Previous DayGNOME Do What?!
Blog On my quest for ever smaller icons and ever smaller finger movements on my Acer Aspire One Natty Book, I have come across GNOME Do. This is an application launcher based on the Mac's Quicksilver...
Cutting down on e-waste and making WEEE work
Blog Just seen this in from IT charity Computer AId which takes old PCs from UK companies and refurbishes them for the developing world. The organisation has launched a petition calling on the...
ISO never learns, IBM does
Blog IBM slating ISO's standards work? That is possibly the most ironic It event of the year - but I'm afraid you need some ancient history to appreciate it. Thirty years ago, the boot was on the...
Mobile Biometrics: The Future of Mobile Law Enforcement
Blog Mobile Biometrics: The Future of Mobile Law Enforcement Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com If you find yourself strolling the Biometric Consortium Conference in Tampa, FL this week...
Help for Haiti: Calling for Relief
Blog By Oisin Walton I am among the two teams of Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) emergency telecommunications specialists who deployed to Haiti as it was hit by four cyclones--Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and...
Open source vendor in schools IT supply list
Blog An open source vendor has been made an accredited schools supplier by Becta, the government agency which oversees IT in UK schools. Sirius Corporation announced on Monday that it had achieved...
First Google Android phone unveiled
Roundup With its Android platform, Google hopes to provide a viable alternative to the current crop of largely proprietary mobile platforms
EC proposes further roaming price cuts
News The European Commission has proposed that text-roaming costs be cut by 60 percent, and that measures be introduced to prevent data-roaming 'bill shocks'
IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News In the wake of ISO's approval of Microsoft's OOXML, IBM has joined calls for standard-body reform
Photos: Flash CS4 Professional
Photo Take a look inside Adobe's new Flash CS4 Professional, which is easier for newcomers to learn and less hassle for veterans to use.
Flash CS4 Professional: a first look
Preview The latest version of Adobe's Flash Professional reinvents the process of animation creation, and streamlines its workspace.
RE:Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 - Good News for Laptop Users
Blog Comment The biggest gripe that I have with Ubuntu is the problem with setting up multiple displays (with and without multiple videocards). Winblows works very well at this :-S
Police drop investigation into BT's Phorm trials
News The justification offered by City of London Police — that there was no criminal intent in the Phorm ad-serving trials — has been branded 'cretinous' by a thinktank
This is not the whole truth
Talkback Why would you want your medical data on this ridiculous system? Well, for my part, I'm not exactly sure but it would presumably have something to do with the medics being able to see it; yes? Sure!...
Windows Live Registration Required?
Talkback If installing and setting up Windows Live Mail is anything like what it is for Windows Live Messenger, it will require you to register for a Windows Live account, or whatever they call it. Sounds...
RE:Here comes the Small Business blog
Blog Comment One of my favourite topics... a) because I work in a small business (70 employees) and b) spend most of my time talking to small businesses.. if I had a tenner for every time this topic comes...
The motives for embracing green IT
Video At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference, tech execs discuss the environmental and financial effects of switching to more energy-efficient products
Stolen data being tunnelled through EU and US
News Compromised data is increasingly being channelled through legitimate EU and US companies that provide anonymity services, says security training organisation Sans
Photoshop CS4 Extended: a first look
Preview Is there enough new in Adobe's Photoshop CS4 to justify the upgrade price? Here are our first impressions.
RE:Software Freedom Day 2008 - a damp squib in England?
Blog Comment I had the pleasure of attending (and speaking at) the Dundee event, and I'd just like to say congratulations to everyone who made it what it was! And to top it all off, it looks like we were...
Photos: Adobe Creative Suite 4
Photo Take a look inside Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, which unifies the interfaces of all the constituent applications to give a more seamless experience.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection: a first look
Preview Adobe's Creative Suite 4 updates over a dozen design and editing tools. The first of our previews examines the all-encompassing Master Collection.
Telepresence used to boost Afghan troops' morale
News Nato is using Cisco videoconferencing tech to enable virtual meetings between front-line troops and relatives
RE:Patching things up
Blog Comment This is a very good post, about a very important issue. But what can be done to solve the problem? To take the absolute simplest example, how can the average user be expected to differentiate...
Europe inches closer to full e-passport rollout
News The UK was one of 27 countries that took part in tests which successfully demonstrated second-generation e-passports could be recognised by authentication systems in more than one country
Microsoft strips email, photo apps from Windows 7
News The next version of Windows will push users to download Windows Live programs to handle email, photo-editing and movie-making tasks
RE:Open Access is a Two-Way Street
Blog Comment Dan York has posted an interesting analysis of both sides of this issue. It's worth reading, if you are interested in the details. His bottom line is basically the same as Michael Robertson said...
Oracle's Beehive aims to help project collaboration
News The enterprise software heavyweight has unveiled a new collaboration and communication application at Oracle OpenWorld
Android may spread beyond phones
Analysis One influential partner backing the open-source operating system has said the software will start to show up in consumer electronics and cars, too
A rough guide to mobile open source
Photo Android is not the only open platform. Here's a quick guide to the mobile, open-source landscape
