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Archive - 08 Oct 2008

apple will get around this.

Talkback So Apple will have to make their batteries removable. That doesn't mean they will have to sell spares in/on the high street. People may still have to send in their gear for a while, but I'm sure...

Shell warns employees of suspected data loss

News A third-party vendor has lost its contract with Shell in the US following the alleged misappropriation of employee social-security numbers

HP to cut over 3,000 former EDS jobs in UK

News The redundancies are part of 9,300 job cutbacks in across the EMEA region, the company confirmed, and are part of the strategy that saw EDS merge with HP

RE:Data Quality - Upstream or Downstream?

Blog Comment We have been evangelizing the benefits of using upstream data quality tools for many years and have clients who have benefited from the process. In fact, we would assert that anyone doing...

RE:xG update - money, mystery and more

Blog Comment Anonymous - well, it's good to know who's behind Treco. Doesn't answer any of the questions I've been asking for all these years, though, and it doesn't read as if Bill talked to any of the people...

ASUS Eee PC 1000

Member Review You buy something like an EEE because it is small and cheap. If it gets any bigger it is not a netbook but a laptop. That said, it is easy to carry about. It performs well and has enough facilities...

Batteries law could force iPhone design change

News Legislation that came into force across Europe late last month may force the redesign of products whose batteries are not removable, such as Apple's iPhone and iPod — but loopholes exist

RIM releases BlackBerry development tools

News Developers will be able to target the functionality of RIM's latest handsets, including the touchscreen Storm handset, using the updated tools

Symantec snaps up MessageLabs for SaaS

News The security giant has announced plans to acquire the hosted email services company in a deal worth £400m

Beta released of Linux-to-BlackBerry sync tool

News Information Appliance Associates has announced a beta release of the first tool to sync Linux user data to the BlackBerry

First touchscreen BlackBerry unveiled

Photo The BlackBerry Storm, which will be released through Vodafone in the UK, has a clickable touchscreen, as well as integrated GPS and accelerometers

US gov't report: Data mining is ineffective

News Using data mining to try to detect terrorists is 'neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts', a report has concluded

Be lets customers 'tune' their connections

News The ISP has started allowing its customers to adjust the noise levels on their broadband connections, letting them decide whether to optimise for speed or reliability

Nexsan adds storage virtualisation to Maid

News The latest version of the company's Assureon archiving system aims to increase scalability and security, and introduces virtualisation into the product line

Yahoo squares up to Google with calendar overhaul

News The internet pioneer plans to revamp its online calendar, adding subscriptions, sharing and targeted advertisements for events

RE:UK to sue Iceland over internet bank collapse

Blog Comment I think that banking although very convinient on the internet, should always have a physical shop front that you can walk into and get cash, cash being the primordial soup. You expend energy, it's...

Obsolescence....

Blog I've just taken a call from a guy who bought a new system and wanted to use his old PS2 keyboard on his new USB only baseunit. He bought an adapter to convert from PS2 to USB and............

Tech stocks fall for second consecutive day

News The Dow Jones industrial average took another hammering on Tuesday, marking the second day in a row it has ended the session below 10,000

UK to sue Iceland over internet bank collapse

Blog The UK government is apparently going to take legal action against the Icelandic government over the collapse of the UK internet bank Icesave, which was of course part of the Icelandic bank...

Unisys names ex-Gateway chief as CEO

News The struggling IT services company has chosen Edward Coleman, whom it says has a long history of transforming troubled tech companies, to take over as chief executive

Search-ad revenues defy economic downturn

News Growth in the market is apparent through the third quarter, despite the financial meltdown, according to an industry report and a Wall Street analyst

Symantec brings cloud-based security to Europe

News The company's chief has said the bulk of its security, back-up and archiving software will be offered as software-as-a-service by March 2009

RE:I’m turning Taiwanese (I really think so)

Blog Comment That's a good one Roger - Vodafone hasn't suggested partial virtualisation yet. But then I don't suppose they would normally do that for your average Bert from Sutton Coldfield would they? I had...

Is this just a load of BSS?

Blog What we really need in the technology zone these days are more acronyms right? I mean, what’s the point in listing out all those cumbersome terms in full to just slow us down? Critics have...

How to Create a Quiz with Free Quiz Template in Adobe Flash

Blog This article will demonstrate how to create a simple online quiz, complete with options for feedback, scoring and tracking, using free Flash quiz template. Please ensure you can manage to use Adobe...

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