Previous DaySo this is remote working!
Blog Last Thursday was my first full day of proper remote working. Ouch. For a start, I was supposed to be back at The Cottage much earlier. But due to a combination of persuasive friends and an...
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Blog Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Microsoft is feeding us these coding condiments not...
RE:Asus's homeopathic Eee
Blog Comment This situation does seem remarkable. I have seen asus laptops with some pretty good specs selling for around £500. What I had hoped for the Eee concept, was that it would stay tiny, but over the...
Losing it?
Talkback Nokia had a good thing going for business solutions with its Communictaor series. Then they decided to drop telefax-function, neglecting that in business a lot of fax-traffic is still going strong....
HP ProCurve acquires Colubris
News The company is targeting the 802.11n Wi-Fi market with the purchase of Colubris Networks for an undisclosed sum
Lotus Notes on the iPhone
Blog One of the barriers to corporate adoption of Apple's bundle of joy has been the lack of support for Lotus Notes: it's Exchange-only right now, Jeebusphone fanboiz. However, such things are about to...
Cracking open Apple's iPhone 3G
Photo TechRepublic's Bill Detwiler investigates the inner workings of Apple's latest iPhone
RE:Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog Comment So far my friends and family Vista experience has been pretty good (I have some issues with Codecs on a 64 bit system but I think I've found workarounds for most problems). Mum and dad support has...
Android slips onto YouTube (possibly)
Blog Is this the HTC Dream, bearing Google's Android OS? According to the chap who uploaded this clip to YouTube, it's genuine, but frankly I don't have the foggiest. It does look like an intriguing...
Free ACM Linux research available online
Blog The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has made the Linux edition of its 'SIGOPS Operating System Review' available online, security site Heise reports. Hosted on the ACM's 'Portal',...
Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack
News The Georgian Embassy in the UK has accused Russia of launching cyberattacks to coincide with military hostilities over the weekend
Asus's homeopathic Eee
Blog Ah, Asus and its Eee brand. It all started off so well with the Eee 701, with its titchy 7" screen and lightweight, cheap-as-chips goodness. Then the second and third generations rolled in with...
Intel announces Nehalem desktop branding
News Chipsets using the company's new microarchitecture will find their way into high-end desktops from the last quarter of this year, under the name 'Core i7'
RE:Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog Comment It's sad when the response to the question "How much memory should I need for Vista?", requires the practised and truly well-worn line "As much as possible". I can’t think of anything worse than...
Dell expected to lose 'cloud computing' trademark bid
News The US Patent and Trademark Office has backtracked on an earlier move to grant Dell trademark rights to the term 'cloud computing'
Facebook reassures users after malware warnings
News The company claims less than .002 percent of Facebook users have been affected by malware reported by Sophos and Kaspersky Lab
Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog It didn't seem fair to wade into Microsoft's “Mojave Experiment” advert quite so soon after the flat earth incident. But The Economist has no such qualms: in this week's issue, it wonders if it had...
Gov't battles EU over use of air-passenger data
News The UK government argues EU proposals to restrict the use of air-passenger data will harm the fight against terrorism and organised crime
... But Still a Few Things Amiss (with Vista)
Blog It's not all roses with Vista, of course. I had my first BSOD over the weekend, when I was turning the laptop back on after suspending it. They typical long blurb about "If this is the first...
