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Blog If you separate your coding names using an underscore rather than a dash (eg class_name as opposed to class-name), most text editors will treat the underscore as part of one word, and thus makes it...
Whole House Audio system: version 1 is complete
Blog Over a year after it began, the whole-house-audio project is complete. 4 rooms around the house can now be filled with the sound of any of (currently) 4 audio devices thanks to a mixture of...
Service reliability? Sounds like spin.
Talkback Trouble with Microsofts update service is the stuff that comes from it rather than its reliability. Everyone with zone alarm got kicked off the net a few days ago after one of their 'ultra...
RE:Are we going to see a Googlephone after all?
Blog Comment The trouble with entering a crowded market is that you have to bring something new to the table! I can't envision that Google would revolutionise mobile communication but I look forward to seeing...
openSuSE stumbles, Ubuntu shines
Blog I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. It's an AMD Turion 64-based system, and of course it seemed to load just fine. However, for some reason, it...
Google wants businesses to have faith in the cloud
Analysis By introducing more service-level agreements and monitoring tools, Google could persuade companies to entrust their business to the cloud
Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters
News The package managers used by most BSD and Linux systems could be exploited to install compromised software on target systems, claims a report
I for one welcome our new overlor... oh, hold on, that's me
Blog Bit of a change of plan here at Goodwins Central. After getting on for more than a decade and a half doing basically the same job of technology editor – albeit for four different publications and...
Ten technologies cybercrooks love to exploit
Feature With so many avenues for attackers to exploit, it's tempting to disconnect from the global network, erase our presences from the web and hide in our rooms, but constant vigilance may be the answer
Mystery surrounds wiped Oyster cards
News Transport for London has launched an investigation into how 60,000 smartcards were corrupted when swiped at ticket barriers on the Underground on Saturday morning
BT upgrades its Home Hub routers
News The telecommunications and IT firm has made its new routers compatible with the Draft 2.0 specification for 802.11n Wi-Fi, while beefing up the devices' default security protocol
Crackers claim iPhone 3G hack
News The iPhone Dev Team claims to have jailbroken the iPhone 3G, while a former member of the team claims the device has not been unlocked
HTC Touch Diamond
Review HTC's Touch Diamond crams a multitude of features into a compact and stylish device, topped off by a flashy user interface. However, the TouchFLO 3D interface has too many rough edges and the...
Developers respond to KDE 4 backlash
News Continued criticism of KDE 4.0 has prompted key developers of the open-source desktop environment to justify their handling of the transition from KDE 3
RE:3G iPhone - the long wait is over. Or is it?
Blog Comment I got mine today from an O2 store in the City. I'm a long-standing business customer and all I really wanted to do was order one on the website. HA! Nothing worked - it was all rubbish. I dropped...
Ten keyboard shortcuts to improve Linux
Feature A few simple shortcuts can make your work in Linux far more efficient. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen runs through 10 of his favourites, for desktop environments and window managers
Yahoo rejects 'absurd' Microsoft-Icahn buyout offer
News The internet giant has rejected an offer from Microsoft and Carl Icahn that would see Yahoo sell only its search business
Are we going to see a Googlephone after all?
Blog There we were, thinking the development of Android effectively killed off the rumours of the "Gphone", Google's own-branded handset. But back the rumours come, courtesy of some off-hand comments...
Microsoft beats Apple, Ubuntu in service reliability
News During the second quarter of 2008, Windows Update was always available, Apple's was not far behind, and Canonical's Ubuntu lagged by comparison
Google, Viacom clash over employee records
News Viacom wants to know whether YouTube employees watched or uploaded copyrighted clips. The data could prove key to its lawsuit
Customers to devise killer-gadgets of the future
News A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that within five years, 'prosumers' will be feeding their ideas straight onto company production lines
Union urges caution over gov't outsourcing plans
News The Public and Commercial Services Union claims a recent government pledge to outsource more IT contracts ignores a history of blown budgets and missed deadlines
BA launches frequent-flyer app for iPhone 3G
News Customers can use the app to view the British Airways titmetable, get real-time travel arrival and departure information and book flights using their Apple handset
I want my Enterprise 2.0
Blog It's taken a while, but I'm beginning to get the hang of Enterprise 2.0. The job's not made any easier by the usual parlously low signal to noise ratio; as with any fashionable, badly-defined idea...
Skype 4.0 Beta Updated
Blog Skype has released an updated 4.0 Beta. After having said so many times "we are listening", and "keep the comments coming", what did they change in the overwhelmingly despised new user interface?...
