Previous DayWhiteboard: What is SOA?
Video Service-oriented architecture may be over-hyped, but it does offer lower-cost and easier integration
Go On Admit it...
Talkback You only wrote this article to get away with that headline!
BT lends student software coders a hand
News Last year's winners of the Imagine Cup for software design are getting technical and business training from BT and Microsoft
Your phone's watching you
Blog I have to give it to Cisco. It does find every feasible application under the sun to run on an IP phone. I suppose any application could run on an IP-enabled endpoint, given enough processing power...
Microsoft hires IBM's chief architect
News Ray Ozzie has appointed Donald Ferguson to spearhead platform development at the software giant
Learning to spell
Blog Here at ZD Towers we're used to getting all manner of cocktails of various 'solutions' that the world's IT suppliers think we should write about. But the PR folks at Thus, the telco, were...
Privacy watchdog fear of govt super DB
Talkback Very simply, the privacy expert AND all of us should be much more fearful of the information private companies (insurance, credit, etc) have on us that keep getting stolen week after week because...
At last! The emperor
Talkback Sounds like a long overdue breath of fresh air and good sense. I've noticed that the water available for schoolchildren to drink in schools lacks 126 of the features that are present in Coke and...
Commission extending without remit
Talkback I am of the considered opinion that this is a matter well outside the remit of the European Commission and that the EC should not expend public funds nor employ publicly funded staff interfering in...
PAOGA is ready to go.
Talkback It is interesting that your sub-head in the print version states "Bureaucrats want to share what they think they know about you with each other. That should be our job". The key word in this is...
Google patches XSS security flaw
News The search giant has fixed a second flaw in its software in as many days
Photos: Red Hat Czechs into European development centre
Photo The Linux specialist has become the latest tech firm to set up a facility in the city of Brno
The scramble for online TV
Blog The big buzz surrounding online TV has recently been hovering around The Venice Project, which was today rechristened Joost (as in Joost The Ticket, Joost In Time etc - any other crap puns spring...
IBM centres to spread SOA gospel
News IBM looks to partner with universities, businesses and the community as it opens two SOA centres of excellence in France and Dubai, with plans for four more
The decline and fall of the roaming empires
Leader 3's decision to drop all roaming charges across its networks shows sanity, foresight and common sense. Time for the rest of the industry to follow
RE: iPhone? So what?...
Talkback >>Am I the only person who doesn't care about the iPhone?!? Maybe. >>I think all this talk and coverage of the iPhone is purely due to the reputation of Apple and the success of its iPods. But...
I hope you're right
Talkback I hope you're right (goes ahead and then screws up) and it doesn’t go the other way like the London Ambulance Service scheme a few years ago which was a major success................... Personally...
UK in line for push-to-talk invasion
News Orange may soon find itself with push-to-talk competition from RIM or other technology providers
BETTing on the future for classroom tech
News On the ground at BETT 2007: the must-attend event for anyone involved in IT in education
iPhone? So what?...
Talkback Am I the only person who doesn't care about the iPhone?!? Fair play to Apple for diversifying and moving into this market - it's a big challenge for sure - and good luck to them (all the more if...
Don
Talkback I used to get worked up about stories such as this but then I started to notice a pattern in public sector procurement that gives me some hope: 1) Deal signed with approved services contractor...
Recursive acronym alert
Blog What, I ask, is the point of including an acronym within itself? This is not a new question - GNU means "GNU's Not Unix", after all - but now Symbian's at it. PIPS, we are told, means "PIPS Is...
3 ditches all roaming charges
News Mobile operator removes all extra charges for roaming across its networks, for both voice and data
Government demands Office competition in schools
News Six competing Office packages should be offered in education, says government advisor, in another blow to Microsoft
HTC S620
Review If you primarily want to handle email on the move, this slim BlackBerry-like Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone with Direct Push technology is a good option. It has its quirks, though, and isn't...
HP claims nanowire breakthrough for chips
News Researchers are demonstrating how replacing chip interconnects could open up new frontiers for miniaturisation
Second Life millionaire retracts DMCA claim
News Husband of Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung says it was a mistake to file a DMCA complaint with YouTube over 'offensive' video
'Joost' aims to make the internet more like TV
News Another striking company name from the duo behind Skype and Kazaa
Business software makers go open source
Analysis Analysis: Smaller enterprise software vendors are finding open source can be the best way to compete
Sun partitions, virtualises Solaris
News Latest version of Sun's operating system adds Xen hypervisor and underlying support for Logical Domains
Whiteboard: The real cost of blades
Video Blade servers offer density, flexibility and versatility, and soon they could be affordable
