Previous DayNetbook and Broadband Wireless
Blog I picked up a new 3G/HSPA Broadband Wireless card last week, and I have been working on getting it going in the HP 2133 Mini-Note. Of course, I've had a Sierra Wireless AirCard 880 PCMCIA for...
RE:Application Syncopation: the ‘irregular’ beat of the virtual...
Blog Comment Adrian. Surely 150 virtual desktops on just 32gb of ram is stretching things to the limit. How much room does that leave for applications in such an environment? Or is the idea to host the...
Google, others team up on 'white space' database
News The search giant and several other technology companies have united to help the FCC come up with a database for services in the unused slivers of spectrum
More Microsoft mobile rumours abound
Blog If all the rumours about Microsoft's announcements at Mobile World Congress next week are true, Redmond will be: 1) Announcing Windows Mobile 6.5 2) Announcing its own smartphone 3) Announcing...
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog Reading a paper by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) last week on privacy guards in EU ID card schemes raised some interesting questions for me. The thing that jumped...
IBM targets intelligent infrastructure
News In a varied announcement the company launched some new and some revamped products and services
BT turns business customers into Wi-Fi hotspots
News Nine months after it revealed its intentions to ZDNet UK, BT has turned its latest business routers into hotspots that can be used to offer Wi-Fi for free or for profit
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News A database that will enable the government to track everybody entering and leaving the UK has been criticised by political parties and privacy campaigners
Outsourcer Satyam names new CEO
News The Indian outsourcer has announced that AS Murty is CEO effective immediately, following the resignation of former chairman Ramalinga Raju who admitted inflating the company's revenue
LiMo sets standard for mobile Linux widgets
News As well as endorsing the Bondi web app standard, the LiMo Foundation has also announced that Vodafone, Orange and O2 will be bringing out Linux phones this year
Hold on ??!
Talkback The ID card is supposed to be based on the technology they used for the RFID passport. We were sold this white elephant partly on the basis that it was the same tech and so would be usable across...
RIM execs to pay £50m in backdating settlement
News While Canada's securities commission has approved the £50m deal to settle the stock-options case, the executives still have to come to terms with US regulators
Application Syncopation: the ‘irregular’ beat of the virtual desktop
Blog I want all my applications on my machine all of the time – don’t I? That’s why I installed Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (it really is better than people say) the other day. I download apps to my...
Lenovo to focus attentions on the Chinese market
News With the company back in the hands of Chinese executives, it will now concentrate more heavily on its home market, according to a newspaper report
Facebook launches APIs in bid to boost apps
News The social-networking powerhouse has released a series of APIs in a push to generate more apps and more sharing
Vodafone, 3 to merge Australian operations
News Vodafone and Hutchison Telecommunications, which delivers 3 mobile services, have announced plans to combine their Australian operations in a 50-50 joint venture
Lotus Symphony 1.2
Review Although the interface of IBM's free office suite is attractive, its hunger for system resources and lack of features and OOXML support mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is a better free alternative.
netbooks - missed point
Talkback Am I the only one that is beginning to think that the manufacturers are missing the point of a Netbook? look at the orginal Asus EEE pc thats the defination of a netbook 1. lightweight 2. small 3....
Dongle power users to get 4G first
News As operators start looking at deploying a successor to their 3G networks, power users could be among the first to be shifted onto higher-speed mobile networks
Dialogue Box 5.7: A projector in the hand
Video Take a DLP chip and combine it with a low-power LED lamp and you have a projection engine that can run off battery power and fit in a smartphone-sized case. Dialogue Box takes a peek at the new...
Kangaroo technology may bounce back
News The technology developed for the now defunct Kangaroo online TV service could still be used despite the project being blocked by the Competition Commission
OLPC invites laptop makers to copy their design
News Founder Nicholas Negroponte says the OLPC will open source its hardware design and invite others to copy it, according to a report from the TED conference
Kaspersky denies data leak following SQL hack
News The US website of the Russian antivirus vendor has been hacked and the company's customer database exposed, but Kaspersky denies data was compromised
