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Archive - 20 Oct 2008

Start-up trials mobile video-editing chip

News Irish start-up Movidia has announced working prototype silicon for its mobile-phone processor that enables in-place video editing

BT bundles business wireless broadband

News In an effort to attract more small and medium-sized business broadband customers, BT is adding wireless to the mix

McAfee releases NAC product suite

News The security vendor McAfee has brought out a network access control unification offering

Mozilla releases Fennec mobile-browser alpha

News The organisation behind Firefox has released an alpha version of its Fennec mobile web browser

Red Hat CEO talks virtualisation, Linux and the cloud

Q&A Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst discusses why he thinks rival VMware will fail, how the financial crisis will be good for open source, and why cloud computing will be the future

Apple MacBook

Review Apple's redesigned 13in. MacBook is essentially a shrunken version of the more expensive 15in. Pro line. With its new aluminium body, new touchpad and Nvidia graphics, it's an even more attractive...

Apple's pricing policy (UK)

Blog Under the cover of a new aluminum skin the Apple consumer MacBooks are now up to £200 more than their previous versions.Even the announced price drop of the newly christened MacBook white is £20...

IBM shows off XIV grid-computing tech

Video At Storage Expo, IBM put the XIV system on show in the UK for the first time, to highlight the company's approach to grid-based computing

"Clean Up Your Room" Turns into "Clean Up Your Data"

Blog CleanUp! You first hear these words as a kid from your parents. Clean Up! When you hear this you usually know you’ve made a mess. Clean Up! This is what you shouldn’t be hearing, or, for that...

Passport needed for mobile phone purchases?

Blog The Sunday Times reported (on Sunday) that passports will be needed to register mobile phones, after which mobile users' details will be collated on a centralised government database. This would...

Ericsson 'positive' despite profit drop

News Ericsson's third-quarter profits have fallen by 28 percent from last year, but sales and margins have both increased

Tadasoft system aims to reduce downtime

Video UK start-up Tadasoft has developed a hardware and software system to help IT managers reduce downtime for routine tasks and maintenance

Copan explains Maid storage principles

Video At Storage Expo 2008, Copan Systems explains why having massive arrays of disks doing nothing makes sense in terms of saving energy

3PAR and Symantec team up to reclaim disk space

News A new technology demonstrated at Storage Expo 2008 is aimed at tackling one of the problems with thin provisioning: empty space

Cern lab hones business tech of the future

News The IT department at the lab behind the Large Hadron Collider is testing new tech from companies such as Intel and Oracle that will trickle down into enterprises

Internet-scale 'man in the middle' attack announced

News A researcher has found a nearly invisible way to redirect network traffic through an attacker's network using existing network protocols

Google hedges against exchange-rate changes

News The search giant has started a programme to protect its financial results from changes in exchange rates of foreign currencies compared with the US dollar

Microsoft lawyer: Open-source war is over

News The software maker's top IP lawyer has said that the distinction between open-source and commercial software has largely disappeared

Outsourcing deals slump in third quarter

News The number of mega outsourcing deals fell to just one in the third quarter, as demand from the financial-services sector remains flat

Citrix: why open source virtualisation goes up from the client

Blog A year after buying XenSource, Citrix has evolved its marketing strategy for the Xen open source hypervisor. Virtualisation will be more about application delivery in the long term, and rival...

Symbian squares up to mobile rivals

Q&A The company's chief executive explains how Symbian plans to keep up with rising competition from the likes of Apple, Microsoft and RIM

Mixed Wireless G/N Networks

Blog I was doing some testing with my wireless routers over the weekend, comparing the range of the Linksys WRT350N and the Netgear WNDR3300. I noticed that my Lifebook S6510, which has an Intel 4965...

Renaissance development for enlightened users: no thanks!

Blog I don’t usually warm to ‘star’ analysts at developer conference keynotes that get paid to waltz up and down spouting their opinions for twenty minutes while they pretend to be impartial. Last...

RE:Talk Business Now

Blog Comment Interesting to see some coverage for them Christian. I registered on the site on its first day, mainly for competitive analysis. It looks OK. But most interesting about Talk Biz Now was the...

Work begins on Bournemouth fibre network

News H2O Networks' fibre-to-the-premises network will offer some residents of the town internet speeds of up to 100Mbps

Apple, Psystar pursue dispute-resolution process

News The two companies will undertake a mediated settlement process before resorting to a trial over Psystar's Open Computer, which has Mac OS X preinstalled

Cisco opens pay-as-you-go TelePresence rooms

News The company has opened several videoconferencing rooms for public and business use in cities across the globe

Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'

News Jim Whitehurst has claimed the proprietary software-development model is coming to an end, as open source better meets customer needs

Yahoo job cuts expected

News The company is expected to announce cost-cutting moves this week, including more layoffs, as its stock remains under pressure

RE:No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public librar...

Blog Comment Who needs firemen? Ray Bradbury's dark vision won't require flame or smoke to come true, just the misapplication of idiotic software by idiots. I have no idea why the British Library thinks it has...

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