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Blog Comment I remember - but can't find, offhand - that various man-powered generators have been produced for wireless communications since the second world war, where they were intended for special forces...
RE:Bill Gates' departure means Microsoft holy cows are being sl...
Blog Comment "MSFT controls the desktop and has no intention of ceding that to anyone, open source or otherwise." Past attempts to unseat them have failed mainly because of inter-operability, now with browser...
I think you forget how the American "justice system" works(?...
Talkback They may well have to dole out a ton of money. Remember the lady who got millions out of McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on her lap, all because the jury decided that McDonalds should have warned...
Data breaches cost an average business £1.4m
News The vast majority of lost data is accidental rather than a result of any criminal activity, researchers claim
Microsoft DFS - Good or bad?
Forum Is Microsoft DFS (Distributed File System) a good or bad thing? What are the benefits?
Deploying Windows Vista: Hands On
Review This training course provides an engaging in-depth insight into the advantages, and pitfalls, of deploying Microsoft's latest operating system.
Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8
News The ActiveWin website has published the contents of a beta invitation saying the software maker is nearing a launch date for IE8 Beta 1, which will be available for download and testing
Nokia shows off nanotech handset
Photo The partnership between Nokia and Cambridge University bears fruit in the form of a concept handset, unveiled at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
When narrow minds meet next-gen broadband
Leader The announcement of an independent review into next-generation broadband should be a call to arms for the UK's tech innovators
open-source patent threat
Talkback Is it dead? You bet it's not! Microsoft will never let Linux keep moving, if they can stop it. They can make all the promises they want, or make all the public announcements about opening their...
VMware security bug exposed on eve of VMworld
News Security vendor Core Security Technologies claims VMware has failed to fix a severe bug in its virtualisation software
Pakistan turns off YouTube worldwide
Blog Last week, the government of Pakistan decided that YouTube was anti-Islamic and told the local ISPs to turn it off. This they did by announcing to their local Internet that they now owned the...
Bill Gates' departure means Microsoft holy cows are being slaughtered.
Blog That is the take from analyst The 451 Group following Thursday night’s “it looks really big but its actually not” announcement from Microsoft that was positioned by the software giant as if it had...
Cisco faces competition over WAN optimisation
News Rival Riverbed technologies has announced enhancements to its product range that could force Cisco to play catch-up
Have your say about Windows Server 2008
News Help us sort the marketing hype from the genuinely new and useful and you could win an iPod Nano
Adobe launches rich web-development tools
News The creative and web tools specialist claims that giving users richer experiences online should help to boost e-commerce
There needs to be a culture shift - open source yes - free -...
Talkback Working in a large educational establishment I am fully aware of open source potential. I am also aware that to senior management it is seen as attractive only because it is "free". Wanting...
Gov't seeks to boost UK broadband networks
News An independent review has been launched into barriers preventing the rollout of high-speed, next-generation broadband networks in the UK
Judge gives green light to 'Vista Capable' lawsuit
News Consumers can move ahead with a class-action suit against Microsoft over how it advertised computers with XP as capable of running Vista
Facebook's statistical uncertainty
Blog A lesson in picking and choosing statistics here: in the middle of last week, Nielsen stats showed Facebook usage was down 5 percent in the UK from December to January (although MySpace and Bebo...
What to expect from VMworld Europe 2008
Analysis VMware's industry conference will be a chance for the company to show customers and partners whether it has the vision to match its exceptional growth to date
Yoggie Firestick Pico
Review The Firestick Pro is an affordable and effective hardware firewall on a USB stick, designed to protect notebooks when connected to the internet outside the company network.
LinkedIn gets a mobile makeover
News A new-look version of the business network will be available on BlackBerry devices, iPhones, PDAs and mobile phones
Online shopping reaches record high
News UK web sales have increased 75 percent year-on-year, with online shopping in January reaching £4.5bn
Ofcom sells more spectrum licences
News Licences in the higher frequency bands have been awarded to 10 organisations in Ofcom's fourth radio spectrum auction
