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Talkback Bristol Clueless Council? Most of the difference was made up of costs attributed to "decision making" and "project management", I read that as we spent most of the money on lunches, to decide...
Microsoft struggles to push out IE7
News Browser update is being tagged 'high priority', but the company is taking longer than expected to distribute it
Passport chief comments on ID Card security
Blog James Hall, the new CEO of the UK Identity and Passport service, has just said in a web chat that the National Identity Register will be part of the national critical infrastructure and be...
Dynamic spectrum access could revolutionise comms
News Ofcom believes DSA and intelligent roaming could generate billions for the UK economy
Whiteboard: VoIP is ready for prime time
Video Madhu Yarlagadda from Yahoo explains the reliability issues that have prevented VoIP from taking off
Microsoft forms council for software interoperability
News Bob Muglia says that Microsoft wants to get the industry working together with launch of the Interop Vendor Alliance
Daily tasks that keep your network secure
Feature Hackers don't stick to office hours, but there are certain measures you can take to protect your network around the clock
Don't rush into quad core
Leader With the launch of its quad-core processors, Intel had grabbed the lead from AMD, but is it too soon to take advantage of it?
Microsoft offers prank Blue Screen Of Death
News Spoof screensaver is now available from Microsoft itself, but antivirus vendors aren't amused
Namibia can serve their entire school system with Linux
Talkback Namibia was able to service their entire school system with linux on desktop. Why cannot a 1st world country with more money and resource not do it? I think this smacks of poor planning and even...
Ofcom may allow 3G over 2G
News After Nokia shows it can be done, Ofcom may allow operators to reuse their 2G networks to offer improved 3G services
Video: Microsoft's Ozzie on the challenges of the web era
Video At San Francisco's Web 2.0 Summit, Ray Ozzie discusses how the company is geared towards releasing software that has the web in mind
This isn't just RFID.....
Blog Marks and Spencer is pushing on with the rollout of RFID tagging. It confirmed on Tuesday that it will start using RFID tags in another 80 UK stores from next spring, having run trials in 42...
Whiteboard: Calculating ROI
Video Learn what ROI is, when to use it and how to calculate it
Our first three MacBook winners
Blog You have probably seen the ads for the IT Manager Pro Challenge peppered around ZDNet UK in which we're giving away (among other prizes) five Apple Core 2 Duo MacBooks. We now have our first three...
Gary Clark, VP of EMEA, SafeNet
Talkback Once again, a laptop containing confidential consumer data is stolen, and the need for stricter security for mobile devices is highlighted once more. 'Random thefts' or loss of laptops and other...
Free broadband causes satisfaction free-fall
News Carphone Warehouse and Orange come bottom of the league for broadband customer satisfaction, as phone customers also become 'bundle victims'
Incompetence
Talkback "1,500 was the original plan. It was a figure plucked from the air at the time" This project was doomed from the start. No competent manager would ever 'pluck figures from the air'. They should...
AMD climbs supercomputing league table
News Latest list of the top 500 supercomputers shows Intel slipping, but its new 'Woodcrest' chip is starting to make an impression
AMD ditches low-cost PC
News Attempt to provide the developing world with a cheap computer flopped due to lack of interest
Biometrics - the broader issue
Talkback Centralised databases of Biometrics will degrade our security. There have recently been cases of tax fraud deriving from mass theft of civil servants' personal details from government computers :...
Quad Core at the Particle of the Month Club
Blog If this is Tuesday, it must be Switzerland. More specifically, I'm at CERN where Intel wants to tell a large gaggle of Emeahacks about quad-core processing. I'm really here for the high energy...
Microsoft: Gmail is a virus
News Mistake comes as Microsoft tries to build a reputation as a security provider
A functional computer illiteracy?
Talkback It looks like they have not done a proper evaluation. E.g. it says "There were a range of problems with the open-source implementation ... including desktop interfaces and lack of support for...
Intel quad-core chips launched
News The Xeon 5300 and Core 2 Extreme processors give Intel a much-needed win over AMD
Opera all the way...
Talkback I've been using Opera for 3 months now and I can't understand why anyone would use anything else. It's simply amazing!
Benchmarks: the unofficial eight-core Mac Pro
Tech Guide Unless you normally work on high-end workstations, perform massively multitasking workloads or just want the bragging rights, eight cores is definitely overkill -- at least for now.
Open source project aims to map the world
News Citizen cartographers are collecting data without the restrictions imposed by commercial mapping services
Open Source is not about organizational cost
Talkback Open Source is not about reducing cost of any specific organization. It is about social cost. In the utopia that every software is open source, we do not "reinvent the wheel" by coding something...
