Previous DayRE:Mobile Data Card - Watch those bills!
Blog Comment Before the days of mobile data cards there was still a risk... A temporary working location in the Balkans, a local ISP with a relatively stable link and low price was established... the first bill...
The Global Village is one step closer...
Blog With the announcement of BT and FONs collaboration today I must admit to a slight smile crossing my face... We work in an industry which, despite the advances in technology, is crippled by...
Is your world still flat?
Talkback I would hope that before these comments were posted a quick check of the BT site was made... but obviously not!! The other FON users accessing your HomeHub do so on what is, in essence, a VLAN with...
Brocade: Faster and greener than the competition?
Video At Storage Expo 2007, Brocade claims its 48000 Director for storage area networks gives twice the performance of competing offerings for the same cost, while consuming a third of the energy
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/release/ubuntu-7.10...
Talkback http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/release/ubuntu-7.10-dvd-i386.iso Downloaded Gutsy, v7.10 last night. Ran the live version worked perfectly. Interestingly even my new Logitecth MX Air which...
Nexsan's compact and green approach to storage
Video At Storage Expo 2007, Nexsan Technologies explains an approach that helps control the size of storage farms by increasing the amount of data that can be stored on disks of any size
Taking the green approach to storage
Video At Storage Expo 2007, Pillar Data Systems' Bob Maness reveals how his company, which is backed by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is taking an energy-efficient approach to storage
Timms: IT education key for a competitive UK
News Competitiveness minister Stephen Timms has called for investment in IT education to plug the skills gap and help the UK compete globally
WiMax joins 3G family
News WiMax's incorporation into the IMT-2000 set of standards paves the way for co-operation with 3G in the evolution of wireless broadband
PC graphics coming to a mobile near you
Video At the Symbian Smartphone Show, Gareth Vaughan of ARM gives a demo of the Mali200 dual-core mobile GPU, a mobile chip geared to high-performance graphics
Actor dispatches Amazon's 1-Click patent
News A New Zealand actor has convinced the US Patent and Trademark Office that Amazon wasn't the first to offer single-click e-commerce
Becta takes Microsoft to the OFT
News Open-source advocates say the government schools IT agency's complaint will only increase Microsoft's visibility
Becareful what you wish for
Talkback If some people had their way and we accessed everything via the internet (TV, applications, entertainment) then we are opening ourselves up for a single point of failure. Earlier this year due to...
Timms: Home workers will need fibre access
News Competitiveness minister Stephen Timms says fibre-to-the-home will be necessary for home workers who need high-quality videoconferencing
Storage vendors clash in green debate
News At Storage Expo 2007, Pillar Data Systems and HDS clashed during a debate on the best ways to make storage tech more energy efficient
Round up the Social Networks
Talkback I think a distinction between social networking sites should be made when it comes to identifing whats going to burst and what will stuck around. There are 3 types of site that spring to my mind...
Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks
Review The Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks provides unmatched image quality, but its design could be improved. Although the clear, bright video output will amaze, the constant readjusting of the...
BT announces wind-farm scheme
News The communications and IT services giant hopes that wind power will provide a quarter of its electricity needs by 2016
Social networking faces an uncertain future
News Analysts have compared the popularity of social-networking sites such as Facebook to the dot-com boom, and warn that long-term growth is by no means assured
Cambridge rings the changes with converged IP
News Avaya has won a contract to supply Cambridgeshire County Council with a new voice network, which should lead to significant savings
WiMax and the Spiggot Problem
Blog Let me say before anything that technically, I like WiMax. It is a fine standard. Nothing pleases me more than the idea of huge amounts of wireless bandwidth available everywhere at modest cost,...
Ooops
Talkback Lufthansa did a study some years back, where it concluded that on average there is more than one phone left on on every flight. And that was then. I've got two phones now, my personal mobile and...
Benefits of working in the Public Sector?
Talkback Oh well, a few years in the public sector should teach them the values of: - how having to zero your budget every financial year makes for good financial management - NOT - how having a change of...
Gates reflects on the future of tech
Video Voice and touch recognition will become pervasive, transforming the office environment, says Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
Is it easier to hire open source developers?
Blog Chatting to Steve Raby, UK country manager for open source ECM vendor Nuxeo yesterday, an interesting point was raised around the issue of motivation of open source developers versus developers on...
Mobile Data Card - Watch those bills!
Blog Being a big fan of my 3G USB data card - I was surprised recently when a friend recounted how his company had issued several of these cards to users, only to subsequenly recall all the cards and...
Mobile madness
Talkback Hasn't Japan just banned any electronic devices on their planes that can uses any kind of wireless functionality such as a Nintendo DS Source: Emma Boyes @ Gamespot News Just goes to show when...
RE:I'm Google, fly me!
Blog Comment That's easy. An accountant has calculated that for 80% of the time, at least one jet will be away somewhere else, therefore it doesn't make financial sense to pay for 5 parking spaces. During the...
Government seeks out new tech talent
News A scheme has been launched that aims to recruit up to 20 of the best graduates from around the UK this year, who will apply their skills to public-sector IT projects
Cisco: Digital switchover should favour broadband
News The company has issued a plea for radio frequencies freed up in the digital switchover to be used for wireless broadband services, such as HSPA and mobile WiMax
