Archive - 20 Nov 2006 - Technology News, Blogs, Product Reviews and White Papers

UMC produces first 45nm SRAM

News A posse of companies is getting ready to mass produce 45-nanometre processors

Talkback The project was not a failure due to the OS distribution choice or because the choosen distribution did'nt work I've been told it was simply due to the business (Libraries) not wanting to implement...

Small companies ignorant of security warns expert

News Former White House security adviser Howard Schmidt says SMEs must take more care of cybersecurity or outsource to managed services

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Interest in disaster planning is waning

News After a surge in demand for disaster planning services post-9/11, interest in advanced planning services seems to be slackening says Gartner

Vodafone moves beyond network provision

News Operator snaps up companies specialising in CRM, managed services and corporate mobile access management

Operators want RFID in phones

News GSM Association says your mobile phone would make the perfect credit card, car key and concert ticket but future direction is unclear

Whiteboard: The mystery of 'dark fibre'

Video Learn three reasons for building out excess fibre-optic cable

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Dark Fibre

Whiteboard: How cities go wireless

Video More and more cities are using mesh network technology to provide wireless access

N-triguing wireless results

Blog Wireless networking kit based on the draft 802.11n specification has been available for a while, and we've now performed some throughput tests on a range of products built around different...

From smartphones to super-smartphones

Comment Mobile handsets may be able to offer you tips on improving your telephone manner one day, says Symbian's executive vice president of research, David Wood

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Smartphone

Lighting a fire in IT teaching

Leader If you can't decode this, it's time to go back to school: FOR F=1 to 3: PRINT "Education ";: NEXT F

Scamalot

Blog I've been glancing through Michael Peel's Chatham House report Nigeria-Related Financial Crime And Its Links With Britain, off the back of how it was reported in the papers (such as the Metro's...

Blair wants to hear from YOU

Blog Much hilarity at Tony Blair's e-petitions initiative, which has so far succeeded in getting people to ask that the PM: stand on his head and juggle ice-cream, change the national anthem to "Land of...

Tax Payers Pay Again

Talkback Once again we have schemes thought up by self styled "experts" at outlandish costs - and then fail. Instead of these "experts" we need just plain old common sense and tightening of the tax payer...

Bill Gates talks Vista and Linux

Q&A In the second part of our interview, Microsoft's chairman shares his favourite feature in Windows Vista, and his thoughts on open source

Red Hat releases second enterprise beta

News Linux vendor prepares for a New Year launch of updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux

EC repeats call for telco super-regulator

News An EU-wide telecommunications super-regulator could help avoid 'ping-pong' between individual states and the Commission

Confused? Patent it.

Talkback We were talking about this sort of thing in the 70s UK and I am pretty certain it was implemented on mainframes, so what gives? OK the processors are smaller but the ideas were already public...

So close yet so far...

Blog I've been on a quest for a new handset for a while now (my current phone is the Qtek S100 - a fine beast but I want more current functionality) and got quite excited when I saw this baby, the HTC...

Moore laws

Blog A piece currently in the works here at ZDNet UK talks about the peculiarly slow way new ideas seep through the industry, especially compared with the speed at which the technology itself advances....

He pleaded guilty so how does one justify $15m legal costs?

Talkback According to the article, he pleaded guilty 2 weeks before the trial started so can I have one of those jobs? Is this more creative accounting?

Someone needs to get this message out to local BCS groups

Talkback This problem has been longstanding and locally we have been trying to instigate programmes to make the industry more attractive to school pupils. Unfortunately we are attempting to do this in...

Draft-N wireless solutions

Group Test Which 'Draft-N' wireless networking equipment should you buy? Should you, in fact, buy it at all? We examine the issues, test the kit and come up with the answers.

Netgear RangeMax Next

Review Netgear's Draft-N solution is the best in terms of looks and performance, but interoperability and backwards compatibility are still not guaranteed.

Linksys Wireless-N

Review This is a solid wireless router in the familiar Linksys mould, which benefits from good interoperability with other Atheros-based products.

D-Link RangeBooster N 650

Review D-Link's RangeBooster N 650 is a solid performer that works well with similar Atheros-based solutions, but not so well with equipment based on other chipsets.

Buffalo AirStation Nfiniti Wireless-N

Review Flexible configuration is a plus for business use, but the AirStation Nfiniti Wireless-N is not the fastest Draft-N solution around and lacks interoperability.

Belkin N1

Review The Belkin N1 is good looking and very easy to set up and use, but could do with more business-oriented features.

Facts: Successful Pilot

Talkback Coming to what we know of the project, the implementation of the Linux pilot I believe was a success, and various members of the linux community, opensource advantage, south birmingham linux group...

NAO: How to get government IT right

News Local authorities should ask nine questions to ensure IT success, says a report which looks into government failures

Excel 2007 RTM

Preview Excel 2007's radical overhaul is attractive if you depend upon spreadsheets that can display data patterns visually with charts and conditional formatting. Plus, the new interface places formulas...