Previous DayRE:UK Broadband Sucks - Official
Blog Comment This is the same Tiscali that are lobbying for charging content providers for bandwidth usage, they complain that services such as BBC iPlayer and Chanel4 OD are chocking bandwidth. How ironic that...
Wikileaks taken offline
Blog On Monday, the main site of Wikileaks was ordered to be taken offline by a California judge. According to a press release from Wikileaks, which provides an anonymous, encrypted online...
Novell buys into collaboration
Blog Coillaboration is a big part of open source (making any software is collaborative, but in open source the collaboration goes beyond the team making the product) . So it's interesting to see Novell...
Planning for the best in a consolidating market
Leader 2008 will be an interesting year for vendors and customers. There are opportunities in the challenges ahead
RE:UK Broadband Sucks - Official
Blog Comment I second that motion. I recently had a nightmare with tiscali who for one reason or another stopped supplying the internet to my house. Im a networker so i knew my local area network was sound and...
No win situation for the employees.
Talkback I once worked for a company who's US shareholders took them to court for announcing a final dividend down on previous estimates due to a far east recession. The US court upheld the shareholder...
Windows Mobile 6.1 spotted
Blog Readers of this blog may recall my frustration at Microsoft's spectacularly unspectacular press conference last week at Mobile World Congress. They just didn't have much to say, which was really...
UK Broadband Sucks - Official
Blog Broadband users will be delighted to know that the average speed in the UK is a pitiful 2.95Mbps. According to 18,558 tests carried out this month by a large broadband comparison site, some...
Four Windows Server 2008 storage improvements
Feature Microsoft is making a number of major improvements to the server's underlying storage mechanisms with its latest release
Enterprise Java: Coming together at the Seam
Q&A Gavin King, founder of Hibernate and JBoss Seam, discusses Java 2 Enterprise Edition, open source and other Java-related issues
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News As part of its bid for ISO ratification of the Office Open XML file format, Microsoft has published specs for Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Buffalo hits 500GB heights with mini-drive
News The compact drive contains a terabyte of storage in a 2.5-inch shock-proof package that's small enough to fit in a pocket
Cracking open the BlackBerry Curve
Photo When disassembling the BlackBerry Curve 8310, TechRepublic's John Lee is amazed to find the whole device is held together by just six tiny screws
UK's Elonex releases £99 OLPC rival
News The PC maker claims its Linux-based notebook will help close the digital divide while fighting Microsoft's operating system 'monopoly'
RE:Let laptop battle commence
Blog Comment Although performance is not the main purpose of these systems I would still like to know how their compare on that front. Even just the under-the-hood specs comparision would be nice. Looks-wise...
Italy
Talkback Let me give you an typical example. I have Telecom Italia ADSL (Telecom Italia is the ex monopoly state owned company like BT was) but I'd like to pass my adsl to Tiscali. A lot faster and cheaper....
India’s tech boom not reflected in child mortality
Blog Living in a comfortable Western country and being constantly immersed in new technology can give you a pretty skewed view of the world – so it’s good to remind yourself sometimes of the privileges...
Schneier: Perceptions of security are flawed
Video Bruce Schneier says that the failure of language to distinguish between the 'feeling' and 'reality' of security thwarts discussions on the subject
Bank cuts PC power costs by £6,000
News Remotely powering down XP PCs using a desktop-management package means less wasted energy, the bank claims
EC approves localised broadband deregulation
News Ofcom's proposals to ease broadband regulations in areas of the UK where BT is no longer dominant get an enthusiastic reception from the European Commission
Web tool helps target scammers
News The government's consumer advice service has added a function to its website to enable victims of scams to report their experiences
At least SCO will now live to know total defeat.
Talkback I'd have hated to have seen SCO go out of business before the Judge had had a chance to deliver his verdict.
And anti-competitive practices are better...!
Talkback Let's not forget how Microsoft Word achieved dominance over the previous market leader WordPerfect: Microsoft bundled Word with sales of Windows, and prevented OEMs from doing the same with...
Switching broadband provider is still problematic
News Despite Ofcom rules introduced a year ago to make the process easier, broadband subscribers are still reporting difficulties when moving to a new provider
Phishing attacks unleashed on UK banks
News Analysts have warned the attacks could mark the emergence of a new threat from the Storm botnet
