Previous DayNot Quite Win-Win
Talkback While it's perfectly true that all ten things would greatly help Linux, I can't see how any of it benefits Microsoft's bottom line, and at the end of the day, that is what lies behind all...
Microsoft to release .NET Micro Framework code
News The technology, aimed at portable devices such as wristwatches, will get a new business model following a round of layoffs that affected its developer team
Wi-Fi slowed by interference, not congestion
News A study commissioned by the telecoms regulator Ofcom has recommended a certification scheme for devices that use the 2.4GHz spectrum band
The unpopular view
Talkback I am going to disagree slightly with my esteemed colleagues. If you acquire a software package for free, your recourse is limited to the amount you paid. You don't get indemnity for nothing. If...
Cambridge rents out HPC for the cloud
News This 'democratisation of HPC' gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer
Medieval secrets behind Microsoft Research
Comment Microsoft will spend $9bn (£6bn) on research and development this year. What it will get in return is harder to quantify
Oracle wants to sell proprietary appliances? Fat chance...
Blog So Oracle, having bought Sun, wants to retain Sun's hardware portfolio. How much sense does that make? Look at it this way. Server and data centre managers love the way that servers have become...
The 'Express Install' railroad to MS.
Talkback I published an article http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39630019-30000030c-20101022o,00.htm about how IE8 defaults at every which way you turn, to MS Products. The worse offender being...
Sun may have broken bribery laws
News Sun discloses a potential breach of US anti-bribery law and reveals a shareholder lawsuit over its Oracle takeover
Tesco tills go down in IT glitch
News The supermarket chain had to close some stores on Monday following computer problems with its tills
ID card scheme costs rise to £400m annually
News Adding fingerprints to passports and recording individual biometric data, plus additional government costs, have sent the price tag on ID cards to well over that of current passports
Samsung R510
Review Samsung's 15.4in. R510 might not be an automatic choice for business use, but it could fit the bill if you need to combine work and leisure on a stylish yet affordable notebook.
software makes should not be held liable
Talkback One question, are you a software developer? I would guess not. Anyone who writes software for Windows will now how hard it is to make software run on all possible software/hardware configurations....
BBC's iPlayer numbers revealed
Q&A iPlayer boss Anthony Rose offers a detailed look at the sheer numbers needed for the popular service's hardware, infrastructure and operation
But who will clean the drains?
Blog My dad went to architectural school in London during the social upheaval of the late '50s, when the world was still in black and white, Britain's imperial pretensions lay in tatters, Elvis had yet...
Broadband Cravasse Opening up.
Talkback A 2MB rural Broadband target is just going along with what will already occur through market forces even if they didn't spend money on all these quangos, promoting universal coverage - its...
In-flight broadband business to surge
News According to estimates by analyst house In-Stat, there will be more than 200 million in-flight broadband connections annually by 2013, with the long-haul connections dominating
Virgin starts 200Mbps broadband trials
News Around 100 'pilot customers' will take part in a trial of the high-speed broadband, which is four times faster than the company's current fastest fat pipe service
Symbian Foundation 2010 roadmap: ‘the open route to openness’
Blog Formed in June 2008 after a Nokia buyout, the Symbian Foundation is an organisation that aims to fully open up the mobile operating system. David Wood is a key member of the organisation’s new...
RE:Software licence management - your experiences?
Blog Comment While the business I work for has thankfully avoided the issue of software licencing for many a year, several customers have indicated that it was a non-trivial drain on money and resources to...
