Previous DayThis is such a bad idea...
Talkback I mean it's a great idea for Adobe. Bad for everyone else. Why should our TVs come pre-installed with the processor sucking POS that is Flash? Let's think about the sort of things this could lead...
Not so bad.
Talkback MySQL is reasonably safe as it has already been forked. Makes me wonder if someone knew which way the wind was blowing and jumped ship early. I'm not sure of the status of Open Office, but I'm not...
Oracle's Sun day creates new world for enterprise
Leader Oracle's acquisition of Sun raises many questions. The most pressing is: what happens to old partners?
OpenOffice.org 'optimistic' over Oracle's Sun buyout
Blog The OpenOffice.org team has welcomed Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, following the buyout's announcement on Monday. John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org's marketing lead, told ZDNet UK that...
This is bad news for Sun customers
Talkback Any Sun hardware customer may now have further doubts about being a Sun customer as Oracle is not interested in hardware unless it is prepared to upset it relationship's with IBM, DELL, HP etc....
Government to reassess tech strategy
News Business secretary Peter Mandelson has said the government plans to look at a number of measures in an effort to revamp its technology strategy
Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4bn
News The enterprise software company will buy server specialist Sun at a share price of $9.50, the companies have announced
...erm, what about MySQL, Open Office?
Talkback Am I the only person to be concerned about a large corp owning it's leading, open source competitor?! And Open Office?! Open sourcing Solaris made Sun worthy of such ownership. Just because Oracle...
OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via
News As part of a wider hardware refresh, the XO laptop for education in developing countries will get a Via C7-M instead of an AMD Geode processor
FBI used spyware to capture hackers, hitmen
News Documents obtained in a freedom-of-information request show the US law-enforcement agency used a secret form of spyware in a number of investigations
BBC iPlayer goes high definition
News Selected programmes will soon be available on the on-demand TV service in HD form, for both streamed and downloaded content
New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog It was a sunny weekend, the first for ages, so what's a geek to do? Stay in and upgrade his Ubuntu, of course. Jaunty Jackalope - Ubuntu 9.04 - welcome to my life. And the hot news? There is no...
Exchange 2010 beta: screenshots
Photo Chances are that your corporate emails are handled by a Microsoft Exchange server. Here's a tour of a beta version of the upcoming Exchange Server 2010.
Nice Wallpaper
Blog If you want something a bit more interesting than the standard desktop background for your display (or you use Ubuntu and you're just tired of BROWN!), you might want to take a look at what is...
Adobe brings Flash to TVs, set-top boxes
News The company has created a new version of its Flash multimedia player that can be embedded in TVs and set-top boxes
HP Color LaserJet CP2025n
Review Although its black print speed could be quicker and it lacks USB-direct printing and wireless, HP's Color LaserJet CP2025n shines in output quality, while the software provides plenty of useful help.
Objective snaps up UK SaaS provider
News The Australian software company has announced its acquisition of UK-based fellow content-management developer Limehouse Software
Smaller deals offer a boost for outsourcing
News While the number of megadeals has fallen, an increase in smaller contracts means the total value of all outsourcing deals signed in 2008 was £30bn — a third more than 2007's total
What to expect from Intel’s ‘Parallel Universe’ Software Conference 2009
Blog Let’s start off with a question: what is Austria most famous for? You might cite a certain episode involving Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Esten, or how about its status as the birthplace of...
RE:Open source in government, and where to start
Blog Comment Some years back, I'd prepared a discussion paper for some public-sector organisations here in Australia, covering the development of a government 'code repository', a GovForge if you like, where...
