Previous DayLaunching the Byte Night blog
Blog Most of you will probably be aware of the annual Byte Night "sleep out" and this year it's easier than ever to keep up with the news. As well as this blog, we've got a great new web site where...
This is not the same as the "Media Player minus" fiasco
Talkback Hi, This isn't the same as the Media-Player-minus version of Windows. In that case M$ offered a version with and a version without Media Player in the EU; a version I never saw on the shelves of my...
IBM probe detects an atom's charge
Photo Researchers have come up with a probe that can tell whether a gold atom has a positive, negative or neutral charge, which could lead to new computing devices
HTML 5 may not be finalised before 2022
Blog The next version of the HTML web programming standard is unlikely to be finalised until 2022, according to a source within the web standards community. "The current best estimate for final...
Safari 4: a first look
Preview Apple's Safari 4 came out of beta at the recent WWDC, and has been a very popular download for the past week. Here's why.
Banking the Unbanked African: The Disconnections
Blog Mina, a Ghanaian Lady that I met on my recent trip from Accra, the capital city of Ghana to Aflao, the border town with Republic of Togo, was travelling to conduct withdrawal transactions with her...
Nasa hacker petition tops 4,000
Blog Over 4,000 people have now signed a petition that people with Asperger's Syndrome should not be extradited, directed at the Prime Minister's Office. The petition directly refers to Gary...
o2/iphone: £15 tethering should have covered EU-it would hav...
Talkback O2 should have trumped the competition with 'marketing'. A £15 tethering option could have been sold as 3GB Data usable across the EU. Most customers wouldn't have used/needed this except for...
Exchange 2010 beta: a first look
Preview Not so much a radical new product as a more polished version of Exchange 2007, the 2010 server release, due later this year, could be the upgrade customers have been waiting for.
Virgin considering filesharer suspensions
Blog Virgin Media could start suspending persistent filesharers on a temporary basis, using information provided to it by the Universal record company. The ISP announced on Monday that it would,...
Exchange 2010 beta: screenshots II
Photo Many of the enhancements in Exchange 2010, now in public beta, are under the surface. Here are some of the more visible ones.
Nokia shows off E72 business smartphone
Photo The successor to the popular E72 has faster 3G connectivity, a better camera, a standard headphone jack and an optical navigation key
New Linux kernel adds file-system support
News Linux 2.6.30 has been released with support for new file systems, alongside performance improvements and new hardware drivers
RE:Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog Comment Re: Browser domination, perhap's ive missed something but.. If Windows is to be supplied without IE, how is it that users obtain any browser, i.e. Chrome, Firefox, Safari if they have no means to...
Adobe launches competitor to Google Docs
News Acrobat.com, an online collaboration tool designed to rival Google Docs, provides meetings and PDF creation at different levels of pricing
Head in the Data Cloud Pt.II
Blog A while back, I looked at the lie of the land for setting up a way of working seamlessly between two laptops running Ubuntu linux. Originally I was going to use grsync to backup all my...
Opera: Microsoft's browser move not enough
News The software maker's move to strip IE from Windows 7 in Europe will not restore competition in the browser market, says Opera chief technology officer Håkon Wium Lie
Business intelligence defies economic gloom
News Analyst house Gartner says worldwide revenue for technology related to BI, analytics applications and performance management grew by 22 percent last year
Dialogue Box 6.8: Top tech trumps
Video What are likely to be the most important tech stories over the next few months? Rupert and Charles discuss the contenders over a game of (special) cards
Fedora 11 - A Quirk in Installation
Blog I'm in the process of installing Fedora 11 on my various computers. So far the installation is going pretty smoothly, once I got over the first hurdle - filesystem layout. What they have done...
RE:What Open Source shares with Science
Blog Comment Great article, but I wanted to point at some historical facts that differ a bit. 1. Science is not unique for the Greek states. It has being developed long before that and later in parallel, all...
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog You've probably caught up with the news that Microsoft is going to offer a version of Windows to the European market, without Internet Explorer pre-installed. This seems to be a ploy that isn't...
