Previous Day.pro has a nice ring to it!
Talkback But sadly thats all there is to it, unless the holder is using it to prove their credentials, i don't see much value in a .pro domain. Infact it might put you at a disadvantage; whenever you give...
depends on the hardware
Talkback I found Kalyway was the easiest way to install from scratch, direct from DVD, and this is on commodity ASRock hardware, with IDE, DDR RAM, AGP and a Core2 Duo (Conroe) (Socket 775) The only...
More professionals to be allowed .pro domains
News RegistryPro, the company that exclusively runs the .pro top-level domain, says it is to widen availability to all accredited professionals
Tomorrow is National Working from Home Day
Blog As a journalist, my heart drops when I start receiving press releases about any sort of "Day". This is because the majority of "Days" are Public Relations (PR) exercises dreamed up by clever PR...
augmented reality
Talkback The application with the car is not developed by Virtual Events but by Total Immersion. It's called augmented reality. For more information visit Touching Media, the dutch partner, at...
Sun demos Java app for next-generation phones
Video Sun engineers explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to mobile phones
ProCurve Switch 2610-24-PWR
Review A feature-packed 10/100Mbps switch with PoE on every port, the 2610-24-PWR is designed to deliver power and network connections to VoIP phones or other PoE devices.
More on mobile Linux smartphones
Blog Following the news that the LiMo Foundation is going to try push mobile Linux into the enterprise zone, more hints have arrived that the technology is not going to stay purely consumer. On the...
New IM Application "Nimbuzz"
Blog As my interest is primarily in video chat / IM programs, I generally don't pay much attention to announcements of products without video. However, the announcement for "Nimbuzz" caught my eye, and...
Red Hat defends UK's open source record
Blog Is the UK really a laggard in open source? Red Hat denies there is any problem. "Red Hat does more business in the UK than in any other European country," Malcolm Herbert, senior manager of...
FBI fears hardware backdoors in US military kit
News Fake Cisco networking equipment could lead to hardware backdoors on military and other systems, as well as increased failure rates, says the FBI
Google opens geographic search interface
News The search giant has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Announcing new members, including Mozilla and Verizon, the LiMo Foundation claims to be in talks with two major enterprise Linux- distribution companies
Google: We Care A Lot... about IPv6
Blog "We care a lot about the health of the Internet", says Google (I'll bet it does! Not much business around for it otherwise...), which is why it's making its search facility available for users of...
I guess I must have been lucky too
Talkback I have a Shuttle computer (2002), very noisy, with an AMD Athlon 2700+ processor. I now only keep and use it as a legacy computer because of the huge amount of structured data on it. The XP...
Most techies would recommend IT career to offspring
News Seventy-five percent would commend an IT career to their children, and most are upbeat about job prospects despite the economic gloom, claims a survey
Quad-core Xeon laptop gets 1.5TB storage
News Eurocom has announced an upgrade of its quad-core Xeon laptop, including an upgradeable motherboard and up to 1.5TB of on-board storage
OpenForum berates UK record on open source
News The UK is lagging in Europe in the use of open source, according to speakers at an open-source conference in London
Windows Small Business Server prices almost double
News When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will rise by up to 80 percent
Tablet trouble
Blog We've had Dell's Latitude XT convertible tablet at ZDNet Towers for a couple of days, and been impressed with its sleek brushed aluminium finish, near-ThinkPad-quality keyboard, integrated HSPDA,...
OLPC meltdown - or, the side-effects of working closely with Nickneg.
Blog Interested in the One Laptop Per Child project? Make a cup of tea, sit down and read this 4500 word impassioned essay from Ivan Krstić, the man who used to be in charge of the security side of...
New ooVoo Release (1.6)
Blog A new release of ooVoo for Windows, 1.6.1.7, was made available yesterday. This is the first ooVoo release that is not designated as a "Beta", and it is the beginning of their move to a clearly...
Altruism or Realpolitik?
Talkback Are Microsoft's chickens finally coming home to roost in the education sector or has Becta seen Labour's poll ratings and is manoeuvring to make themselves relevant to a future Conservative...
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News Microsoft has helped develop an audio file format called Daisy that translates Word files into a 'talking' digital book format, making documents more accessible for users with impaired vision
Google maps out plan for mobile success
News The search giant is focusing its energies on the development of web-based applications, super-fast search and location-based services
Thankfully, it worked for me
Talkback I installed XP SP3 on my Lifebook S2110, which has an AMD Turion 64 CPU, with no problems. Whew. After what I have been through with Vista on the Lifebook S6510 (and the S2110, for that matter,...
UK urged to give up low-cost software market
News Key industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche
Running Mac OS X on standard PCs
Tech Guide Apple's operating system is officially available only for Mac hardware. However, it's possible, if legally questionable, to run Mac OS X Leopard on standard PCs.
A wider meaning for cross platform development?
Blog With Sun pushing JavaFX Desktop 1.0 out into the Rich Internet Application space last week (and Microsoft’s Silverlight & Adobe’s AIR already out there), the blending of the web with the desktop...
