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Archive - 12 Oct 2006

Carphone Warehouse hits out at rivals

News A day after buying AOL UK, Carphone Warehouse accuses Vodafone and Phones 4u of signing an unethical exclusivity deal and gets its own tongue-lashing from Tiscali

Autonomy sees record quarter ahead

News UK search company is promising to deliver strong results later this month

Europe extends open source resource

News Local government application collaboration is top of the agenda

Spam is in the eye of the beholder

Leader An industry code of conduct is the only sure way to tell spammers from enthusiastic e-marketers

The Joy Of Timekeeping

Blog Wednesday, I get a call from the BBC World Service, saying would I like to take part in World Business Review - a discussion programme - about the whole Google/YouTube malarkey. WBR is a good 'un,...

Goodbye Palm, hello Access Linux Platform

News The Palm OS has officially ceased to be, giving way to Access Linux Platform. But analysts say the platform's future is unpredictable

Is Firefox still gaining on IE?

News One recent set of statistics shows Firefox increased its market share against Internet Explorer, while other figures suggest Microsoft is fighting back

That's why there is no record of them

Blog Those random chunks of text that propel spam through semantic filters have always seemed to me like the Net dreaming to itself. Now the process has been animated... ...

Platform groupies, step right up

Blog A contest has been launched -- on the web, naturally -- to find the "best" web platform, whatever that may mean. It's a true head-to-head programming contest, rather than just a shouting match...

Archbishops should be required to remove their mitres

Blog We live in a multicultural society. And if that means I can order up a Polish plumber to unblock the bog after it's been clogged with the after-effects of a Turkish kebab, then I'm all for it. ...

Mobile WiMax to hit UK mid-2007

News Nortel executive says a UK provider will be trialling its 35Mbps-capable mobile WiMax system from early next year, but not as a mobile technology

Welcome to the productdome

Blog 'This week, I have mostly been reviewing...' That's the standard entry you'll probably find on this blog in future, along with rants about PR companies, product managers, couriers -- and of...

Citrix readies virtualisation upgrade

News Desktop Broker will provide the ability to support more types of user on a virtualised environment

Google brings Writely and Spreadsheets together

News Docs & Spreadsheets spices up the Web productivity space, but Google insists it's not gunning for the desktop

Fiorina: HP board let emotion overrule reason

Q&A Q&A: Former chief executive talks about her experiences on the company's board, being a woman in a male-dominated world and what she makes of the recent spying scandal

Microsoft: Patching problems are over

News This week's Microsoft security fixes are now flowing automatically, following earlier problems

BP employees get DIY IT

News Pilot project gives staff $1,000 to spend on their own equipment and support

VIA launches 'carbon free' computing

News Company admits that the term 'carbon free' may not be 100 percent accurate, but insists machines using its chips are kinder to the planet than other models

Portland 1.0 brings Linux interfaces together

News Builder: Initiative aims to bridge the gap between KDE and GNOME

Transmeta hits Intel with patent suit

News Having failed to beat Intel in the marketplace, Transmeta is turning to the courtroom

Windows Vista RC2

Preview We think the overall quality of this Windows Vista Ultimate edition is not deserving of final release candidate status, and we expect to see at least one more interim build -- or perhaps even...

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