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Talkback Which one of our mobile operators will be first to realise the opportunity in front of them to really compete and beat fixed line broadband services. I am sure that the majority of users would be...
The GPL keeps the bastards honest
Talkback pjc158 states: "Do you think they will stop there, not likely they have share holders and those share holders want dividends." Red Hat can grow as much as they are able to and as much as the...
RE:Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Nice comments on DSL, Puppy Linux and TinyMe. I have an old laptop (Compaq Evo N620c) that exhibits the same 'shutdown' problem that you experienced with PCLOS and some of its derivatives. Only...
Open source router firm apologises to Nortel
Blog It's a joke, and it's in poor taste, if you're a Nortel employee, but you have to admire open source router company Vyatta's readiness to take the responsibility (and the free publicity). "We...
MP calls for justice for Nasa hacker
Video Gary McKinnon should be tried in the UK, according to shadow justice minister David Burrowes, who tells ZDNet UK why he believes the 'plight of Gary' to be 'an example of injustice'
Virus causes Ministry of Defence outages
News The MoD administrative system has been hit with a virus that has infected systems including those on the Ark Royal
Not all valid arguments
Talkback Being a Mac Fan as well as a Windows fan, I feel one should differentiate netween the Macs failings anf that of other parties. The Printer issue is probably down to HP, as they write the drivers,...
Vodafone trials hit 16Mbps
News The world's largest mobile operator has announced success in its trials of 16Mbps HSPA+ technology, and will now aim for 21Mbps in further trials
Intel's convertible Classmate in action
Photo A look at Intel's low-cost, tablet-format netbook, with Ubuntu and other technology designed to go with it, at the Bett show in London
Everything needs permission...
Blog I have been hard at work on a Joomla! site, and was stumped for a while about why an image wasn't showing up. I copied it backwards and forwards, made sure I had the right folder, swore at the...
HP extends physical and virtual systems management
News New add-on software applications expand capabilities of the company's software for managing physical and virtual environments
Maybe they did
Talkback It's entirely likely that this prosecution is the result of refusal to cooperate in exactly this way. Of course that offer couldn't be made public without inviting a lot more attempts. As for...
Sweden pushes ahead with 4G network
News The mobile operator TeliaSonera has signed up Ericsson and Huawei to build its LTE network, saying it intends to get one of the first such 4G networks up and running in 2010
Muglia on the cloud, Azure and the economy
Q&A Microsoft server and tools boss Bob Muglia, who was recently named a divisional president, talks about the company's plans for its new Windows Azure platform and how the economy has affected growth
Three SMALL Linux Distributions
Blog The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are...
Nasa hacker appeals to Bush for pardon
News Gary McKinnon has appealed to the out-going president to grant McKinnon a pardon for accessing US military systems
Nasa hacker legal team awaits prosecution decision
Video Karen Todner, the solicitor for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, talks to ZDNet UK about McKinnon's prospects of avoiding extradition to the US by confessing to UK computer crimes
Sony Ericsson wants, can't have, PSP phone
Blog Hot on the heels of Sony Ericsson's worrying results (further and further into the red we go) comes a rumour that the phone manufacturer approached one of its joint-venture daddies, Sony, to ask if...
Gartner: 2009 a 'deciding year' for Sony Ericsson
News Sony Ericsson's worsening losses make 2009 a make-or-break year for the company, say analysts
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Mini UI 3520
Blog Fujitsu Siemens' first netbook has the rather ungainly title of the Amilo Mini UI 3520. I can't say it trips off the tongue very easily, and market share in this rather full area of computing could...
MoD IT project late, over budget, failing to impress
News The £7bn Defence Information Infrastructure project is 18 months late, at least £182m over budget and has left many users underwhelmed
Long contracts prioritised over pay packet
News Contractors say length of contract is the most important factor for them in the current economic climate, with a substantial pay packet the second priority
Google Apps admins get greater password control
News The premier edition of Google Apps will offer administrators the ability to set a minimum password length and monitor the strength of user passwords over time
RE:Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog Comment To quote from Conz' link; "The UK government's ICT agency, British Educational Communications and Technology Association, suggested that schools could slash their total computer costs by up to 50...
Google kills off Jaiku, Dodgeball, other projects
News The search giant has made a series of announcements that signal it is winding down or terminating six of its online products
Blunkett challenges IT education 'stranglehold'
News The former education secretary told the Bett exhibition that the government needs to examine procurement processes so innovative suppliers stand a chance of winning contracts
RE:Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog Comment I think it is obvious that a lot of the reluctance to switch to Open Source systems is the typical "cover your rear end" syndrome. If you switch, and things don't work out for ANY reason, you may...
Google Chrome 2.0 pre-beta: a first look
Preview Version 2.0 of Google's Chrome browser is now available in pre-beta form. Check out some of the key new features.
Adobe clouds billow around a ‘sandbox in the sky’
Blog Where would we have been in 2008 without cloud computing to throw our ‘ah-hem’ erudite opinions at? A long way from proven in certain spheres of the enterprise computing environment, there were...
