Previous DayRE:Four considerations before deploying Microsoft OCS2007
Blog Comment hi Bob, have a chat to some users of OCS or similar systems... you will be surprised what you hear. These technologies are not meant to replace human interactions such at telephone calls and...
Defra running 13 projects worth £289m
News The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has revealed a complex, late-running and expensive programme of large IT projects
Notebooks for business
Buyer's Guide Buying a notebook, or a fleet of notebooks, for your business? Check out our buyer's guide for an overview of what you should be looking out for.
Adobe seeks to bridge gap between PCs, cloud
Analysis While Microsoft's business is tethered to the PC and Google is trying to conquer the cloud, Adobe plans to show AIR and Flash technology that draws from both approaches
Firefox 2 support to be cut off
News Stability and security releases for the browser will end next month, despite ongoing problems with Firefox 3
Qualcomm serves up Brew SDK to developers
News Qualcomm has introduced a software developer kit for its Brew Mobile Platform, bringing Flash and applications to mid-range mobiles
iPhone 3G helps boost O2 sign-ups
News The Spanish-owned UK operator signed up three-and-a-half times as many new mobile customers in the third quarter 2008 as in the same quarter last year
Proxim: 802.11n to bring back 'fat' access points
News Wireless LAN veteran Proxim has launched a standalone 802.11n system, predicting the end of centralised controllers for WLANs
AMD runs live demo of Shanghai
Photo AMD ran a live demonstration of its latest quad-core processor, Shanghai, at the chip's debut in Berlin
USB 3.0 is ready to go
News The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB has been published by the USB Implementers Forum
Roadrunner pips Jaguar on supercomputer list
News Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop/s barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list
RE:Desktop UI idea - best of both worlds?
Blog Comment I bet you could do this really easily. With a computer running Splashtop or one of the other instant-on Linuxes that live in ROM, all you need to do to get it up and running from within another OS...
Microsoft Store retail website launched
News With the launch of Microsoft Store, Windows Marketplace will shut down as an e-commerce site
IBM faces lawsuit for blocking exec's move to Apple
News Apple iPhone leader-in-waiting Mark Papermaster has filed a countersuit over an 'unreasonably broad' non-compete agreement with former employer IBM
iPhone 2.0 vying with BlackBerry in the enterprise
Analysis While the BlackBerry still rules the boardroom, chief information officers are giving the second-generation iPhone a fresh look
Great news!
Talkback Nice to see Adobe do actually listen to their users. Now, if only they would open up the code and work with the open source community, as Sun have.
Gartner: 85pc of companies using open source
News The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software
RE:Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N and Intel 4965AGN
Blog Comment Well, I might have stumbled across a solution for this problem. It's still a bit early, but so far it looks good. First, thanks for the sympathy and suggestions from Peter and Xwindowsjunkie. I...
Women quitting IT over lack of employer flexibility
News The British Computer Society says 37,000 women left the IT industry between 2001 and 2007, mainly due to employer inflexibility towards career breaks
Motorola Q9
Member Review After a nubver of phones that all have limitations which allways include the battery this phone is a breath of fresh air. Unlikeprevios reviews I have no issue with conjectuing it to a PC via a...
Adobe heeds calls for 64-bit Flash on Linux
News On Monday the company plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology for users of 64-bit Linux software
MoD on hunt for 'budding Qs'
News Prospective small-business suppliers of equipment for front-line troops have been invited to meet with the MoD at a seminar this week
The collaboration conundrum: what’s wrong with REPLY ALL anyway?
Blog I’ve been trying to follow the development of a few companies that offer online collaboration tools in the form of so-called ‘secure online workspaces’ for project development. Of course I’m...
Public rejects high-street enrolment for ID cards
News Identity and Passport Service research indicates only 25 percent of the UK public favours enrolling for ID cards at private-sector retailers
ARM takes on Intel with Adobe partnership
News The chipset designer says it is working to optimise Adobe's rich-media software for ARM's architecture, in a bid to take on Intel
Biggest Threat to an OS is Administrative Privileges
Talkback ator1940 is correct that the operating system design is at fault for the majority of Trojan attacks/infestations simply because so many programs and operating options require Admin or near-admin...
Foiled by those pesky database administrators
Blog The security industry has plenty of standard responses for protecting your business data: encryption, access rights, physical tokens, restricting the ability to export the whole database. Blah blah...
