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Archive - 13 Nov 2007

Google Android 56.7 MB of Pure Mobile Opportunity

Blog Google Android 56.7 MB of Pure Mobile Opportunity By Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com Don’t be the last one to download the Android SDK; for third-party developers this is a chance to...

BBC's poor iPhone coverage

Blog I thought the coverage BBC News gave to the iPhone launch on Friday was really poor. On the evening news they covered the story by concentrating on the fact that the phone is locked to one...

High prices holding back 3G laptops

News Laptops with embedded broadband connectivity need to be made available at lower prices, the GSM Association and Microsoft have argued

Why disappearing ink isn't just for spies

Feature The fact that 21 percent of black-and-white copier documents are returned to the recycling bin on the same day they are produced has inspired some tech companies to investigate alternatives

Microsoft spin-off debuts 'snack-sized' browsing

Photo Zumobi, formerly known as ZenZui, promises to offer a new way of delivering targeted content to mobile-phone users

AMD chief touts virtualisation virtues

Video At Oracle OpenWorld, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz discusses how virtualisation can be of benefit in addressing the challenges of efficient energy and affordable internet access

Securing CRM Future

Talkback It is nice to see that some hosted CRM vendors such as the mentioned Netsuite and Salesboom.com have taken measures to ensure safe and secure data for their clients, if events like the Salesforce...

The flaw in the Google Android plan

Comment Can Google be a partner to mobile-phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos

Satellite 'sentinels' to help fight climate change

News The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security project will monitor different climate elements in Europe from space

Revealed: Tech titans of the past 25 years

Photo A survey organised by industry body CompTIA, which receives financial support from Microsoft, has voted Bill Gates as the most influential person in technology

SOCA's XP hack

Talkback While it may be harder to hack XP with SP2, it is still the easiest OS to break into. Average time to compromise a Windows based system is under 20 minutes, wireless or wired. Neither MAC or Linux...

Fighting CRM Phishing Attacks

Talkback Phishing for user information and passwords of online CRM and ERP applications can be dangerous if not dealt with properly. It is said that experiments show a success rate of over 70% of Phishing...

Google gives glimpse of Android software tools

Photo The company has given a peek at the software development kit for its Android mobile-phone software

Ellison looks back on 30 years of Oracle

Video At Oracle OpenWorld, CEO Larry Ellison dicusses the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database

Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack

News At a Get Safe Online event, Serious Organised Crime Agency officers have demonstrated how easy it is to crack into Microsoft's OS

Government dismisses call to halt e-voting

News A number of proposals made by the Electoral Commission following May's e-voting trials have been rejected by the government

More from Google on Android's 'non-fragmentation agreement'

Blog Just got a quote back from Rich Miner, "Member of Technical Staff, Google", about that non-fragmentation agreement that Google had all the members of the Open Handset Alliance sign to make sure...

CIOs change outsourcing motives

News A survey of UK CIOs has revealed that the leading reasons for IT outsourcing are now responsiveness and flexibility, not cutting costs

Yahoo and uni team up on distributed computing

News The US's Carnegie Mellon University will be involved in a programme to encourage the development of software around distributed computing

Microsoft to offer unbundled hypervisor

News Changing its earlier plans, the company has said customers will be able to buy the virtualisation technology without committing to Windows Server

Microsoft trickles out more Vista SP1 features

News The latest OS's first service pack isn't due until next year, but Microsoft is pushing out elements of the software in ongoing support patches

LogMeIn Pro

Review LogMeIn Pro is a joy to use. It makes remote control simple, robust and intuitive, and everything just works.

IBM's Roadrunner to smash supercomputing records

News The Top500 list of speediest machines is now out, but an upcoming IBM computer will top a quadrillion operations a second — more than double current capabilities

Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility

News As the Open Handset Alliance released the preliminary SDK for the mobile Linux platform, Google revealed that members have signed a 'non-fragmentation agreement'

One-stop shop for open-source support launched

News Software consultancy Credativ has launched an open-source support centre that aims to cover the myriad of community-built applications

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