Previous DayPictures: Downtime at Novell Brainshare
Blog Novell’s Brainshare conference is underway this week in Salt Lake City Utah. The 5000 attendees have plenty of information to absorb with the hundreds of tutorials and seminars – not to mention...
You Thought Call Centres Were Bad
Blog E-mail is officially the UK’s worst channel for customer service - at least according to men in white coats at ‘eService’ provider Transversal. For e-business owners - and customers I suppose -...
Intel slips out a few teasers on six-core, Nehalem, 32nm
Blog Intel's priming the PR pump prior to IDF Spring in a couple of week's time, with a set of announcements about Nehalem, Sandy Bridge and Larrabee. I got on the blower to a telephone conference with...
Exaggerating the problem
Talkback Could it be that ISP’s are making this out to be a bigger problem than it actually is? We’re a small country with an internet penetration of less than 60%, for every Youtuber there’s someone who...
The First iPhone Mobile Torrent
Blog The First iPhone Mobile Torrent Arrives By: Eric Everson, MyMobiSafe.com 2008 has been dog-eared as the “Year of the Mobile Torrent” so it stands to be expected that the first iPhone torrent...
Novell focuses future strategy around endangered mongoose
Blog Speaking at the company's annual user conference Brainshare, Novell's CTO Jeff Jaffe has announced the company's new technology strategy which it has rather curiously decided to name after an...
Clarification
Talkback Tom, Of course, more than happy to clarify: 1. Who is spinning what, exactly, and why? BBC, the story, distract attention and damage control. 2. How is the iPlayer employing "security through...
Asus Eee, Linux sync with Outlook PIM / smartphone
Forum Hi - I'm looking at buying an Asus Eee and am a total novice to Linux - which will likely show in my question. The thing that's holding me back from buying is the Eee's Linux 2.0.4 absence of a...
The Limits to Bandwidth
Talkback We effectively have fiber to the exchange (BT and BSkyB) The limits on bandwidth, is in the aspirations of the telecom companies, as Japan has demonstrated. The current limits to bandwidth (in the...
Avaya tackles 'economic reality' with unified comms
News The company says its unified-comms suite, starting at 15 pence per worker, per day, is partly a response to businesses' needs during the economic downturn
IBM acquires single-sign-on company
News The computing giant has acquired Encentuate, which offers technology for identity and access management
BMC to buy BladeLogic for £398m
News The acquisition will fill out BMC's systems-management portfolio with BladeLogic's configuration-management tools for datacentres
Hitting the exponential software growth curve hard
Blog Part and parcel of the software industry is the constant release of new versions of each vendor’s product. We look forward to version 1.0 throughout the beta process, we see 1.1 and 1.2 come along...
Pachyderms and fibre
Talkback ... and what an elephant it is, too. The issue as I see it is not that bandwidth is un-expandable. It's that it won't be expanded in time to cope with the very sudden growth in usage that's...
Novell's user conference underway in Utah
Blog Yep - it's Brainshare time again in Salt Lake City. I am over here listening to the keynote by Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian who has managed to stay clear of saying anything interesting so...
Microsoft, Intel to sponsor multicore research
News The two companies are expected to launch a joint research initiative to tackle programming for multicore processors
Who's your IT Community Hero?
Blog Tis the season for us at ZDNet Towers to start thinking about planning the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards, which celebrate the past year's tech successes (and are an excuse for a great...
The problem with the telepresence picture
Feature High-end videoconferencing tech has been slow to take off but, despite the price, the benefits of telepresence mean its only a matter of time, claim analysts
Microsoft gets into chips (not really)
Blog Wintel? Bah! Check out this link for the ultimate in Windows-themed chips, as seen in Cairo. Rumours of the Vista flavour being withdrawn for being too fatty are completely made up.
Nonsense: The Bandwidth Party continues.
Talkback People get paid for these opinions ? The statements on bandwidth are simply not true and never have been true. Technological progress and optical fiber ensure that sufficent bandwidth is available....
Open Source is Gay?
Blog I can imagine Steve Ballmer casting aspersions on Linux' manliness back in the days when Microsoft didn't like open source. But actually, my headline is a tease lead in to a more serious issue -...
Microsoft-Yahoo deal may hurt internet
Talkback What will happen to yahoo IM? Will it be converted to MSN messenger? Yahoo mail merged with hotmail? Will they be integrated into the next windows release? Too many questions about a company that...
Windows Mobile gets Flash compatibility
News Microsoft's licensing of Flash Lite and Reader LE came as Adobe announced its rich web content software has shipped on over half a billion handsets
How telepresence is targeting healthcare
Case Study A Scottish hospital is investigating whether high-end videoconferencing technology could have a role to play in the treatment of patients
HMRC named 'internet villain' of the year
News HM Revenue & Customs earned the award from the Internet Services Providers' Association for its loss of millions of UK citizens' private data
No Licence is required to Watch iplayer in the UK
Talkback A TV Licence is required to watch live broadcasts ie. News24 via the BBC website, but is not required to watch 'catch up' ITV, or BBC iplayer programmes. BBC have stated that the number of people...
E-TEN Glofiish M800
Review We are impressed with the range of functions and capabilities E-TEN has built into the Glofiish M800. However, the touch-sensitive buttons on the front are a serious design error, as they interfere...
'Hacking' SPIN covers BBC's untenable position
Talkback The succession of hacked/patched/hacked/patched/hacked stories, whilst very exciting, have two fundamental flaws: 1) The BBC's so-called 'copy protection' for the iPhone is merely 'security through...
Microsoft defends validity of open-source move
News The software giant has fought back against Software Freedom Law Centre's claims that the Open Specification Promise is not as open as it should be
Asian firms boost salaries to secure IT talent
News Firms in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong are hiking salaries and resorting to other staff-retention practices as they compete to attract skilled IT professionals
London still Wi-Fi capital of the world
News Data from iPass's Wi-Fi Hotspot Index shows the world is in the grip of Wi-Fi fever, as business use of hotspots almost doubled in 2007
