Previous DayWhen spin becomes downright untruth
Talkback ID cards will not bring benefits to airside workers. It may speed up the vetting process if the applicant has an ID crd before applying, but tht is not what is proposed. All airside workes have...
RE:Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone
Blog Comment Talk about stating the obvious! That's Apple and that's what Apple do. It's their company and people who don't want that don't have to buy or if your a big tech firm be involved with the platform....
RE:Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog Comment thanks a lot for the info. actually i'm not using the 2133, but a UMPC with the same chipset. i only managed to install jaunty j. 9.04 alpha 4 but resolution is not correct and compiling openchrome...
Country vicar 0 - evil technology 1
Blog My father, the retired country vicar, is used to the vagaries of technology. At midnight on Christmas Eve, for example, a 400v electrical surge took out just about every electrical gadget in the...
HP and the African e-waste problem: Round 2
Blog I have been tracking the issue of illegal dumping of old tech in Africa for a while now and reported HP's first efforts to investigate this issue last year: ...
Lord criticises proposed data-sharing law
Blog A proposed law that would overturn one of the principles of the Data Protection Act has been criticised by a prominent peer. Merlin, Earl of Erroll, told ZDNet UK that changes to data law...
ZManda puts SME backup in the cloud
Blog ZManda on Monday launched cloud computing-based backup and recovery software for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). ZMands Cloud Backup (ZCB) is designed to be easy to configure and...
Alcatel-Lucent aims to lead 4G consortium
News The telecoms company pulls together manufacturers and developers in an attempt to steer the creation of 4G wireless devices, applications and content
Skype stakes a place on Nokia smartphones
News Skype will embed its internet calling software and service onto Nokia phones, starting with the high-end N97 device
Fury over Facebook terms of service changes
Blog Arguments are raging about a change Facebook has made to its terms of service (TOS). On one side, privacy protestors who claim that the changes mean that Facebook "Can Do Anything [it wants]...
Single charger coming for mobile phones
News Mobile-industry leaders agree to use Micro-USB as a single standard for phone chargers, promising to reduce the number of chargers shipped and the number needed by users to revive their handsets
Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone
Blog Companies in the mobile industry will need to be "open" to succeed, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday. However, he said, this may take place "in different ways and at...
Red Hat, Microsoft expand virtualisation alliance
News The rivals have teamed up to make virtualisation deployment easier and more flexible for enterprises
RE:Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog Comment Hello Fab, Hmmm. That's an interesting question, and it brings an interesting possibility to mind. Yes, initial installation of Debian lenny is considerably easier than Ubuntu 8.10, because it...
Cisco adds web conferencing to more smartphones
News Smartphone users will soon be able to join WebEx conferences from their handsets, and Cisco has added the capability for BlackBerry devices
Toshiba snaps up Fujitsu HDD business
News The Japanese electronics manufacturer has agreed to buy Fujitsu's hard-disk drive business, in a move aimed at expanding its footprint in the enterprise storage market
Qualcomm and Nokia ink deal. Hell reported 'chilly'
Blog It's been one of the great spats of the mobile world - Nokia versus Qualcomm. At heart were vertiginous stacks of disputed intellectual property; both companies owning essential IP that the other...
AT&T: Dell to release smartphone
Blog Dell is set to launch a smartphone, AT&T chief executive Ralph de la Vega has revealed. Speaking at a Mobile World Congress keynote session on Tuesday morning, de la Vega said: "Acer announced...
Windows Mobile 6.5: a first look
Preview Microsoft's updated mobile OS brings a handful of enhancements, including an application store, a backup and restore service, and an improved mobile web browser
Pilots may bring legal challenge against ID card plan
News Lawyers for the British Airline Pilots' Association are looking into a possible legal challenge to government plans for pilots to take up the identity cards this year
Photos: Windows Mobile 6.5
Photo Microsoft has shown off Windows Mobile 6.5 at Mobile World Congress, although new devices will not appear until the second half of 2009. Check out its look and feel here.
SpinVox opens up its API for new apps
News The speech-to-text conversion company hopes its open application programming interface will allow developers to create new, as-yet-unthought-of applications for the technology
Backup 3.0 update adds Linux files
News Veeam's recovery software for VMware virtual machines now lets users recover individual Linux files from image backups
Toshiba Portégé R600-101
Review The Portégé R600 is a very alluring 1.11kg ultraportable, although the transflective screen mode, some aspects of build quality and battery life could all be better.
Single biggest thing holding Linux back? Vendor lock-in
Blog Matthew McKenzie over at InformationWeek raised some points recently which got me thinking about the level of uptake of desktop Linux. Among his comments were: "Conversely, Windows 7 delivers...
