Previous DayA look at the most exciting gadgets of CES 2009
Photo Its name may be the Consumer Electronics Show, but this year's event had plenty to excite business users. ZDNet UK takes a look at the most interesting innovations at CES 2009
Microsoft: Phishing losses greatly over-estimated
News Phishers make much less from their scams than analysts have estimated, according to research from the software maker
MS on how to make Windows Mobile competitive
Blog The key to making Windows Mobile a fiercer rival to the iPhone etc is, according to a New York Times interview with WinMob marketing bod Todd Peters, to put the operating system onto fewer...
A front-to-back peek at the new Palm Pre
Photo Mobile pioneer Palm makes a bid to recover its mojo with the Palm Pre, announced on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
New tools aim to improve gov't IT procurement
News The Office of Government Commerce hopes two new tools will help the government improve its record on large-scale projects, while helping the private sector to contribute
Joomled! HTML entities not displaying
Blog I've had a real problem with the Joomla! site that I'm building -- the HTML entities kept disappearing, so that & became & and threw an error in the HTML validator. As everyone knows, HTML...
SanDisk speeds up SSDs
Blog The latest SanDisk 120GB solid-state drive (SSD) costs less than $250, SanDisk says which makes it look like a neat replacement SSD for hard disk storage. Good for solving the problem when you may...
Windows 7 Beta: screenshot gallery
Photo The first public beta of Windows 7 (Build 7000) is now available for download. Here's a tour of the upcoming successor to Vista.
2009 - a year for open source clouds?
Blog Open source is pretty much a given in cloud computing, but this year we're going to see more efforts to define the way those clouds are built and used. According to both Citrix and Red Hat,...
Radio site defaced by 'Soldier of Allah'
Blog A radio station website has been defaced by a hacker claiming to be a 'Soldier of Allah'. The Radio Basingstoke website was compromised on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, website co-owner and radio...
Apple tunes up Keynote features
Video At Macworld 2009, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, demonstrates new features of the company's Keynote software, which enables users to create dynamic presentations
and time for you to prepare for 2009......
Talkback Interesting to see that Microsoft did not release an out of band patch for Microsoft Security Advisory (961040), which addresses a vulnerability in SQL Server. The company has published a...
Skype Lite? Don't bite.
Blog Whoopie! Skype has come to the Android! Or so I thought. But no - what appeared in the Android Market was Skype Lite, billed as a heavily cut down version of the Skype software. Cut down, I can...
What's a good computer name ?
Blog A friday fancy for you all. Computer have got to the saturation point like cars of Perfumes what do call them these days ? A Vaio P what is the P for godsake all those Dell HP and 70000000000...
Palm unveils new OS and handset
News The company hopes its new webOS operating system and Palm Pre handset will reverse its recently declining fortunes
Sony sees 90 percent of its world online
Blog The world is going online in a big way and Sony believes it can see just how much. According to the company's chief executive, Sir Howard Stringer, 90 percent of the products made by Sony,...
A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog Because of my multi-boot setup, and the fact that I am more or less continually reloading one distribution or another, I've had to look a bit deeper into setting up and configuring GRUB recently....
Tech-job demand bucks economic trend
News Tech jobs appear to be suffering less during the economic downturn than those in other sectors, according to a survey by KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation
Satyam braced for competitor takeover bid
News Outsourcing giant Satyam could soon be snapped up by competitors, according to one industry expert
Microsoft prepares to patch critical Windows hole
News The software maker says a fix is coming on Patch Tuesday for an unspecified critical hole in various operating-system versions that could allow a hacker to gain control of a computer remotely
Skype booms amid economic downturn
News The internet telephony provider may be one of the only technology companies thriving as the economy tanks
Windows 7 beta should you install it?
Blog Well the Windows 7 beta is out there and the big question is if you should install it? As always with Windows Beta programs you will need to be careful. If you are currently running Vista then...
Yahoo reportedly near decision on new CEO
News The search pioneer is close to wrapping up its search for a new chief executive according to a Wall Street Journal report, and a decision could come as early as next week
Ballmer on Google, the economy and Windows 7
Q&A The Microsoft chief executive talks about Windows, taking software to the web, competing with the search king and the troubled economy
Corner-shop Software Cornerstones
Blog Somewhere around a decade ago when Compaq’s arguably most-revered CEO Mr Eckhard Pfeiffer left his tenure at the helm of that particular ship, I joined him and left my role in the Middle East where...
