Previous DayGood reason not to use Vista
Talkback This is just another good reason to ditch this load of rubbish. I used Vista for about 5 days before it drove me to distraction and I installed XP. Service pack 1 should have sorted out the mess...
Sorry, I missed the part where it becomes a dis-service!
Talkback Apple guilty of filling people's harddrives with stuff they might not use. Is software bundling a new sin invented by Apple? And yes there is a difference between this and malware; malware tracks...
I use ......
Talkback SlimBrowser which is one of those browser applications modifying and sitting on top of the Internet Explorer engine. It has a nice look to it, is convenient to use and really does do just what I...
IBM moves to expedite mashups for mobile
News The company is releasing software targeted at mobile application developers for building both business and consumer Web 2.0 mashups
Another judge rules for program patentability
News Arguing that 'it is simply inaccurate to label all programs within the computer as software', a High Court judge has ruled Symbian should be granted a patent for an indexing method
RE:You Thought Call Centres Were Bad
Blog Comment Excellent post and really useful info. I've found very mixed results when dealing with companies support recently but overall email support tends to be better than call centre especially in IT...
I disagree
Talkback "However, van den Beld argued that national bodies had more than enough time, from September 2007 to last month's ballot meeting, to resolve issues pertaining to the OOXML specification." It is not...
BT invites Second Life users to AvaTalk
News The company is exploring demand for virtual-to-real-world communications via a one-month trial of its free phone and texting service
RE:Vista SP1 - Now Installed and Running
Blog Comment Glad you managed to get SP1 installed. And thanks for the credit. The file transfer I found was slightly quicker in general but the biggest improvement in speed was transferring from a system...
Turning over a new leaf at Quark
Q&A Quark is a company in transition. Chief executive and president Ray Schiavone discusses the claim that it is revolutionising publishing — again
Digital Healthcare - more signs of things to come
Blog I remain utterly convinced that digitally assisted personal healthcare will be the biggest technology-oriented market since the personal computer. How can it not be - only the adoption of Internet...
I'm curious...
Talkback What are these 300 products? Adding to that, as OOXML has a truckload of flaws, what are they thinking? How do you make a working product with a broken foundation? Next we'll be being told that...
Safari - get lost!
Talkback I was not aware that Safari was going to be forced on me so when I saw the Safari icon on my desktop I panicked! I Googled Safari and discovered it was an Apple feature bundled with iTunes. Thus...
Standards expert defends OOXML fast-track bid
News The former secretary general of Ecma has dismissed claims that the move to fast-track the ISO approval process for Microsoft's OOXML is flawed and unfair
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News The Bangalore-based company will open a low-cost regional software development facility outside London and the south-east
Apple AirPort Express Base Station (802.11n)
Review Don't pick up a new, 802.11n-enabled AirPort Express if you're looking for superfast wireless networking performance. You should consider it, however, if you're in the market for a new Wi-Fi router...
Sneeky Apple
Talkback Safari uptake on PC was unlikely to be significant and this move by Apple doesn't surprise me in that I expected it to be bundled in with itunes just as they did with quicktime. I never wanted...
3Com seeks $66m break-up fee over failed merger
News The company is pursuing Bain Capital Partners for the termination fee after the latter pulled the plug on a merger, citing US regulatory concerns
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog OK I know; Apple doesn't get a whole lot wrong does it? (Although I drafted this blog before seeing the lead story “Firefox chief fumes over Apple Safari update” on ZDNET this morning.) So it's...
Multi-OS PCs suffer Vista SP1 installation hitches
News Vista Ultimate and Enterprise owners also running a non-Microsoft OS on the same PC may not be able to install SP1 without changing the boot process of their machines
Microsoft offers free support for Vista SP1 installs
News The software giant says it will give free support until 18 March, 2009, to those experiencing difficulty installing Service Pack 1
Firefox chief fumes over Apple Safari update
News Mozilla's John Lilly has compared Apple's inclusion of Safari as a default add-on installation in the latest iTunes update to the way malware is distributed
RE:One of the scariest things I've seen
Blog Comment Though I've seen it before, it's still nonetheless amazing to note just how far robotics has come. BigDog looks more like a test for 'off-world' exploration (think next moon landing or mission to...
Run Ubuntu Linux on a USB drive
Video Find out how to run Ubuntu from a USB thumbdrive and, for kicks, do it in Windows
