Previous DayLotus aims to be cool
Blog IBM is trying to be hip. It is an almost frightening prospect, but hip is a definite feature of the IBM agenda and it aspires to be not just ordinary hip, but suited and button-down hip. A...
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Talkback Good story, I can only think of one more question which must be on everyone's mind and which the reporter could have raised and that is; 'so why are Apple charging for the upgrade if the rules they...
VoIP vs evil roaming costs
Blog In the wake of 3's abolition of roaming charges, the CEO of internet telephony provider Coms (nope, me neither) has issued a rather triumphalistic statement about how it's all the result of...
HP to open research lab in Russia
News Lab will concentrate primarily on core IT issues such as data extraction, information management and utility computing
Lords a-leaping at internet security
News The week ahead: As the House of Lords continues its IT probe, IBM kicks off Lotusphere and the NHS IT upgrade comes under scrutiny
IT firms commit to fighting carbon
News BT, Salesforce.com and 3PAR have given their corporate strategies a greener hue
Organised crime online needs an organised response
Leader Online fraud has the potential to cripple e-commerce. Time to take the threat seriously
Experts gather for cybercrime conference
News Forthcoming confidential meeting will bring together security experts from various fields to discuss online crime
Photos: Germany's Leibniz supercomputer
Photo We take a trip around the Leibniz supercomputer, where an ongoing upgrade will boost performance to 60 teraflops
Good in theory
Talkback I think having GPS available on mobiles would be a good idea - but i doubt whether it will really take off and be used frequently/successfully in the UK (and Europe for that matter).
Real-time text chat for the deaf
Blog A middleware company called OpenCloud (not to be confused with WLAN provider The Cloud) has been in touch to make us aware of a Dutch charity for the hearing-impaired, which is using its...
'Storm Worm' slithers on
News A large-scale Trojan attack continued unabated over the weekend and into Monday
Sox Stinks
Talkback Anything that can undermine Sarbanes-Oxley to the public is a good thing. Sox is ruining American business--it assumes everyone is a crook! I don't blame business for running to London (whoda thunk...
Whiteboard: Analysing your competitors
Video Use the strategic group map technique to determine where your competitors are in the market, where you are and where you need to be
Simplistic
Talkback MSCs are used by many as a way of getting someone else to do the massive quantities of paperwork involved in running your own company. The point of taking some of the profit as dividend was meant...
Orange to finally launch HSDPA?
Blog It seems, perhaps, maybe, that Orange is getting ready to roll out HSDPA in the UK. Took them long enough - everyone else has it (even 3's bringing it in) and EDGE, if you will excuse the pun, just...
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Talkback I wonder what effect this will have in making people realise that MS office isn't the only product available?
ICANN hires journalist critic
Blog Congratulations to Kieren McCarthy, a technology writer who many of you may be familiar with (he's written for The Guardian, The Register and Techworld, among others). Now, though, he's joining...
Galileo project 'hindering' phone sat-nav rollout
News O2 executive claims poor communication from the team behind Europe's answer to GPS is slowing down the adoption of satellite navigation in handsets
Good
Talkback I don't see why contractors shouldn't pay NI like the rest of us!
Privacy
Talkback I wonder what will be done with all this GPS information? It would not be beyond the with of man (or a phone company) to record all this information and be able to track your movements. Do you...
Takeovers hit 'dot-com boom' high
News IT companies spent over €100bn on mergers and acquisitions in 2006, leaving many with a choice of 'buy or be bought'
Smell my phone!
Talkback Hopefully these phones will be preset with a smell, rather thatn choose your own, yet it raises the important point of what smell would you choose for your phone? Fish and Chips (with salt and...
Bill Gates with Napoleon Dynamite
Blog From a 2005 Microsoft conference, to which several employees took video cameras, comes this really pretty funny video. Sadly Bill's dancing - even alongside Napoleon - has lost some of the dynamism...
Apple explains its accounting conundrum
News Obscure accounting rule means users must pay to get 802.11n Wi-Fi, says Apple, but some experts aren't impressed
Groups merge to create Linux Foundation
News Open Source Developer Labs and Free Standards Group have joined together in an effort to increase their influence
Photos: Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
Photo Is it a handheld? A tablet PC? A personal video player? Just what is the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet? Read our review to find out more about this mobile device and check out the photos here.
Sun and Intel pair up on Xeon-based servers
News CEOs of the two companies are expected to announce the deal on Monday, which sees Sun resume its use of Intel's chips
'Storm Worm' sweeps the globe
News Malicious email is fooling people into becoming part of a botnet by offering information about the recent real-life storms across Europe
aww
Talkback This has been a long time coming. Weird that they only did it half way :(
