Previous DayMobile Linux Could Open Door For Universal Mobile Torrents
Blog Mobile Linux Could Open Door For Universal Mobile Torrents By: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com As a mobile Operating System (OS), mobile Linux is quickly emerging as the platform of choice...
RE:Mobile search advertisements: nicer or nastier?
Blog Comment Totally - it's intelligently deployed location-based services that "could" be most welcome if they come in the shape of GPS-aware advertisements. We've mentioned China already - but it's actually...
Government puts data sharing in the spotlight
News A consultation has been launched that will examine how and when personal information should be used
Commodore 64 celebrates 25th birthday
Talkback I started on Commodore in 1981 with the VIC-20. Still have one and a 128-D, and still works perfectly. Worst mistake I ever made was buying a windows machine, instead of an APPLE, in 1992. Too much...
RE:Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment I spoke too soon - here's the response from DSG/Currys: First, can we apologise for the delay in replying but also that you were not properly informed at the time of purchase that a USB cable...
New Skype Release Available
Blog A new Skype release has been made available for download. It appears to have fixed the massive Page Fault problem, and to have restored the ability to increase video resolution by editing the...
Homebrew door entry application for my Mozart media / security system
Blog Homebrew door entry application The application is produced using Visual Basic because it will be portable for the PDA application. The PDA version will not contain database due to cost and...
Making sense of content management
Vendorboard Oracle's Tarik Ozyurt discusses how to put systems in place to avoid being drowned in unstructured data
Win a Netgear 1TB ReadyNAS storage appliance
Competition Want to get your storage sorted in the New Year? Day 5 offers a prize of Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+, with 1TB of networked capacity to take home.
LiPS Forum releases mobile Linux specs
News The industry alliance announces its first comprehensive set of specifications for Linux on the handset
RE:Mobile search advertisements: nicer or nastier?
Blog Comment Online advertising could go two ways, either very successfully or very badly. Like you said Adrian, unrelated searches aren't going to draw the customers at a volume needed to warrant the...
Forget me not - until at least 6 months.
Talkback It's a very nice feature to have on a search website but is it one with a limited lifespan? I remembered the dabte earlier this year where the EU's Article 29 Working party targeted Googles...
YouTube generation key to mobile WiMax uptake
News Juniper Research has predicted a bright future for mobile WiMax if service providers successfully target the right demographic
Win top gadgets in our Christmas giveaway
News Some fantastic prizes are up for grabs over the 12 days of ZDNet.co.uk's Christmas competition. There's a different prize each working day, so plenty of chances to bag yourself some top tech gear
RE:Skype planning multiparty videocalls etc
Blog Comment Ah yes - good point. I did ask again about the video issue (so many questions, so little space to write them all up). Here's what Stefan said: "It was a backdoor that we never intended to use as a...
Commodore 64 celebrates 25th birthday
News An anniversary presentation for the C64 was held at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, with guests including Apple's Steve Wozniak
Whose best interests did he say they were looking out for?
Talkback I have read this article through several times, and I still can't find any significant new information from Skype, and I certainly don't see what Skype was doing that could be construed as...
Skype planning multiparty videocalls etc
Blog I popped over to Skype's West End offices yesterday to interview Stefan Oberg - VP Telecoms - about a range of issues, most importantly the 0207 debacle and the possibility of Skype opening up its...
RE:Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment So have finally heard back from HP over why they are opting not to put USB cables in with their printers anymore. No surprises in the answer apart from the last bit: "HP's experience is that there...
Alcatel-Lucent launches gateway for SOA security
News The company has launched an all-in-one network appliance designed to handle authorisation tasks for web services, as well as acceleration and auditing
Top 30 offshoring hotspots announced
News Gartner has released a list of the world's top 30 offshoring locations to help managers 'daunted' by the number of choices available
Microsoft: Vista bought but not deployed
News The company has said it is pleased with enterprise sales of Vista, but admits that many businesses are yet to deploy the software
Skype tries to regain business users' trust
News The VoIP provider has given the background to the debacle which saw thousands of 0207 SkypeIn numbers withdrawn, promising it was a one-off occurrence
RE:Wireless standards: the early years
Blog Comment I was very active with packet radio networking here in Texas with a group of amateurs that put TexNet together. Yes we got a certain amount of resistance from the guys running the voice repeaters...
Guess which google function should probably be disabled (for...
Talkback Until this gets resolved, it would appear that anyone who clicks the "I'm Feeling Lucky" google search button is probably waaay ~under-informed~ about just how "Lucky" it might be to go straight to...
RE:Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment In front of me is a retractable 75Cm USB cable. It has AM-BM for printer, AM-Mini 5P for cameras and MP3 players, AM-AF so that it can be used as an extension cable. It was expensive - 99p from my...
