Previous DayA promise for the future...
Talkback Ah well, better than nothing (maybe). Should this "act of goodwill" mitigate what's going on now? Becta, the EC rulings etc. I rather think not. If Microsoft "play nice" in the future that's where...
Egg of their faces!
Talkback Vintage Microsoft, pushing through their own standard because the existing (ODF) was inadequate and customers supposedly wanted choice, now they realise they want to be involved in ODF, why waste...
Interesting Turn of Events
Talkback Looks like Microsoft has realised that a poorly written standard is complex if not impossible to use so are now trying to backtrack and use ODF instead. After spending all that time and effort...
Why is the Italian army shooting techies?
Blog The current crisis in Burma and China mean that the invaluable work of humanitarian and aid organisations is even more in the public eye than normal – with normal being the ongoing conflicts in...
What exactly that egg thrower said to Ballmer
Blog You have probably already seen the video of Steve Ballmer getting egged in Budapest - but trying to work out what the egger was saying to the eggee isn't too easy - especially if you don't speak...
iPass: We like embedded 3G now
Blog About half a year ago I had a chat with some folks from iPass, the Wi-Fi hotspot aggregators. At the time, they said it was not sensible for businesses to buy laptops with embedded...
Microsoft's ODF support - are people convinced?
Blog Microsoft's sudden decision to support ODF has caught everyone on the hop - and there's still lots of scepticism about it. "Microsoft latest bullshit", is the response from the OOXML is...
OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
News Microsoft blames backwards compatibility issues and changes made during the ISO ratification process for its decision to support ODF instead of OOXML in Office 2007
Brilliant
Talkback Another Goodwins classic. Agree with nearly all of the items in the gallery. How these companies think that what they are doing is good business or in the best interests of their users is beyond...
Linux opens London's Oyster
Case Study Open-source software helped London's Oyster-card system move past a proprietary roadblock, instantly cutting the regular charges for licensing and hosting by 80 percent
Why is T-Mobile trying to stall 2.6GHz auction?
Blog Here's an interesting one, reported a few weeks ago in the Grauniad but only picked up today by yours truly, while listening to Charles Jenne, Ofcom's policy director for spectrum, at the Mobile...
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft weather the ever-changing climate of software code development
Liability and privacy: Key to Web 2.0 services
News Governments have been criticised for taking a 'risk-averse and closed-minded approach' that does little to encourage citizens to use their online services
Accenture: Time is ripe to test cloud computing
News The company's chief scientist has said cloud computing is now mature enough for CIOs to experiment with
Introducing the OLPC's '$75 laptop'
Photo While yet to achieve its target price for the original '$100 laptop', OLPC is working on a next-generation device with an even lower price in mind: $75
O2 launches smartphone-management service
News The company's service covers initial configuration of mobile data devices, day-to-day account administration and technical support
Rollout of NHS e-record software faces more delays
News Connecting for Health and CSC may be preparing a new contract extending the schedule for implementation of the Lorenzo software until 2016
HP, EDS clients advised to review contracts
News Outsourcing consultants have advised HP and EDS clients that they may be able to push for a better deal following the companies' recent merger
I wonder what percentage of users is streaming vs downloadin...
Talkback The Mac users presumably must be streaming, so that's at least 10% right there. And considering all the controversy over the original Windows-centric download-only DRM'ed service, I wonder what...
Femtocells gather steam after interoperability pact
News Members of industry association the Femto Forum have agreed a single common approach for integrating femtocells into mobile networks via broadband
Microsoft Office 2007 to support ODF, PDF
News The company has announced plans to build support for the rival formats into Office 2007 as part of Service Pack 2 for the software
HP to overtake BT as top government IT supplier
News Following its merger with EDS, HP is set to receive a greater share of government tech spending than BT, the former leader in the field
Gates: Microsoft to target e-commerce search
News Bill Gates says the company is focusing on cornering the e-commerce search market, through a scheme giving cash back to Live Search users
Microsoft's U-turn: ODF support and not OOXML?
Blog After all its efforts in support of OOXML, Microsoft has decided Office 2007 will handle ODF documents - and will never support the standardised version of its OOXML format, which it fought so hard...
A miasma of unending complexity
Talkback Rupert. Interesting to note that everyone seems to have a comment or opinion either about your post itself or on one of the products mentioned. What is of concern to me and something which I...
