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Archive - 09 Oct 2007

RE:BT loses operations chief to Logica CMG

Blog Comment Jesus I hope he is getting a good package. Why leave a solid business like BT to join the shambles of Logica CMG - to quote an FT journalist 'loads of acquisitions, share price going nowhere,...

Radiohead haven't killed the record companies just yet

Blog Just as Britney Spears has become the tabloids' whipping-boy (girl?) as she lurches from one pop-diva disaster to another, predicting the imminent and hopefully painful death of the music industry...

Jasper Wireless targets untapped M2M market

News Mobile operators facing a saturated consumer marketplace may turn to machine-to-machine communications to realise new revenues, claims the company

Dialogue Box 2.1: Inside a blade server

Video Dialogue Box returns for a new series, and steps inside a blade server — with a little help from the magic screwdriver of shrinkage

Gateway plans to snap up Packard Bell

News The PC vendor has exercised its right of first refusal to buy all of Packard Bell's shares, ousting Lenovo from the bidding process

Yoggie Pico Pro

Review Yoggie’s Pico Pro offers a hassle-free approach to notebook security by running 13 security applications from a USB-stick-based Linux appliance.

British troops get free Wi-Fi

News The Ministry of Defence has announced that soldiers on service in Iraq and Afghanistan will have a free wireless internet connection

MPs call for overhaul of Jobcentre IT

News Slow and problematic technology is impeding efficiency at Jobcentre Plus, a Commons Public Accounts Committee report has found

Teradata teams up with SAS

News The former competitors' products will get closer technical integration and benefit from joint marketing and sales pushes, the companies said at Teradata's user-group conference

All day battery life is the clincher

Talkback As laptops get more and more powerful (see the Dell XPS m1730) more and more people are moving from their desktop to their notebook full time. However, devices like the m1730 aren't going to last...

RE:xG update

Blog Comment Are xG another Steorn? Breaking the laws of physics, consuming loads of investors' money on vague promises etc... Talking of which - whats happening with Steorn after the failed demo in London?...

BT loses another 21CN executive

News Andy Green, chief executive of group strategy and operations, has become the second key figure to depart from the telco's £10bn network programme

Microsoft On the Ropes

Talkback Looks like Microsoft are so fearful of loosing further market share to competing browsers that they are, in a huge about turn, prepared to let people who have ripped off their OS to get IE7. If...

Google and the Bendy Jet

Blog An interesting rumour, which I cannot substantiate, has just reached the inbox. SInce there's no fun in blogging unless one gets to post unsubstantiated rumours, let's share it. It seems that...

Freecom DataTank Gateway WLAN

Review Freecom's DataTank Gateway WLAN is a stylish and well-built network drive suited to individuals and small offices. However, business users concerned primarily with data protection and business...

Surface has it's uses

Talkback Bill Gates gave an excellent demonstration of a practical application for a surface table at CES. It was used as the kitchen work surface. When food packets where placed on it the table would show...

BT loses operations chief to Logica CMG

Blog Andy Green is to leave BT after 21 years. The telco's CEO of group strategy and operations will become the chief executive of Logica CMG on January 1 2008. Green led BT's international business...

Europe sees rise in R&D spending

News Latest figures for research and development investment are an improvement on 2006, yet non-EU competitors still take the lead

Who needs .asia domain?

Talkback I wonder, who needs .asia domain? I cannot imagine, what would be useful for Microsoft.asia? Toyota.asia? Then let's register .europe (if .eu is too short). Or perhaps Microsoft.southamerica,...

Time to drop data transmission prices now!

Talkback Sending one SMS is now more expensive than a five-minute call to another EU country (Eurotariff). I don't even try to imagine, how expensive is sending few e-mails... Time to regulate data...

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