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Archive - 14 Apr 2009

RE:Canonical hits back at Microsoft in netbook spat

Blog Comment It's interesting how LeBlanc casually slips in one little twist which completely changes the basis of a point. I think that he is probably right in saying that a large percentage of the Linux...

RE:Whose law is it anyway?

Blog Comment How true! What a good article! Now you know the sort of run-around HMG and regulators,have been giving anti-DPI campaigners, trying to get something done about the Phorm DPI technology that is...

RE:The downturn - good for open source, not so good for coders

Blog Comment I think this is a really thought provoking comment Jonathan. One would like to think that out of work open source coders and not quite in work yet hobbyist developers alike might want to work on...

Canonical hits back at Microsoft in netbook spat

Blog Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts. On 3 April, Brandon...

Whose law is it anyway?

Blog I returned to work today after a two-week vacation (lovely, thanks), only to find the European Commission had finally kicked off formal proceedings against the UK government over the BT/Phorm...

EC acts against UK over data protection

News In the wake of BT's secret trials of Phorm's ad-serving technology, the European Commission has formally called on the UK to toughen up and enforce its data-protection laws

Citrix aims to ease servers' Web 2.0 workload

News The company will add a push feature to its NetScaler web appliances to relieve the load on datacentres of dealing with rich internet applications

The downturn - good for open source, not so good for coders

Blog There doesn't seem to be any doubt that we're still not past the worst of the economic downturn. There are tech companies announcing job cuts everywhere. Some industry commentators have already...

EMC's V-Max builds up to petabytes of virtual storage

News A new storage architecture lets V-Max arrays be linked together in a physical and virtual matrix to provide a pool of up to three petabytes of data storage

Dell Adamo

Review Dell's high-end Adamo is a 13in. notebook for those who value design and finish as much as performance, but its luxury price will limit the potential audience.

Twitter fends off weekend worm attacks

News Security experts have warned users to be careful who they follow on Twitter, after worm attacks left some with infected profiles

eBay sells StumbleUpon back to founders

Blog eBay has returned the website recommendation engine StumbleUpon to its founders, according to reports. StumbleUpon is a service that allows users to recommend sites to others in the community....

Conficker malware poses as antivirus software

News In addition to dropping a mystery payload on infected machines, the Conficker worm installs software that tries to dupe people into paying nearly £35 for fake antivirus software

Blogger seeks credit for Amazon 'adult' book furore

News While Amazon says an internal error led to the delisting of gay and lesbian books, a blogger claims he caused it as a form of protest

Google makes its update software open source

News By releasing the Google Update software as open-source software, Google hopes to allay concerns about what the program is doing when it phones home

Microsoft to start pushing IE8 browser

News The software maker says those who are running older versions of IE and have Windows's automatic-update feature turned on will start getting the browser update next week

RE:Where does the Sun-IBM deal failure leave Sun?

Blog Comment Apple or Cisco should consider buying Sun as their businesses complement each others. Sun's middle management to leadership team should be replaced by Apple or Cisco's competent teams (whoever is...

Give Your Windows Computer a Career

Blog I've discovered an easy way to keep a P4 computer busy for a Looooonnnngggg time. Do a FULL Scan in Windows Defender. I admit that my system is not typical. It has 1.6 TB of used drive space on 6...

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