Previous DayMemristor - everything changes
Blog At least two or three times a week, we get a press release about some fundamental breakthrough in nanotechnology, silicon engineering, wireless or similar. Normally, the story is rather less...
OpenOffice 3 enters beta stage
News Sun has released the first beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, adding features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard
Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will 'change the consciousness of the industry' to do it
Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
News Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
News Sun's MySQL database unit has reversed on plans to release important backup features under a proprietary licence, following criticism from the open-source community
RE:Social networking and portability
Blog Comment I totally agree that the social networking companies themselves will never sanction this if they are making money from keeping people's personal data. However - if tools and standards are created...
comp tia a+ home learning courses?
Forum The CompTIA A+ is worth having and enhances a CV, but it's not worth spending loads of money on. Get yourself a good book (Mike Meyers is particularly good for the A+, see http://www.totalsem.com/)...
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News The British-North American Committee and chief executive of ICANN claim business leaders are not taking data breaches seriously enough
WiMax to 'cover the UK' within two years
News Intel Capital EMEA's managing director claims WiMax will soon be widely available for users of portable devices
Sun previews JavaFX-powered game
Video Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to members of the JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moontank using the JavaFX environment
Corporate Express reaps rewards of virtualisation
Case Study The business-supply giant has saved £867,000 and ditched over 90 percent of its server hardware thanks to server virtualisation
Sun execs show off JavaFX widgets
Video At JavaOne, Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how JavaFX-powered applets can be deployed within a web browser or dragged over to the desktop
RSA: Security as an afterthought hobbles business
Video Art Coviello, president of RSA, explains why IT security is like the brakes on a car and how it can be an enabler of business initiatives
MPs attack 'flimsy' gov't sums on shared services
News The Public Accounts Committee has called for greater analysis of government shared corporate services to ensure value for money
How many headshots does one chairperson need?
Blog We got a strange request last week from the head of PR from Russian security experts Kaspersky. It seems although the company was very happy with the interview we recently carried with its...
Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform
News The collaboration aims to provide developers with web-presentation capabilities for GlassFish, Sun's open-source Java Platform Enterprise Edition application server
NHS rolls out infection-resistant keyboards
News Keyboards with cleanliness sensors and a germ-resistant coating are being introduced in a bid to make hospitals cleaner and safer
IT spend slows in retail sector
News According to the latest IT in Retail report, spending growth has stalled, as many retailers try to do more with the same money
JavaOne: notes from the classroom
Blog This blog continues the reports I’m making on perceptions of JavaOne which I am attending this week in San Francisco. ' TS-6623 More Effective Java Following my session experience...
