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Archive - 19 Mar 2009

Bonjour!

Talkback Giver uses a technology known as Bonjour, Avahi, and ZeroConf. Luckily Pidgin, the instant messenger included with Ubuntu, and various other distributions also supports Bonjour, and can be used for...

NetSuite adds cloud product range for coders

News The online application company will expand its range with the addition of cloud-based developer software

Privacy? What Privacy?

Talkback It seems that this Government is determined to stamp out any free speech and privacy. When re-elected or after the next elections are cancelled due to a perceived terrorist threat all written mail...

Australian media authority plugs potential leaks

News The Australian Communications and Media Authority is looking at ways to tighten security of its blacklist of banned websites, following a supposed leak, the authenticity of which was later denied

Microsoft's Silverlight 3 goes into beta

News The company's Flash rival now supports out-of-browser, rich internet applications and high-definition, 3D graphics

Internet Explorer 8: features & benchmarks

Tech Guide With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft is looking to stem the loss of market share to rivals like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. The browser has had a serious revamp, but has Microsoft done enough?

London's Olympic Park begins to take shape

Photo Techies and construction crews are working around the clock to transform a muddy site in the borough of Newham into an Olympics venue fit for the 21st century

Oracle delivers solid third quarter

News Fiscal third-quarter earnings were better than expected, while the strong dollar hits fourth-quarter outlook

EMC launches higher-capacity enterprise flash

News The company believes demand for higher-capacity flash drives is growing, and has rolled out 200GB and 400GB versions for its three main storage lines

Cisco to pick up Pure Digital for £407m

Blog Cisco has announced its intention to buy Pure Digital, the makers of the popular Flip Video low-cost camcorders. In a statement on Thursday, Cisco senior vice president Ned Hooper said the $590m...

Internet Explorer 8: screenshot gallery

Photo Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download. Here's a gallery showing some of its main new features.

Google Street View comes to the UK

News The Google Maps functionality, which allows users to see and navigate an area as if they were on the street itself, has gone live for 25 cities in the UK

HP's Hurd grilled over bonuses, competition

News At an annual shareholders' meeting, chief executive Mark Hurd faced questions on executive pay and competition from IBM, Cisco and Apple

Safari hole exploited in seconds at hack contest

News Charlie Miller, who won a contest in 2008 by hacking a MacBook Air, exploited a security hole in Safari within seconds at the CanSecWest conference

3G and 4G market share set to rise, says report

News Over the next five years, 3G and 4G network subscriptions will capture 30 percent of the global wireless market, according to an In-Stat report

Android-powered netbooks predicted for 2009

News Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavours of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop

The challenges to IBM of buying Sun

Analysis On paper, a deal could make some sense, as Sun has some appealing assets. But given how directly the companies' product lines overlap, there is no shortage of potential difficulties

Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 8

News A year after the browser first became available as a beta, Internet Explorer 8 has finally been released to the public in finished form

RE:Deploying education desktops - made easier

Blog Comment Hi devlin7. You wrote: "Thanks for the feedback and link. At present we are given heavily subsudised Microsoft deals and yes you are right in that we have no reason to change. I can see however...

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