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Archive - 15 Oct 2007

RE:Dell still gets thumbs up

Blog Comment In the example you show the Dell has a superior processor - probably a faster hard drive (you've not quoted the speed of the compaq HDD). But I don't work for Dell and I'm not here to defend them....

Greenpeace says iPhone ain't green

Blog Yep - we missed a trick. While we, and everyone else in the tech press, was busy pulling apart the iPhone to see what made it tick - we didn't actuall y stop to think about whether Steve Jobs had...

Dialogue Box 2.2: Wireless networking hits the buffers

Video Dialogue Box's resident buffers check how much of 802.11n's hype is reality — and how much just irradiated hot air

Nasa hacker granted Lords appeal

Roundup Gary McKinnon, the Briton whom US authorities wish to extradite on charges of hacking into Nasa's computer systems, has been given leave to appeal to the House of Lords

iWork '08

Member Review This suite of applications is the latest version of Apple's Office suite, which on the contrary does not have an equivalent to Entourage as it has Mail, but a new application called "Numbers"...

RE:Dell runs out of...glass?

Blog Comment I got a mail from Dell regarding this post: ================================= Hi David I saw your article on the glass shortages that Dell is currently experiencing and I wanted to highlight our...

This is beyond pointless

Talkback This is beyond pointless - who decided that this study was worth spending money on - this is nothing but baseless techno-fear - the government may as well spend the money setting up The Men in...

Yahoo India hosts mashup event

Photo Two hundred developers converged on the online portal's Indian headquarters to create mashups based around Flickr and other applications

Merging technologies

Forum Do you think Apple, Microsoft and Linux should combine all their efforts and technologies?

Dell optimistic about Vista uptake

News Despite research that found Vista uptake among businesses is slowing, Michael Dell has predicted that most companies will migrate to the OS within two years

MPs attack IT 'mess' at Asset Recovery Agency

News A failure to invest in IT handicapped the agency responsible for recouping the proceeds of crime, according to a parliamentary committee

CRT monitors given a second life in Africa

Video Edwin Martins from Computers for Schools Kenya explains how the IT charity is turning donated CRT monitors from UK organisations into televisions

MP launches further-education tech forum

News A national network is to be developed as part of a £3.9m initiative to spur the successful provision of IT for students in further education

RE:Dell still gets thumbs up

Blog Comment i would seriously question the state of your mental health. Anyone who has ever seen the inside of a dell machine would first note the inferrior components used. I have also seen three identical...

London Olympics to develop local tech talent

News As part of the Games' regeneration theme, official tech supplier Atos Origin aims to let local people hone their IT skills as volunteers

Mobile check-in set to go global by 2010

News The International Air Transport Association has announced a new standard for check-in with mobile phones using 2D barcodes

Borderware Mxtreme

Forum Anyone have any idea on how to use this firewall for optimal performance against spam messages. We have implemented multiple Pattern filters and IP blocks but still seem to either run into issues...

Oracle to push out 51 patches

News The database company plans to offer fixes for multiple vulnerabilities, some of which are susceptible to remote exploitation without authentication

Buyout could benefit both BEA and Oracle

Analysis The proposed takeover could resolve questions over BEA's future growth, while consolidating Oracle's status as a software powerhouse

Nanoethics

Review In the technology world, it's rare for people to predict the potential impact of their work in detail, as they do in this book. You may think the future projected here sounds more like science...

ZDNet.co.uk - The Tabloid You Can Trust

Blog Browsing through Viviane Reding's recent speech to the European Regulators Group (as you do), I came across this little nugget: "For many, a symbol for the single market for telecoms is the...

Can green IT be profitable for Dell?

Video Chief executive Michael Dell talks to analysts about the company's vision for green IT, including his plan to build more energy-efficient desktop and server products

Government to study Wi-Fi health risks

News Following last year's schools scare, the Health Protection Agency is to research the potential health effects of Wi-Fi energy emissions

Dialogue Box: Lifting technology's skirt

Roundup ZDNet.co.uk's weekly video magazine programme looks at new developments in tech from every perspective but the conventional ones

Software patent again?

Talkback I did this sort of thing on TI 900 and 9000 series. The old LSI Octopus, the Dec PDP 11. It is what programmers do.

IT industry urged to help hit carbon targets

News With impending limits on CO2 emissions affecting all UK businesses, the IT industry has been called upon to help companies meet their carbon quota

The Great Domain Runs

Blog Unapologetic plundering of other people's blogs to start the week, because if you don't live in a world dominated by search engine heuristics and online advertising revenues you probably don't read...

Hitachi claims hard-drive breakthrough

News The company's giant magnetoresistive head will have a perpendicular current and means drive makers will be able to come out with 4TB drives by 2011

The real story behind this

Talkback This is mainly for those who think this guy should be written off just because he's a felon. You need to remember that he wasn't convicted for doing actual harm. It's not like he broke into a DVD...