Previous DayThe VAMS-0808 matrix switcher and determining its protocol - part 2
Blog As I mentioned last month, I bid on and won an 8×8 AV matrix switcher on eBay. The switcher arrived the Monday following the Saturday that I won it (speediest delivery ever!), so I took it home...
e-crime tax?
Talkback It's arguable that cyber-crime is just like any other crime and that we already pay tax to cover that. It will be interesting to hear what businesses think of this: will all business be required...
The sorry state of solid state
Leader Everyone wants solid-state disk drives — apart from those who have them
Microsoft nears bottom of Greenpeace league table
News In the campaigner's latest green league table of electronics companies, Samsung and Toshiba have stolen Nokia's top spot and Microsoft comes third to last
Hannafords supermarket loses up to 4.2m records
Blog Hannaford's chain of supermarkets in the US has lost up to 4.2 million customer records. A Hannaford's employee told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that 2000 of the compromised customer credit and debit...
Embarcadero aims to attract Eclipse SQL developers
News The company has released its PowerSQL database-management product to improve productivity for application developers involved with SQL development
Microsoft releases Vista SP1
News After days of speculation, Vista Service Pack 1 has appeared on Microsoft's Download Center. The availability of the download appears to have even caught the company's own people by surprise
Cracking open the Apple MacBook Air
Photo The MacBook Air is thin, light and a testament to what good engineering can accomplish in a notebook computer — so here's a peek inside the ultra-thin machine
Epson Stylus D120
Review Epson's Stylus D120 offers solid build and print quality, ease of use and fast print speeds, while the high-yield dual black ink system offers extra convenience for those requiring relatively large...
Who pays???
Talkback This typifies thinking in government, both political and civil service, that programmes can be funded by various different organisations rather than tax payer funded government purse. The rather...
Salesforce chief takes stock of software shifts
Q&A Chief executive Marc Benioff discusses cloud computing, an uneasy economy and why Microsoft is still a dinosaur
VMware targets Windows admins with toolkit beta
News The Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 Beta is aimed at boosting adoption of VMware virtualisation products within the Microsoft space
RSA sees increase in fast-flux botnets
News The security vendor claims more gangs are using fast-flux techniques to hide networks of compromised computers, but University of Cambridge researchers disagree
Flash-based notebooks plagued by returns
News Notebooks with flash-based hard drives cost a lot and are plagued by returns, according to mounting evidence
Hosted-applications usage on the rise
News A Forrester Research report suggests that adoption of software as a service is increasing in large enterprise, but significant barriers remain
HP Insight Dynamics virtualises physical servers
News The company has introduced software that allows IT managers to manage physical and virtual assets as though they are the same
Novell pushes agile infrastructure vision
News The networking and open-source specialist claims it is well positioned to instigate a 'revolution' around agility and flexibility in enterprise computing
Dialogue Box 3.2: Why the wait for solid state?
Video Dialogue Box finds out what's driving hard-disk replacements
Australian expo aims to entice UK techies
News The 'Australia Needs Skills' expo in London is looking to attract a growing list of IT specialists needed to address the country's skills shortage
RE:Hitting the exponential software growth curve hard
Blog Comment As a follow up to yesterday’s blog - I asked a pal of mine called Mike Harrold for his thoughts on this subject. Mike has run the International Sybase User Group for a good while now so he’s pretty...
Businesses urged to invest in staff training
News The government has set out its vision for turning the UK into an 'innovation nation', targeting the skills crisis and lack of training as barriers to success
Sun prepares for MySQL tuning
News James Gosling has said that rather than develop a new API for MySQL, Sun is likely to do a lot more tuning work around it
Businesses may be forced to fund e-crime unit
News Under a proposal being considered by the Home Office, the private sector would have to contribute to the cost of a national police e-crime unit
