Previous DayRE:Novell beats SCO - could Sun be next?
Blog Comment Never attribute anything to cunning which can be better explained by stupidity, and never, never underestimate corporate stupidity. What makes me really sad is to think of how much good could have...
RE:Can Linux Replace Windows - Maybe!
Blog Comment Good point. I did have Windows XP computers and after buying a new Minolta printer I found out that the drivers where designed for Windows 98. Download a patch and they were supposed to work with...
RE:Telegraph shifts 1,400 to Google Apps
Blog Comment It's what happens when you go wondering off, chasing new markets instead of looking after the ones that serve you well, Microsoft should've seen the emergence of ZOHO and the likes as a sign of...
Sony Ericsson to cut 2,000 jobs as profits tumble
News Gartner fears the company's management has 'given up' for the remainder of the year, after the handset maker barely broke even in the second quarter
RE:Can Linux Replace Windows - Maybe!
Blog Comment You are quite right, Linux desktop distributions, especially Ubuntu, provide a superior user experience for all but the most Luddite of users. To avoid worry about hardware difficulties, just buy...
Barclays claims card-reader has eliminated fraud
News Pioneering end-user chip and PIN system has eliminated online scams, the bank claims, though not all are convinced
Court rules university can publish Oyster crack
News Radboud University has been given the green light by a Dutch court to publish details of the cryptographic cracking of the Oyster smartcard
Nokia sees boost in handset sales
News The Finnish mobile-phone maker beat analysts' expectation for second-quarter earnings, increasing its market share to about 40 percent
E-voting flawed in London election, say campaigners
News The Open Rights Group has again said the result of the 2008 London mayoral election may have been skewed by flaws in the e-voting system
Novell beats SCO - could Sun be next?
Blog It looks like the long-running SCO-Novell trial is over, and justice is served. But could this lead to trouble for Sun? It's nicely explained by Pamela Jones at Groklaw as usual. Judge Kimball...
RE:Web 2.0: what is it good for?
Blog Comment Hi Ian, great article, and it just goes to show that there's a wealth of support out there, right at people's fingertips. I'm Chairman of UK Business Forums, and we see small business owners and...
Sprint's Android lead retracts critical comments
News The company's product manager for Android devices asked an enthusiast site to pull an interview in which he said Google needs to work better with the mobile industry
BT's Phorm Trials
Talkback While not wishing to comment on the specifics, it's sad that we now live in a world when the leaders of industry and government play so loose with truth, honesty, integrity and moral values. What...
Telegraph shifts 1,400 to Google Apps
Blog The Torygraph is saying toodle-pip to Microsoft Office and hello to the cloud, according to reports. "Over the three years, there was a five-to-one difference with Google in terms of the...
RE:Whats beyond your Windows?
Blog Comment I made the switch 7 years ago as it was getting a bit easier to work with. Still had to use the command line a bit, whereas now you have an option. Thats what I like about Linux, I decide how I use...
RE:Whats beyond your Windows?
Blog Comment I made the switch about ten years ago, then installing linux was a much more daunting task. I went cold turkey, and you know, it was hard. BUT i wish more than anything else that i had done it...
RE:Admission and Lesson - Don't Overcomplicate Linux!
Blog Comment I always hope things will "just work", and I get lost when they don't. I put Ubuntu on an old Thinkpad T22, but the wireless didn't work - and the screen didn't display. There was stuff on the web,...
Peer protests BT's Phorm trials
Photo At a protest against the trials of the ad-serving technology, peers, protesters and BT shareholders aired their grievances
Web 2.0: what is it good for?
Blog Quite a lot actually. Don’t dismiss it as a buzzword attached to a fad – Web 2.0 technologies enable you to do many of the things you already in business, but a lot faster. The...
Opera Mobile 9.5 beta released
News The first beta version of Opera Mobile 9.5 provides the most standards-compliant mobile browser available, claims the company
Game developers should embrace randomness – but not too much
Blog It must have been turning 40 yesterday that caused me to find myself reading the Observer newspaper Health supplement left over from this weekend. The ‘special’ this week was entitled ‘25 things...
Police, courts to save millions via streamlining tech
News The CJ Know-How system pulls information together from police, the CPS and courts to more speedily rectify problems with offender management
Microsoft pledges more funds for online services
News The spending of hundreds of millions of additional dollars on Microsoft's online ad business is expected be a 'drag' on the rest of the company
Gartner: Security moving into 'the cloud'
News Spending on online security services is forecast to triple by 2013, according to analysts Gartner
AMD's Ruiz steps down as CEO
News Dirk Meyer has been announced as the new CEO of the troubled chip company, while Hector Ruiz will remain as executive chairman
Microsoft testing self-serve Google AdSense rival
News The software giant will start expanding its AdCenter engine to allow some publishers to include contextual advertising from Microsoft on their site
Privacy watchdog may get powers to raid
News Under government proposals to 'sharpen its teeth', the ICO could be granted powers to carry out compulsory inspections under warrant at premises suspected of a data breach
SP3 Under Suspicion Again
Blog I find myself suspecting that there is something very strange wrong with Windows XP SP3, or at least with the installation procedure for it. I had been running this Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 with...
What do you expect?
Talkback BT treats its customers with the same sort of disregard that it did when it was the '"nationalised" Post Office. The broadband service is inconsistent and unreliable even for business users and it...
RE:TokBox Releases Desktop Client
Blog Comment Hi Jamie, and thanks for your interest in TokBox. We're really excited about releasing our AIR application, and happy that people such as you chose to write nice things about it and our service....
