Previous DayTrainspotting, South London style
Blog Earlier this year we moved from Tower Hill to Southwark, only to find ourselves just one of a number of media hotbeds in the area. While our new home has its teething problems – the mystery...
Symbian UIQ 3.0 - SonyEricsson M600i
Talkback erm... I remember having to reboot (switch off) my M600i, but not when; it really was that long time ago. There were some early problems with P990i sonyericsson based on roughly the same software...
RE:Dell runs out of...glass?
Blog Comment And while I'm spurting... The front of LCDs is often plastic, for optical reasons and general robustness, but you have to have glass beneath. That's because LCDs are made like silicon chips -...
Red Hat and Novell hit with Linux patent suit
News The Linux vendors have been sued for patent infringement by a 'portfolio licensing' company called IP Innovation
Google and Sun will fight it out...
Talkback Just be pinged this comment from the guys at analysts The451: 451 analyst Dan Golding has this to say on the computers in a crate patent scrap: It's worth remembering that Sun made a big deal out...
IBM to track mainframe power use
News As part of Project Big Green, IBM has invented an application for tracking the energy consumption of z9 mainframes
RE:The problem with PageRank (and one alternative)
Blog Comment i have seen changes in the new PR updates and can say that by the end of the month ishall have updated full ( i hope) i have talked about this here http://www.googlebugs.com. i have seen my results...
Software patents are used to enforce monopolies
Talkback "...Microsoft had not given Dell any more information about the issue of patent infringement." Why? Because its all a load of nonsense designed to control purchasing decisions through fear. In the...
F-Secure: User education no security solution
News The threat from malware-infected websites means education in safe computing is not a panacea for security issues, says Patrik Runald
Tax change threatens UK tech entrepreneurs
News The abolition of taper relief on capital gains tax, announced by Alistair Darling on Tuesday, will penalise those who set up tech companies
It's not what you know...
Blog An unusually quiet morning in BitSmith towers is rudely interrupted by a summons to the top floor. A prestigious private school has just been on the phone. Their Internet connection is dead, and...
Transparent fingers of fun
Blog Neat idea: make PDAs transparent so you can put the touch screen on the back side, and still see where your fingers are to select stuff. That leaves the front side able to display everything, means...
Dell: Microsoft warnings haven't hurt Linux uptake
News The PC manufacturer says that Microsoft's patent-infringement claims have not affected sales of its Linux servers
Microsoft's post-Gates plan
Video Chief executive Steve Ballmer talks about sharing the leadership role with top executives
The answer is in the detail
Talkback Good point. Google has laid out a very detailed specification of their, very specific, idea which you can see in the patent (linked in the original story). It does not cover the general principle...
Chinese walls versus Security
Talkback The idea that everything is interconnected, and relies on such to work, therefor reinforcing the original rule, is quite an interesting premise, to say the least. I wonder how organisations trusted...
Eagle Down
Talkback This is about illegal state aid where government preferences a platform that people /must/ use (and it does it repeatedly and systematically maybe even without realising it) they are distorting the...
Sun embraces eco-technology
Video The company gives an insight into its green strategies and technology, and how eco-friendly practices are leading to cost savings
Lenovo ThinkCentre A61e
Review Businesses interested in cutting the power bills generated by their desktop PCs will be interested in Lenovo's ThinkCentre A61e. However, home office workers should avoid this system as it is short...
Taking power out of developers’ hands?
Blog This morning I’ve heard about yet another: “giving power to business users rather than developers,” story. While I can see the benefits of involving the business function in an ever more tightly...
Old Idea so where is the patentability?
Talkback This idea was used in Disaster Recovery scenarios in the UK in the 80's so allowing for the 20 year gap how has this sudden;y become a patentable new idea?
Watchdog warns SMEs over data protection
News The information commissioner has said lack of knowledge among SMEs of their data-protection obligations is a cause for 'considerable concern'
Desktop users still greatest security threat
News A survey by Sophos reveals businesses still consider desktop users the biggest threat to network security but mobile employees are gaining ground
