Previous DayComputers and Camel Meat
Blog I’m nearing the end of my days here in Bangalore India with Yahoo and managed to get an afternoon off to walk the streets and see the ‘other side’ of Bangalore. Having seen TechParks, offices, a...
Businesses advised to register .asia domains
News Companies with an Asian presence should consider registering .asia domain names to prevent cybersquatting, internet registries have argued
IBM and Google team up on cluster computing
News A joint academic initiative has been launched through which the companies will provide data centres for remote programming
Dell looks to Asia for partnership opportunities
News The company has confirmed that it plans to pursue alliances throughout the region, similar to its recent deal with Chinese electronics retailer Gome
Spam accounts for 70 percent of emails
News A report from Symantec has found that spam in HTML emails is still widespread, although PDF, image and e-card attacks are decreasing
RAC Satnav 220
Review The RAC Satnav 220 is bigger than the average sat-nav device, but its wide-format screen is a real boon. The Fuzzy Search tool is excellent, and the inclusion of TMC data makes this a nicely...
Debating Telecoms harmonisation in East Africa
Blog The East African Community, in its current form, was established as a partnership between Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in 2001. Burundi and Rwanda joined the Community in 2007. The purpose of the...
Microsoft disables IE7 validation process
News The software giant has dropped the need for Windows Genuine Advantage authentication when offering IE7 for download, which could help it in the race against Firefox
Further growth from RIM
Blog RIM / Blackberry has just reported adding 1.45m subscribers to their base in the 2Q of 2007. They have also passed the milestone of 10m users worldwide. Reports I saw at the end of last year...
IBM ploughs deeper into SME market
News Scaled-down versions of Rational Build Forge and Tivoli Network Manager head a raft of product announcements by IBM, which it hopes will attract smaller customers
Is the food any better?
Talkback It won't change my dining habbits. McDonalds have a reputation, and having been dragged into one of the refurbished "restaurants" by my son, I can say they are living up to that reputation. I go...
Mobile-roaming cuts hailed success
News Regulations forcing mobile operators to introduce a cheaper Eurotariff have led to a 60 percent reduction in prices, says the EC
Interactive content-driven applications
Vendorboard Oracle's Tarik Ozyurt outlines how Web 2.0 and web services can help businesses improve how they work with data content from multiple sources
SAP to acquire Business Objects
News The applications giant is set to buy the business intelligence software provider to bolster its competitive challenge to Oracle
xG update
Blog My favourite Floridians, xG, are in the news. Sort of. For those who've missed the story so far: xG has a new wireless broadband technology called variously xMax or xG Flash Signal, which it has...
AMD's Barcelona: benchmarks
Tech Guide AMD's long-awaited quad-core server CPUs finally arrived last month, with clock speeds up to 2GHz. So how do they perform? We have some preliminary results.
McDonald's serves up free Wi-Fi
News Outlets across the UK are set to become wireless hotspots, as the fast-food chain attempts to update its image and attract more business users
Cambridge University tackles web-traffic rise
News The university is using network-management software to cope with a huge increase in web traffic across its network
Scotland to resolve broadband reach
News A scheme launched by the Scottish government aims to provide broadband to individuals and businesses who have access problems
Cybersquatting escalates in Asia
News Inexpensive domain names are fuelling the growth of cybersquatting in the region
RE:Jajah, eBay and the telepathic PR
Blog Comment Yes I can confirm that chat buttons have long been banned. The policy was clarified a couple of years ago when it was starting to become popular. It is also true that Skype buttons were not...
