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Blog Comment This is a VERY different deal to what Novel did, and is a total kick in the teeth for them. RedHat have actually given away nothing, and made no compromises. No patent deal, no NDAs. This could get...
Nuclear weapons lab loses 67 computers
News The US Energy Department has rebuked the Los Alamos nuclear lab for treating missing computers as a property-management issue and not a cybersecurity risk, internal documents show
Panasonic has 1p integration error
Blog Oh dear, I have to report a bit of a goof here. Not by me, I hasten to add, but by those awfully nice Panasonic people. The problem for Panasonic was that, according to the ZDNet UK news blog on...
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
Blog Just seen a release come in from Red Hat promising to play nicely with Microsoft over their competing virtualisation approaches. It smacks slightly of the kind of release you'd expect from the...
Nokia slides out E75 and E55 smartphones
Photo A look at two new E-series smartphones, both with slide-out keyboard, introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News Mozilla's Developer Tools Lab has released its first prototype — a web-based, collaborative code-editing framework called Bespin
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
News The company has also announced a mobile-application marketplace and an online back-up and management service, and said that handsets using its OS are now to be known as 'Windows phones'
Symbian Foundation signs up more supporters
News The not-for-profit organisation has added a further 14 voices of support, including Bank of America, HP, MySpace, Qualcomm and SanDisc
HTC adds two Touch smartphones
Photo The handset maker has released two new models to refresh its touchscreen smartphone line, both set to arrive by summer this year
Apple: iPhone jailbreaking violates our copyright
News Apple has laid out what is believed to be its first legal argument against the practice of jailbreaking an iPhone in response to an EFF petition before the US Copyright Office
Did Chinese install spyware on Indian government computers?
Blog Sources inside India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) have confirmed to the media that "several" of its 600 computers have been infected by spyware. The spyware is said to affect computers...
RE:Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment @JGFuller- I downloaded the win7 beta, and installed on a spare computer. Could not find my nic card, or my SB audio card. Plus on every re-boot it would lose the video card driver, leaving me with...
Pirate Bay trial to begin in Sweden
News The four men behind the popular file-sharing site are accused of helping millions of internet users to illegally download protected movies, music and computer games
Nasa hacker to wait longer for prosecution decision
Blog The Crown Prosecution Service has said that self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon will have to wait to find out whether he will be prosecuted in the UK. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)...
Nokia announces Ovi application store
News The mobile-phone maker has joined Apple and other smartphone makers in launching a new marketplace for mobile-phone applications, but Nokia says its store is different
Microsoft Exchange Patch
Talkback MS09-003 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution ) should also be looked at carefully. Microsoft Exchange handles sensitive and mission critical e-mail...
Debian 'Lenny' released
News The latest version of the Linux distro is more suitable for enterprise use, according to open-source services provider Sirius Corporation
ARM shows off 32nm mobile processor
News ARM's 32nm processors displayed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona promise cheaper, more powerful smartphones
Memories are made by tech
Video People are now able to make, store and share a digital record of their daily lives. Web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall talks about the consequences and uses of having every detail to hand
LogMeIn adds Android remote support
Blog LogMeIn, a company that specialises in remote support technology, is currently demonstrating its support for the Android platform at Mobile World Congress. Rescue+Mobile for Android allows IT...
Digital asset management - guts versus gloss
Blog Starting the week off with a whole load of tech news to digest, I was tempted (for no good reason) to let rip on the digital asset management industry this morning and voice my own loudly vented...
Sony Ericsson pins hopes on 'entertainment' strategy
Analysis Sony Ericsson is building a new strategy around entertainment that will allow users to share content across multiple platforms
LG devices to use Intel Moorestown processor
News Intel and LG will team up to build the first mobile internet devices using the new Intel chip
Wallace and Gromit say patents are fun kids!
Blog It seems that Oscar winning animation duo Wallace and Gromit have teamed up against their latest foe. This time its not an evil Were-rabbit or a scheming Penguin but shock! Horror! that terrible...
Ofcom may free up more room for mobile broadband
News The telecoms regulator is consulting on proposals to free up a chunk of spectrum to give a further boost to mobile-broadband services in the UK
Freescale adds Android, Xandros netbook support
News The chip manufacturer says ARM-based architecture could eventually seize up to half of the netbook market from its x86-based rival
Dialogue Box 5.8: Return of the Axis of Awesome
Video What do a netbook, an ultraportable, a smartphone, a pico projector and a weird videophone have in common? All have been examined by Dialogue Box and consigned to their places on the Axis Of Awesome
Sony Ericsson rethinks, remodels
Blog Monday morning in Barcelona. The skies are blue, the mobile industry jargon impenetrable as always. My thoughts turn to last night's Sony Ericsson event, partially for the mild cava hangover, and...
Gartner predicts virtualisation boom for 2009
News The analyst house says businesses will increasingly turn to the technology for its potential to reduce costs and use computing resources more efficiently
Google edges closer to Chrome release for Mac
News Programmers for the company have posted a screenshot which, although it shows Chrome failing to properly show a web page on Mac OS X, reveals a major step in the functional direction
RE:Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment @JGFuller - Yes, I can imagine that an ordinary Windows user, or any other kind of user, would be intimidated by situations such as I described. But I wouldn't expect them to need or want to do...
RE:Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment I've just shunted my Windows 7 install onto another machine, and installed Ubuntu 64 on my old acer ferrari test machine. Surprisingly (to me) the audio worked straight away as it would with vista...
