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Blog Comment Sweet Lord, are you kidding me? Its hard enough to get people to install Skype which theyve heard about, now we have to switch to another platform. I like identi.ca because its streamlined and...
Microsoft licensing switch pleases Becta
News The government body that oversees schools' IT has welcomed Microsoft's interoperability intentions, but some members of the open-source community say the software giant is trying to lock schools...
EU seeks overhaul of global IT trade pact
News The European Commission claims the Information Technology Agreement, which eliminates international trade tariffs for IT-related products, needs major modernisation
BT to offer inter-company TelePresence
News The IT and communications giant will extend its TelePresence offering to allow customers to use the expensive videoconferencing technology outside their own organisations
Cray turns to Windows for new supercomputer line
News The high-end computing specialist has announced it will use Microsoft's Windows HPC Server in a line of products aimed at universities, laboratories and departments within big businesses
Mac OS 10.5.5 packs plethora of security fixes
News The new version of the OS patches almost three dozen software flaws, addressing both specific Apple features and open-source projects
Orange bundles mobile broadband, laptops for SMEs
News The company has launched a range of new mobile-broadband packages, offering SMEs a free HP laptop with their connectivity
Microsoft makes me cry
Blog Microsoft and a partner are launching an interesting new device. That's cool. The launch is on a webcast. That's cooler. Normally, you click on a webcast and watch it. You know, like...
UK gov't rubber-stamps Phorm technology
News In a response to EC queries regarding the ad-serving technology, the government has given its approval for future use but has not addressed questions over the legality of previous BT Phorm trials
You're invited: Breakfast briefing on virtualisation
Blog As promised, ZDNet UK is hosting a get-together where we give you a chance to meet industry experts and get their views on an IT issue of the day. We're inviting folks to come along to a breakfast...
Geany & Sweep
Blog No, not a new children's TV programme. Geany is a lightweight text editor that uses Scintilla, the same text engine that my favouritest text editor Notepad++ uses. Here's an excellent review from...
Making Yahoo's platform more social
Analysis The company is seeking to add a social dimension to its platform by generating a social graph and profile page for each user and opening up some APIs
BenQ E72
Review If you value compact dimensions in a smartphone above up-to-the-minute features and performance, BenQ's E72 may be the Windows Mobile device for you. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
CodeWeavers brings Chromium to Mac, Linux
News The company has published freely available Mac and Linux versions of Chromium, the open-source browser that underpins Google's Chrome
Lenovo's ThinkServer embargo farrago
Blog Seen the news about Lenovo's entry into the global server market with its ThinkServer range? Well, we did, first thing this morning, on another website. We immediately called up Lenovo's UK PR for...
IceWeasel and a New Bug
Talkback Two totally unrelated comments: If this "disagreement" (for lack of a better word) goes so far that Ubuntu feels that they need to include a non-Mozilla version of Firefox (for lack of a better...
Lenovo debuts small-business servers worldwide
News The Chinese manufacturer's new Xeon-based ThinkServer line targets the global server market for the first time in the company's history
How strife in Wall Street is set to hit tech
Analysis Financial uncertainty at major US securities firms will have ripple effects that could stifle M&A and affect tech companies aiming to go public
HP chief defends EDS buy after job cuts
News In a meeting with financial analysts, CEO Mark Hurd justified the purchase of EDS, following HP's announcement of 24,600 job losses
BusinessWeek site infected by hackers
News Security firm Sophos has discovered a hacker attack waiting to happen on BusinessWeek.com, where malicious code could be used to steal web surfers' data
EU tech institute holds inaugural meeting
News The governing board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, our intended counterpart to MIT, held its first meeting on Monday
Google-Yahoo deal gets EC antitrust scrutiny
News European antitrust regulators are joining their US counterparts in probing what effect the proposed deal could have on the search-ad market
Peru first to trial OLPC laptops with Windows
News Microsoft and the One Laptop per Child project have announced that Peru will be the first country to trial XO laptops running Windows
Google rolls out Gears for Safari
News The company has made available a Safari-friendly version of Gears intended for mass consumption
VMware enters the cloud-computing fray
News The virtualisation company has announced a Virtual Datacenter Operating System and a plan to reassure enterprises that it can make cloud computing work for them
Google releases speed-focused Desktop 5.8
News With the release of Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows, the company has sought to remedy complaints that the software was too slow
3G Cellular Success with Ubuntu!!!
Blog Hooray! My Sierra Wireless AirCard 880 is working with Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron)! This is something I have been wanting to get working for quite a while. What it means is that I won't have to...
Dialogue Box 4.10: Windows Mobile vs the 3G iPhone
Video In the last of the current series, Rupert and Charles look at two of the latest Windows Mobile smartphones, to see how they match up to the standard set by Apple's iPhone 3G
CIO appointed for London 2012 Olympics
News Former Co-operative Financial Services exec Gerry Pennell will design, procure and run the Games tech programme
Intel launches six-core Dunnington chips
News Three iterations of the industry's first six-core, 45nm processors targeted at the high-end server market have been launched, as well as four quad-core versions
HTC goes WVGA with Touch HD
Blog HTC, the hardest-working smartphone maker in the business, has announced another Windows Mobile handset in the Touch family. The headline feature on the Touch HD, which joins an increasingly long...
HP to shed 24,600 jobs
News The company will cut around 7.5 percent of its total workforce as part of a restructuring programme, following the acquisition of EDS
Public-sector 'laggards' resisting Web 2.0
News Public-sector IT body Socitm has urged local-government bodies to embrace Web 2.0 or risk being branded 'Luddites'
fixes some bugs and replaces with new ones
Talkback I was pleased to see battery life has noticeably improved but disappointed with some of the bug fixes. For example Safari would often close at random - like as it had crashed. Now instead of...
RE:Taming the Usability Monster, one button at a time
Blog Comment Actually I could well imagine a more sophisticated version of Goodwins' idea actually getting to the bottom of the users brain. You could data mine the mouse cursor's position,velocity, button...
