Previous DayMicrosoft and Cisco: Cosy competitors
Talkback Ballmer has said the obvious professionally - "Some people like to see things in black or white, we're either partners or competitors... We have to work together in a sophisticated fashion to give...
A: Blu-Ray, B: HD-DVD, C: none of the above
Blog The one thing that will surely finish off the studios, record labels and their pals isn't piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer or bootlegging. It's their own arrogance and contempt for their...
Not a great fibre provider
Blog The longer I work in this business, the more bizarre excuses I hear for network downtime. The Capital's More London complex was apparently cut off from the outside world the other week by rats...
New tech degree to include legacy app migration
News Cobol specialist Micro Focus is aiming to make IT graduates aware of the importance of skills in legacy applications
Half of employers ban Facebook
News Sophos finds many businesses restrict access to the social-networking site due to concerns about productivity and security
Microsoft SharePoint and Access
Talkback They are now "locked in" to proprietary software. When the software is updated they will be forced to replace the old version. Hope they have a savings account.
Dell surprises with server growth
News Dell has a very good second quarter in the server market, while IBM and HP continue to vie for the lead in revenue and market share
Enterasys secures enterprise VoIP
News The LAN equipment vendor has launched a suite of products aimed at making converged voice and data networks as secure as traditional telephony
Zoho takes hosted office apps offline
News Web-based word processor Zoho Writer becomes available as a Google Gears offline application, before Google fully implements the technology itself
Seven habits of effective developers
Help/HowTo Sun engineer Lee Chuk Munn says writing applications is like writing a book — keep it clean and keep it simple
A tale of two Vista systems
Blog I've upgraded two systems to Windows Vista over the past few months, with vastly different results. The first was a nice ultraportable ThinkPad X60, with 512MB of RAM and integrated Intel GMA 950...
Survey finds increasing uncertainty over offshoring
News Reports have not found evidence of offshoring taking jobs out of Europe, but public opinion takes another view
SharePoint brought in to rescue Aboriginal language
News SharePoint and Access used to preserve the Awabakal indigenous dialect in digital form
IBA re-enters iSoft takeover fray
News Australian e-health company ups its offer in an effort to fend off rival CompuGroup
Australian universities call on IT industry for aid
News Universities down under look to IT vendors to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to the skills crisis, a problem also becoming acute in the UK
Licensing issues delay vPro security
News Windows CE licensing problems delay Symantec's Virtual Security Solution for Intel vPro as the security firm shifts towards open source
