Previous DayHave you seen the Chinese Firefox?
Blog There are Chinese web browsers, of course: there are about 250 million Internet users in China. But there's a bit more to the Chinese Firefox than simply a browser that can display Chinese...
Master data management set to thrive in downturn
News Gartner says the market for software that creates a master, or single view, of data will grow by almost 25 percent this year
Google's Schmidt calls for more innovation
News The chief executive on Monday laid out broad policy proposals for Washington that include opening up the government and investing in infrastructure
Gov't: Most biometric checks will bypass ID database
News Identity minister Meg Hillier has said checks will normally rely on the biometric data held on ID cards and passports rather than the National Identity Register
RE:Mysterious black radio ops in London
Blog Comment Hmmm......could it fire radio waves at comuters and servers and create an image of what's stored on the drives? Seriously though I've put it out there so I'll share what I get back. edit/ one...
TfL salvages Oyster brand in deal with EDS, Cubic
News Following termination of its contract with the Transys consortium for the running of the Oyster ticketing scheme, Transport for London has signed a replacement deal with Transys members EDS and Cubic
CEO skills in the spotlight as Yahoo seeks leader
Analysis Yahoo can pick a CEO for a bold new vision or the ability to execute the company's strategy — or something else altogether. So what's the best approach?
RE:Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Comment Does this mean that an old petnium 4 note book could handle windows7? That would be a revelation. The ones I come across with 2.4ghz and above are very nippy still. Oh and whilst I'm at it, one of...
IBM's HERMES helps the aged
Blog IBM has partnered up with a European consortium for a project that aims to "help support active aging and prevent cognitive decline in the elderly population". The HERMES Cognitive Care for...
RE:Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application developme...
Blog Comment This is not only esperanto attitude. It is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) attitude, and booth are very similar. Most FOSS are multilingual, they have libraries that make it easy. In any...
Ingres releases update to open-source database
News Ingres 9.2 arrives just as analysts predict a spike in the adoption of open-source databases as a result of the economic crisis
Project Kangaroo leaps into alpha testing
News The online TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 is planning to start testing the on-demand media player by the end of the year
BT opens Ribbit platform to developers
News Four months after buying Ribbit, BT is opening the software platform up to developers so they can build innovative telephony services and applications
HP unveils its first multitouch tablet PC
Photo The TouchSmart tx2's 12.1-inch screen can accept touch input from multiple sources at a time, in what HP claims is a first for notebook computing
and don't forget to manage the vulnerabilities.....
Talkback I wondered how a virus could cause such a major issue. I discovered that W32.Mytob.@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses it own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the...
Mysterious black radio ops in London
Blog I had just popped out of our Southwark offices for a moment at lunchtime when a most peculiar vehicle swanned past. It was a shiny black Ford Mondeo estate, but the roof was studded with more...
RE:Trendy Solutions… or How Pre-built Open Source Rocks the Cri...
Blog Comment Timely article Alena. SaS, I think, is going to be a big deal, when it matures. Gael Duval, founder of Mandrake-Mandriva Linux has already gotten the ball rolling. Check out his solution at :...
The other free alternative is ...
Talkback ... download a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and you *never* have to worry about viruses, malware and trojans again. I should think Symantic and McAfee will fight hard to ensure free...
Sun aims HPC at small organisations
News New storage, cluster systems and software aim to take high-performance computing to smaller organisations, departments and branch offices
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
Talkback It has been my opinion, for several years, that critical organizations should not be running a windows based system. Medical institutions, law enforcement, communications, military, etc. There is...
HP announces fourth-quarter sales increase
News The PC maker's revenues hit $33.6bn in what CEO Mark Hurd describes as 'another solid quarter'
Windows 7 on the Apricot netbook
Blog Those of you who keep an eye on this blog will have read my thoughts about Apricot's PicoBook Pro netbook - out of the current crop of low-cost subnotebooks, this has to be one of the...
Microsoft, Novell prepare 'Moonlight' beta
News As Microsoft hits the second anniversary of its deal with Novell, the software makers announce they are nearly ready with a beta version of the Linux-based Silverlight player
Photos: HTC Touch Viva
Photo HTC's Touch Viva is an affordable Windows Mobile smartphone featuring the TouchFLO interface.
IBM to acquire Transitive
News The company, whose technology allows code to run on a different OS or architecture than originally intended, is best known for powering Apple's Rosetta
Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple rejected
News Mac-clone maker Psystar's best hope of emerging as a winner in its legal dispute with Apple has been dealt a severe blow by a US federal judge
RE:Back on track
Blog Comment Aah, if only there was a hard disk! I actually put the reconfiguration at 10-12 hours, and then the SD card failed after a couple of days. Alas, my backup hard disk is in a moving box in a room...
A bucket with a hole by any other name
Blog A good friend of mine is having ongoing and traumatic connection problems with 3 Mobile Broadband (the joke is that 3 stands for 3% chance of connecting). The hapless operator admitted as much that...
Yahoo's BrowserPlus goes open source
News Trying to be more open and encourage innovation, the company will release source code behind its project to make web browsers more powerful computing foundations
Microsoft replaces OneCare with free product
News The software giant will discontinue fee-based security and its Windows Live OneCare service in favour of free consumer software focused on protecting PCs against malware
Great to have the patches but which of my systems actually n...
Talkback Microsoft are really serving the customers well in providing a predictable 'patch tuesday' issue of patches, and this report certainly provides us excellent guidance on the issues behind the...
Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application development
Blog I am just in the process of upgrading from the 2004 version to Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 (why on earth do we Mac users only get a look in every four years!) and I’m wondering whether to take...
Eliminate Malware by Controlling Application Use
Talkback This report draws our attention to the fact that once again, the battle to protect a network from malware has proved insurmountable. We are now very aware that anti-virus applications alone cannot...
