Previous DayDont be Evil
Talkback Its quite funny that just by being nice and moral, google is kicking ass. Everytime I use Gmail, youtube or maps for free, I cans see why they are so successful the dark days of BT and Microsoft...
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
Analysis OpenSocial's growth as a development platform for social-networking apps means it has to work out where it stands with rivals and programmers
Nasa turns to open-source problem-tracking tool
News The space agency plans to use new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyse problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs
Yang's departure could open door to Microsoft
Analysis Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo may set the stage for another Microsoft offer, shareholders and analysts have said
Telcos warned: Join Google's cloud
News Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned
OLPC 'Give One, Get One' set to launch in UK
News According to a listing on Amazon, UK customers will get the opportunity to take part in the OLPC scheme just in time for Christmas
Mobiles for small businesses...
Blog How many small businesses have found that it is beneficial to sign up to one of the business tariffs offered by the main operators as opposed to sticking to using your personal tariff? what advice...
Amazon launches content-delivery service
News The web company is pushing CloudFront as a high-speed, low-latency alternative to content-delivery-network rivals such as Akamai, while emphasising the service's lack of upfront costs
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
News The unspecified computer virus has resulted in the indefinite shutting down of non-essential IT systems at Barts, the Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital
Trendy Solutions… or How Pre-built Open Source Rocks the Crisis
Blog With the financial crisis, mass lay-offs and vanishing resources, companies get only more demanding. We emphasize reliability and get only more irritated if things are not neat, simple and under...
LHC restart date now June at earliest
News Repairs to Cern's Large Hadron Collider, which suffered a serious malfunction shortly after being turned on in September, could cost as much as £11m
BT fibre-rollout on track despite financial crisis
News Plans to roll out next-generation super-fast broadband across the UK won't be affected by the economic situation, despite concern from some shareholders
This didn't help.
Talkback The fact that Jerry recently stated "it would be good for microsoft if they aquired yahoo" must have been a fairly big shot in the foot. I don't know why they don't push yahoo answers with more...
Lords questions viability of £12bn comms database
News Questions have been asked in the House of Lords about how effective the database would be in tackling terrorism, and whether it could handle the three billion emails and 57 billion texts sent each...
Asus unveils world's 'fastest' smartphone
Photo The business-oriented Asus P565 uses an 800MHz processor, although UK availability for the Windows Mobile 6.1 handset is not yet a certainty
Mobile IE6 to hit Chinese handset first
News China Mobile will be the first operator worldwide to sell a smartphone with Microsoft's latest mobile browser
Novell delivers GroupWise 8
News Novell has released a new version of GroupWise, its answer to Microsoft's popular Outlook/Exchange collaboration suite
RE:The Technological Singularity
Blog Comment Hi Adrian. It does seem that the way people have developed technology is a step beyond the speed of "normal" evolution. The thing is we have been evolved to this point and it seems as...
Mobile industry in RFID payment push
News The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year
HP quadruples network virtualisation option
News The Virtual Connect Flex-10 module allows a single network connection to be split into four virtual connections, which HP promises will cut networking-infrastructure costs
Microsoft gets stuck in to Visual Studio patent woes
Blog In a move likely to be symbolic of future conflict, Microsoft has filed suit to invalidate several patents held by WebXChange, an online services provider. WebXchange has previously sued three...
XenServer 5
Review Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and...
Mozilla Ubiquity to bring mashups to the desktop
News Mozilla has put out a road-map proposal for version 0.2 of Ubiquity that could bring its shortcut features outside the browser and onto the desktop
Sun's StarOffice adds native Mac support
News The latest version of Sun's cut-rate productivity suite can also read — but not write — to the latest Office file formats.
Symantec chief Thompson to retire
News John Thompson will retire in April, but will remain chairman of the board, while company COO Enrique T Salem will take the helm
Office Web Apps won't have offline ability
News Users will need a desktop version of Office to edit documents without an internet connection,Microsoft senior vice president Chris Capossela has said
Transmeta sold to video-chipmaker Novafora
News The struggling chipmaker agrees to be sold to video chipmaker Novafora for $255.6m in cash
Microsoft puts Exchange, SharePoint online
News To target Lotus Notes and protect its turf against Google, the software giant has officially launched Microsoft Online, the hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint
Adobe to bring full Flash to smartphones
News Powerful new mobile phones will get full-on Flash Player 10, not just the lightweight version, although Flash on the iPhone remains on the wish list
RE:Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N and Intel 4965AGN
Blog Comment Update: Mostly good, with one (unsurprising) exception. I did quite a bit more testing yesterday evening, and the wireless connection continued to work flawlessly from XP and every version of...
Yahoo CEO Yang to step down
News Jerry Yang will step back to his chief Yahoo role as soon as a successor is found for the CEO role, the company has announced
The Technological Singularity
Blog Are we approaching a point when machines may wake up and become self or seemingly self aware? Vernor Vinge in 1993 seemed to think so. He refered to this event as the "technological...
