Previous DayRE:Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Comment Ah yes - the longest reboot in history, god knows what OS they must be using. On a recent 10 hour flight I took, the four attempts to reboot took the best part of 4 hours by which point most...
RE:Microsoft makes hard decisions easier
Blog Comment And something else I heard tonight - the WHS design team is separate from any of the other server teams at MS. In other words, the company went to their digital home people and said "Design a...
RE:Nokia's competitors will be...
Blog Comment Nokia's biggest problem here will be that unlike everybody Mr Ainslie cited, they (Nokia) don't have direct contact with their customers: Apple sells [ready-to-use] products, so does HP, Nokia on...
Does BA re-boot its planes?
Blog Grrr… is it just me? Or have you people also been sat at 34,000 feet enjoying your ‘Worcester Sauce’ flavour pretzel bites and G&Ts while tuning into the new BA video on-demand service only to be...
Phishers harness Storm worm botnet
News Domains associated with the Storm worm botnet are being used to host phishing sites, F-Secure and Trend Micro have warned
HP and energy claims raise questions
Blog HP becomes the latest company to make ambitious pledges of energy reduction this week. It says it plans to reduce energy use in its volume desktops and PCs by 25 percent by the year 2010. Well it...
MP: Children must be taught IT security
News Schools minister Jim Knight has said children must learn about the dangers of technology use, and schools must have robust security policies
Vodafone 7.2Mbps USB modems
Review Vodafone's USB Modem 7.2 and USB Modem Stick support the latest 3.5G networks. It's a shame, then, that high-speed network coverage is so sparse.
Happy New Ear from Sony Ericsson
Blog We've had the blindingly obvious from Google: now it's time for the grindingly patronising. Step forward, Sony Ericsson. SE makes, among other things, Bluetooth earpieces. These are incredibly...
The future of classroom tech at BETT
Photo As Microsoft came under criticism from Becta at BETT 2008, plenty of other companies were showing off the latest tech for schools and colleges
BT fibre trial to start in August
News A new development of 10,000 homes at Ebbsfleet will be the first to benefit from 100Mbps fibre access rather than copper
Open Source bug hunters make progress
Blog It's a story that probably got spun many ways, but the bottom line is good news for open source. Code-checking maestro Coverity, working on behalf of the US government, has been checking open...
WiMax & HSDPA
Talkback WiMax obviously has massive potential in the US where cellular networks are so behind the times and public access Wi-Fi is already well established but I am not so sure about in Europe. I have read...
What was in Santa's sack?
Blog Everyone I know (except me) seems to have got an Asus Eee for Christmas — although many seem to have bought it as a present to themselves. Me, I spent all the family's money on a brace of iPods for...
T-Mobile ties Wi-Fi access to mobile broadband
News The operator is allowing some users of its Web'n'Walk mobile broadband service free access to its extensive network of Wi-Fi hotspots
Microsoft dismisses Becta criticism
News The software giant has rejected the schools IT agency's concerns over interoperability and cost issues raised by Vista and Office 2007
HSDPA - Nice indeed
Talkback I can say from personal experience and frequent use, HSDPA is really quite nice. I have a Swisscom Unlimited Data card (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA), which I use quite frequently. I recall that the...
Nokia's competitors will be...
Blog ... Apple and Google. Apparently. That link there is to a very interesting interview on the Mobile Today website with Nokia's UK MD, Simon Ainslie. From the interview: As we’re in more of a...
Government pledges £30m
Talkback I don’t think the industry will trust the Government much as to past history’s with IT schemes that they want people to take-up. Once the scheme is up and running the Government will pull the plug...
Tech-savvy governments to embrace 'Gov 2.0'
News Research has suggested that governments will embrace Web 2.0 technologies in 2008, as e-gov policies have failed to deliver on expectations
Offender-tracking system scrapped due to costs
News As the latest public-sector tech failure is revealed, Socitm condemns the government's track record on IT projects as 'embarrassing'
Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Review Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.
Skype Support - "Artifical Stupidity"?
Blog I have a coffee cup that says "To err is human - to really screw things up you need a computer!". I've always thought that it was kind of silly, but I am now starting to think that Skype's...
Tech is key to tackling EU health costs
News A European Commission report has concluded that joined up IT systems are needed to curb spiralling health service spending
3.5G drives rapid mobile broadband growth
News The number of commercial HSDPA networks launched worldwide shot up by 69 percent in 2007
MS stays behind.
Talkback Microsoft started out behind and remain so. Apple innovates, Microsoft imitates. They buy up companies and claim their IP, turning it into a Microsoft product. People are getting smarter and are...
