Previous DayThe way forward: Mobile health in Kenya
Blog My name is Titus Kolongei, and I work as a health information officer with the Division of Vaccines and Immunization, formerly KEPI (the Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunizations). My work entails...
Head Banging
Talkback I find it hard to believe after all this time there are still buffer overrun situations in supposedly professional software. I learned the hard way on the original BBC Model B when trying some...
RE:Is embedded software just not sexy?
Blog Comment And for heaven sakes keep your shoes tied! A buddy of mine got a ticket for untied shoes in Singapore. As to "sexy" embedded software? I suppose that there really is a place for software that...
When is a computer company not a computer company?
Blog When its DELL? DELL announced that its going to sell all of its factories. Not some, all. I guess there's a lot of unhappy Texans going to be looking for work, maybe. Or maybe its going to be a...
Wireless can be worse!
Talkback By the time we switched to Powerline our wireless computers were detecting ELEVEN other networks nearby (we are in a building containing a large number of small offices) and nobody was getting a...
Dialogue Box 4.9: Browsers, benchmarks and betas
Video Like everyone else, Dialogue Box has been poring over Google's Chrome browser. See how fast it runs JavaScript on an Asus Eee compared to Internet Explorer 7, and more
IBM storage keeps tape alive and kicking
Photo Tape may be old-fashioned but it still has a home at IBM, taking a prominent place in the company's recent, wide-ranging storage launch
London Stock Exchange recovers after outage
News A full day's trading was effectively wiped from the books, but the exchange has not yet revealed the reason behind the glitch
Opera signs up to Symbian Foundation
News The browser company is one of the latest additions to the mobile-industry consortium, which intends to turn Symbian, UIQ and Series 60 into an open-source platform
It's the same problem most museams face
Talkback Bletchley Park does charge an admission fee, the problem isn't that, or even government support. It faces the same problems countless other museams face across the country. When a news story occurs...
What's Lenovo's Linux stance?
Blog A fascinating story here from the Desktop Linux website, which appears to suggest that Lenovo has stopped offering its ThinkPad, IdeaPad, ThinkCentre and IdeaCentre lines with preinstalled Linux...
Transparent solar cell? Can't see it myself
Blog News from the Far East: Japan's National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) has built a prototype boron nitride solar cell. Boron nitride (BN) is one of that interesting class of materials that...
Google halves data-retention time
News Under pressure from regulators in Europe, Google is significantly cutting the amount of time it retains users' IP addresses
Vodafone to sell Dell netbook in Europe
News The operator will sell the Inspiron Mini 9 with built-in mobile broadband in 'key European markets' from late September, but the exact countries, pricing and release dates are yet to be announced
Home Office: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith has said the number of cards issued will rise rapidly after April 2009
NHS IT contractors to be paid £1.1bn extra
News Following contract reset negotiations, the amount paid under the six main National Programme for IT contracts has risen from £5.5bn to £6.6bn
McAfee offers near-instant malware updates
News Using a built-in communication channel, the security vendor's Artemis Technology can detect and remove suspicious new malicious software as it pops up
Bletchley Park
Talkback You would think the government would want to preserve this historical site. They could make money by charging an entrance fee, and to help in the maintenance cost.
US mulls antitrust challenge to Google-Yahoo deal
News The US Department of Justice has hired an antitrust litigator to head any legal action over the planned search-ad partnership, according to reports
Custom Windows Embedded to go for a test drive
News Microsoft will this week demo a GPS device running a tailored version of its mobile operating system
HP: We've broken 24-hour battery-life barrier
News Using a laptop equipped with high-end components, including Intel SSDs, HP claims to have reached a mobile-computing milestone
A fair list
Talkback Your list seems well thought out and fair to both Windows and Linux. I would make a couple of comments, however. #5) Microsoft PowerShell is a pretty good command line for Windows, integrating...
HTC Touch Pro
Review HTC's Touch Pro fixes many of the problems with the Touch Diamond and adds a superb keyboard. It remains neat and compact, while battery life is improved (if still not perfect).
Twitter page used to spread malware
News Criminal hackers are exploiting the microblogging site to spread malware, according to a security researcher
Google steams ahead with 'floating datacentre'
News The search giant has filed a patent for a datacentre that uses wave motion to power on-board computers and the ocean's water to cool them
Ubuntu details plans for 'Jaunty Jackalope'
News The project's founder Mark Shuttleworth has said Ubuntu 9.04 will focus on improving boot time and blurring the line between desktop applications and web-based software
Google share price takes a dive
News The search giant's stock fell nearly 5.5 percent, despite a sudden rise in the broader markets
New ooVoo Release for Mac
Blog A new release of ooVoo for Mac is available, version 1.5.1.83. While still technically a "beta" release, this update brings the Mac version much closer to the Windows version. The major addition...
Smartphone sales reflect weak global economy
News The devices are still growing at a strong pace around the world, but they aren't immune to economic conditions that have slowed that increase compared to earlier in the year
Build Web Presentations with Presenter's Video
Blog Are you suffering the high cost and continual repetition of live presentations? “As a president, I always join many meetings and trade shows to present our products or corporation. There is no...
Google releases Chrome security updates
News The search giant has published details of two critical-risk vulnerabilities and some lesser issues it says are fixed
Why the wait for Ubuntu?
Talkback Dell and Canonical have been at this for a year and they missed the release date for the Mini 9? That's a regular Ubuntu Linux under the hood, all they had to do is design that kiosk-like dummified...
PGP boss sets out to save Bletchley Park
Video Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive of PGP, tells ZDNet.co.uk why he's signing the cheques to help save Bletchley Park — and who he's doing it with
