Previous DayRE:A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment I've tried to stay out of this one, really I have but... DC v AC Working temperatures of superconductors has been slowly rising. It isn't necessary to have room-temperature ones just that they...
Definitely Netbooks to Blame, uh-huh
Talkback Oh yeah, it's definitely netbooks, it couldn't possibly be that Vista gulps buckets. Just think how bad their revenue would have been if Microsoft hadn't been forcing all those customers who...
Is this story a waste of ink?
Blog There's an aspect of technology journalism that I'm finding troublesome. Perhaps you can help. A good example is this story, which I reproduce in part with thoughts interspersed. In this case...
Seagate issues second fix for disk issue
Blog Seagate on Thursday issued a firmware update which the company said should solve a problem it has been having with some disk drives. The problem came to light on Tuesday when users began...
RE:A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment As a practical and hopefully informed engineer just out from the electrics of a 1982 VW Golf :-) ..... I will be very happy to have my comments judged by the market place. No need to discuss as...
Huawei almost ready with Android phone
Blog Oh, I am looking forward to Mobile World Congress this year. Not only will I be fondling the new Palm in my, erm, palm, but there will probably be a good few Android devices knocking about. Given...
6,000 jobs threatened at Intel
News The company has said it is closing two factories and aims to consolidate, with up to 6,000 jobs affected
UK site offers bounty for DDoS attackers
News Overclockers.co.uk has offered a £10k reward for assistance in convicting those responsible for a sustained distributed-denial-of-service attack on the site
Gov't agencies fall short on data accuracy
News Freedom of Information requests sent out to government departments have revealed a widespread lack of policies for making sure citizens' data is kept accurate and up to date
2009's harsh realities highlight losers — and winners
Leader As the first round of tech-sector financial results for 2009 unfold, it seems a bleak January for the technology industry — but with one ray of light
Nokia's net profit drops by 69 percent
News Poor sales in China, the Middle East and Africa prompt analysts to call on Nokia to introduce more 'iconic' high-end smartphones
Citrix, Intel team up on desktop virtualisation
News The companies say they will deliver desktop virtualisation based on Intel's vPro and the Xen hypervisor
Autonomy snaps up Interwoven for £560m
News The Cambridge company known for enterprise search believes purchase of the US software maker will strengthen its compliance reach
Microsoft to shed 5,000 jobs
News 'We are not immune', says Ballmer, as 5,000 job losses are announced amid disappointing revenues
Cisco patches Security Manager flaw
News The company has released an out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability that could enable a successful attack on Cisco security products
Dell Latitude E4200
Review Dell's smallest Latitude is a 1kg, 12.1in. ultraportable that benefits from a fast solid-state hard drive and integrated mobile broadband. However, it lacks an optical drive and, inexplicably, a...
Obama Wikipedia page under possible security attack?
Blog Barack Obama’s web presence may have come under some pressure today as his Wikipedia page appeared to show signs of malfunction for a period between midday GMT and 12:45pm around the time of this...
VirtualBox - hedging my bets
Blog For my latest Joomla! site, I have set up a Windows XP Virtual Machine (VM), using the VirtualBox Open Source Edition. Trouble is, once I'd installed Internet Explorer 7, I couldn't get a...
Asus Eee PC S101
Blog I’ve been sitting on the Eee PC S101 for rather longer than I ought to have done – sorry about that Asus. But one of the reasons is that it is really a very nice machine indeed. The Eee PC S101...
Downturn could lead to single next-gen network
News The global economic slump could make regulators look at single fibre-network deployment shared by different operators rather than the current multiple-network approach to competition, says a report
eBay reports drop in revenue and earnings
News The online auction giant posts a seven percent drop in revenue, missing analysts' projections, and a double-digit decline in net income over the same period a year ago
Downadup virus hits PCs at five Sheffield hospitals
News Three weeks after it hit, engineers are still clearing up the 'last remnants' of the virus that infected computers at five Sheffield hospitals
Apple sails past Q1 earnings expectations
News The company seemed to buck the trend during its first fiscal quarter, but provided its usual conservative outlook for the upcoming quarter
Do mobile developers do IT with a social conscience?
Blog Do mobile developers think about the commercial and privacy-based issues thrown up by the applications they develop? I’m sure many of them do – and I’m also sure that many of them have very...
