Previous DayNigeria Telecoms Triple play blues.
Blog In the past few years, “triple play” has probably been the biggest buzz word in telecommunications worldwide,promising as it does to boost revenues and reduce churn by offering an array of voice,...
Breaking the Web
Talkback Hi Karen, Thanks for the heads up. I did have a chance to comment further on the SDK in John Resig's blog; Unbreaking the Web. The issue was IE 8 passing the ACID 2 test, demonstrating surprising...
Keep mobile data from going walkabout
Help/HowTo Mobile email is no longer the preserve of upper management but providing access to company information on the go has its risks
Red Hat Linux 5.2 beta released
News Red Hat has announced new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improved virtualisation and clustering features
Teleworking: Truly green or just naive?
Blog I'm sat in the European Green IT Summit at the Sheraton Hotel in London, listening to a remarkable range of speakers and hearing people sat around me nodding heads in agreement. What has emerged as...
Big Brother...
Talkback ... is getting closer to reality every day. Step by step the government slices off a thin slice of the salami, getting closer to their goal each time - total monitoring of the public. One of the...
O2 Xda Orbit
Review The Xda Orbit 2 combines a strong set of features with good battery life. The HTC TouchFLO system may not suit everyone, but if you disapprove, you can simply ignore it.
Intel to launch high-capacity solid-state drives
News With SSDs of up to 160GB capacity coming out in the second quarter of this year, Intel is set to go head-to-head with manufacturers like Samsung and Toshiba
Where's the evidence?
Talkback Where is the evidence that 60% of the Eees sold this year will ship with Windows XP? The comment from the JP Morgan analyst is disingenuous given that everyone raves about how easy the Linux Eee...
Asus to ship 60 percent of Eee PCs with Windows XP
News The company has said it will now ship almost two-thirds of its low-cost PCs with Microsoft's OS installed, to meet customer demand
The software optimisation misnomer
Blog It’s not difficult (if you go looking) to read lots about software optimisation these days. Vendors in this space will reel off copious (and possibly spurious) reams of information at you to detail...
Microsoft presses on regardless with OOXML SDK
Blog OOXML is in the balance as a formal standard, but that's no reason for Microsoft not to launch tools for the document standard. However, the OOXML kit which is on its way could cause confusion, as...
IT recruiters claim over-reliance on foreign workers
News Recruitment body Atsco says more needs to be done to encourage UK students to consider careers in IT
IT news - the Thursday quirkies
Blog There were over 400 new items in my feed reader this morning. I've now read them all. I feel queasy. But here are the best ones. 1. The number of bits stored on the planet is now greater than...
The Invasion seems to have been cancelled.
Talkback As a Security Specialist working in the UK, I maintain an interest in communication methods etc such as PTT. Recently, I worked with a Client who was not from the Uk. He had successfully deployed...
Mapping prototypes on display at TechFest
Video At Microsoft's event, a mobile device with front-and-back touchscreen sensitivity for better navigation of maps was among the tech on show
IT vendors to profit from stricter green standards
News Tech vendors stand to make billions as companies increasingly need to measure their environmental impact, claims S2 Intelligence
RE:BT, broadband and electromagnetic noise
Blog Comment Hi David... I find "demonstrations" like that to be incredibly frustrating. Basically, they are showing you that there might be a problem, but not only are they not providing you with enough...
YouTube minds the developer gap
News The company has released APIs allowing its content to be embedded into other websites, desktop applications, video games and mobile devices
Be A Superstar With Your PowerPoint Presentation
Blog Days ago I came across a cute idea called “PowerPoint Karaoke” on http://lemill.net/methods/powerpoint-karaoke by Hans Põldoja. It introduced a method that can be used in presentation trainings...
