Previous DayNew MacBooks and MacBook Pros - Beauty inside and out ?
Blog Well that's what Jonny Ive apple's chief designer thinks - they are more beautiful inside than out, and why that may be good for those crazy tear down websites the average mac user probably wont...
What ID Cards
Talkback I am trying to remember when Parliament passed legislation to introduce Identity Cards and authorise such a massive public expenditure that the next government is likely to scrap. While I am in...
Definte improvement
Talkback I tried this out at work today on a rather decrepit machine. General appearance looks smarter, and loading times seem to be significantly better.
Political or Judicial Decision?
Talkback This smacks very much of being a political decision with scant regard to common sense or practical justice. Such decisions as this must NOT be allowed to be made by politicians or civil servants,...
What about Windows Mobile?
Talkback What does this mean for Windows Mobile? I thought we were expecting V7.0 to ship much sooner than these dates? Are they unrelated? IMHO - Microsoft are already losing ground due to the limitations...
Macbooks, iPhones and iPods going WiMax?
Blog According to this here article, Apple has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Telecom to start sticking WiBro (basically the Korean version of WiMax) into iPods and Macbooks. For...
Siemens launches mobile unified-comms suite
News Siemens Enterprise Communications has unveiled a suite of software designed to combine enterprise telephony, video, fixed/mobile convergence and other unified-communications functions
Microsoft launches subscription Office
Blog Microsoft, continuing its fine tradition of making major announcements at the end of the day, has begun selling its "all-in-one security and productivity software subscription service for home...
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog I have just opened and defused an email positively crackling with anger, frustration and hurt. It was followed at speed with eight more, by way of illustration. Having read them all, I second every...
The future of 4G wireless, according to Ericsson
Q&A The next generation of mobile wireless will happen — but what, how and when? Ericsson's UK chief technology officer looks ahead
Microsoft aims to help councils assess business value
News The company has launched the Business Value Framework tool to help local authorities assess the impact of IT on their business
Deloitte loses pension details of Vodafone, rail, police
News A Deloitte laptop that contained pension details of Vodafone, Network Rail and British Transport Police employees, has been stolen
What about the merchant bankers?
Talkback Surely, if this lot have been handing out the reddies, totally unplanned and unaccounted for, we do not have any spare left. We are probably borrowing money to give it to the banks. The obvious...
Information Interoperability
Blog One of the main benefit of the Information Technology is the reduction of the impact of imperfect knowledge in all domains of human activities. From an economic point of view this means reducing...
OpenOffice 3 enhancements: A first look
Photo As OpenOffice.org 3.0 becomes available for download, ZDNet.co.uk takes a look at some of the enhancements to the free office-productivity suite
Green IT still a priority despite credit crunch
News Organisations want to keep the green issue high on the agenda, but only if account is taken of the credit crunch, according to research produced for an upcoming storage show
Microsoft has high hopes for Silverlight's second act
News The software maker has announced Silverlight 2, which includes support for DRM tech, improved cross-platform support and deep-zoom technology
Qt's Oktober Developer Days: first impressions
Blog Munich is the venue for Qt's (the artist formerly known as Trolltech) Developer Days conference this week. Munich, Oktober, Developers, Qt's cross-platform application framework offering, Bier and...
Nasa hacker loses second Home Office appeal
News Gary McKinnon has lost his second Home Office appeal against extradition to the US, where he could stand trial for hacking US military systems, including those of Nasa and the Pentagon
Customer Data Integration - not THAT scarry!
Blog With the speed on-demand solutions appear and gain popularity and compete with the old-school desktop systems, you'd naturally think customer data integration solutions have long become a usual...
Sierra Compass 885 USB Modem
Review This mobile broadband modem is easy to install and manage, and comes with some useful applications. It's an excellent choice for mobile professionals who don't want to be tied to a particular...
RE:Why most business focused social networks are missing their...
Blog Comment Linked'in is worried about spam. Xing is a spam machine. I too had the same experience when people connected on another network claimed that they did not know me!!! Even when I had entered their...
Google, Yahoo in talks with US Justice Dept
News The internet giants are in early-stage negotiations with the US Justice Department to avoid an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement, according to a report in The Wall Street...
RE:Up to 1.7m MoD personal details missing
Blog Comment 60.5 million records lost in December 07? Now a few more million on people who wanted to join the MoD? What's going on? As for the kind of sensitive information that could have been lost,...
Pilots ready to seek legal action over ID cards
News The British Airline Pilots Association union has warned it may seek a judicial review of the government's ID scheme to prevent pilots being forced to carry the cards
Google to appeal after losing German copyright cases
News German courts have ruled in favour of content owners in two separate cases, both involving the display of copyrighted content in thumbnails attached to search results
Tech stocks make a comeback
News Apple and Microsoft were among the companies with double-digit gains on Monday, as the Dow Jones surged back above 9,000 and broke a record doing so
Microsoft to stick with 'Windows 7' name
News General manager Mike Nash has confirmed the next version of Windows will retain its code-name when it is released to the market
OpenOffice.org 3 Released - But Please Be Patient
Blog OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released yesterday (Monday), on schedule. That's the good news. The bad news is, the demand for it has been so massive that their download servers have been swamped! It...
