortage
BitMicro announces 1.6TB solid-state drive
News The new drive crams 1.6TB into standard 3.5-inch format, but it's not ready for delivery just yet
BT Broadband
Talkback As it appears that a great many of BT's Broadband customers are migrating to the competition, probably on price rather than speed, the most obvious solution surely is for BT to lower their monthly...
Do software engineers think about hardware?
Blog After spending some time on the phone to Symbian this morning I thought it was kind of interesting to note that a lot of the discussion I had with this operating system company was focused on...
Pipex pushes broadband for SMEs
News Now owned by Tiscali, Pipex is keen to target the small to medium-sized business market with its ADSL2+ services, along with a new portal
How to make power-walking even sillier
Blog ZDNet.co.uk’s Dialogue Box has a regular feature called Axis of Awesome – where tech is rated on axis of useful to useless and cool to uncool. A definite contender for the useful but not cool...
The future of banking at HP Innovation Day
Photo In London this week, the company hosted around 150 financial experts anxious to see HP tech that could help with the business of making money
ARM to show Android prototype
News The chip designer plans to show a prototype mobile phone based on Google's Android platform next Monday at the Mobile World Congress wireless show
Nice try, Vodafone
Blog Along comes a press release today from the Vodafone Group, entitled "Vodafone builds on its leading daily data roaming tariff with cut-price monthly option". The release begins: "Vodafone today...
Botnet more dangerous than Storm?
Blog Reports are starting to circulate of a botnet being seeded that could be more insidious than Storm, currently the largest and most sophisticated network of compromised computers. An article in...
Early Computers
Talkback Fascinating. I am in process of resurrecting two Transtec Krypton Computors which ran on CPM.To start you loaded the OS from a 5inch floppy and stored data on other floppies. It was designed I...
Ballmer will let Yahoo brand live
Blog Just as city types are nervous that the US and UK will “talk themselves into recession” - surely there’s also a danger of the tech industry talking Yahoo into acquiescing to Microsoft’s bear hug...
Windows without IE? What about Windows "N"?
Talkback This is a nasty, thorny issue, and I don't see any sort of decent solution to it. I'm not a Microsoft fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I also don't like seeing silly, superfluous...
Illegal-software crackdown targets Glasgow
News The Business Software Alliance is investigating 41 firms after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for counterfeit software
DoH: Granger has stepped down from NHS
News The Department of Health has confirmed that Richard Granger has left his post as director general of the NHS National Programme for IT
Does this mean that...
Talkback You've discovered a way for the common or garden man/woman/person/beastie in the street to use Windows Update without IE being installed? I am presuming that by removed, you mean lock, stock and...
Live Workshop Rivalry: Build Your Presentation Mind On the Road
Blog Not a great presentation can be just made by an impulse on an office desktop. You probably catch an excellent idea to strengthen your presentation on the road home or far far away from your...
No
Talkback "The poll found the majority of respondents support creating a separate database of every child in the UK, creating a central identity register" No! Absolutely not! That commits our children who...
