Previous DaySAP goes big business
Talkback If you're to make changes that benefits your customers, shouldn't they want them first? I guess SAP can no longer bill themselves as 'the one for small and medium size businesses'
Will Drizzle rain on Sun's MySql
Talkback So Drizzle is going to be a leaner and faster open database then MySQL. MySQL 6.0 is slow and blotted - thats a great marketing message! Soon there will be in fighting between the Drizzle and...
Show me the money!
Talkback I think you slightly exaggerate when you say that open source provides millions of jobs. I do not know many Open Source companies that actually make a profit so how can they provide millions of...
SAP users angry at 30 percent price rise
News The replacement of Standard Support with Enterprise Support means some companies will have to pay for a level of support they don't need, a user group has charged
Some more thought may be required
Talkback Whitelisting whilst at first glance appears to be a panacea will need to deal with the following scenarios: 1. How do you deal with an application that for 99.999% of the community is bad but good...
IE8 puts dim wits ahead of tech savvy
Blog You may have heard that IE8 will suppress subdomains on sites. This means if you have a website with a subdomain for different channels/sections - e.g. videos.cnet.co.uk it will display as...
Researchers redefine the internet blacklist
News A Google-inspired technique could make for far more accurate blacklists, predicting which attackers will target particular networks
IT-business degree spawns first graduates
News Eight students have graduated with an industry-supported degree designed to provide the skills required of IT managers and leaders
RE:Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is headed
Blog Comment Yes! I noticed that too! Better perhaps if he had said 'improve the world'. Unfortunately we don't all share the Microsoft vision of the future but, fortunately, it seems that now they may have...
pjc, you miss the point
Talkback The only cancer that has grown is the limitations placed on users by business not interested in competition, and the lack of real innovation that has happened in the IT industry for the last 20...
Nokia throws BlackBerry Connect off new handsets
News The Finnish manufacturer's new E-series business handsets will not work with the BlackBerry email client, as Nokia wants to give users a 'proper choice' of email software
Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is headed
Blog Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the rank and file yesterday, after the announcement that Windows and online chief Kevin Johnson was leaving. (First...
Zimbra Desktop gives Yahoo Mail offline access
News Yahoo, an early leader in web-based email, is trying to leapfrog Google with its Zimbra Desktop software, which offers online documents and offline access
Applications tone up for Beijing Olympics
Blog Given the impending start of the Beijing Olympics on August the eighth we can no doubt brace ourselves for a flurry of news themed around the fact that XYZ Ltd’s latest application has been refined...
Oyster card suffers second rush-hour failure
News London's Oyster travel smartcard system has suffered the second outage in a fortnight, with many commuters enjoying a free trip to work as a result
Negroponte brings wireless meshing to Greek island
News Patmos will soon enjoy island-wide Wi-Fi thanks to One Laptop per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte's passion for the web
Microsoft to power Facebook search ads
News The software maker will deliver an API that can be used by Facebook to integrate Microsoft's web search and its paid search results into the social network's US site
HP unveils latest mobile hardware
News The company has launched a range of new mobile business products in Sydney, including laptops, an iPAQ and its first mobile thin client
Shake those Monkeys!
Talkback Forgive the South Park analogy but this is pure marketing spin. I obviously wouldn't go as far as saying that he's lying. Of course not. To be fair to MS they have a relatively good track record of...
London remains UK's card-fraud capital
News Over the past six months, London saw the most card-not-present fraud in the UK, with Romford and Manchester close behind
Vista still struggling to gain enterprise users
News Less than 10 percent of the 2,300 companies surveyed by Forrester Research use Vista, with Windows XP remaining the version of choice
Google's Blogger top for web-hosted malware
News The search giant's blogging website harbours two percent of all web-hosted malware, according to Sophos
Microsoft: Windows 7 development on track
News The company has said the operating system is on course to ship three years after the release of Vista
Police And The Internet
Talkback I wonder how you can say that it is an invasion of privacy for the police to look at a Face Book, Myspace or Friends Reunited page. 1. i feel sure that they would only be interested in criminals or...
Asia outstrips Europe, US in fibre rollout
News FTTH Council research shows Asian countries taking the top four spots for fibre-to-the-home penetration, with Scandinavia and the US behind
RE:A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment M$ has to do everything it can to force people to use vista, as they aren't using it voluntarily. Seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot more often now-a-days, and I appreciate their...
Think Your Skype Call is Secure? Read This!
Blog There is growing, and credible, speculation that Skype has built in a back door to allow monitoring of SKype calls. Heise Online has a good article about it. So, what we have now is a program...
