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Blog Comment I did participate in the Vista Beta programme and have since purchased a laptop with Vista installed. The laptop should be an adequate specification and I also doubled the memory but it makes very...
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Talkback Judging by my recent experience of very poor surfing (etc.) on the Internet, either the Internet is overwhelmed per se or by constant attack or abuse of whichever kind.
Monolithic OS upgrades are so over
Blog The days of the monolithic upgrade are over. Five years, $6bn later and what do the ingrates do? Ask for a downgrade to Windows XP. Even Newham Council, which over the past couple of years veered...
Building up organs, blow by blow
Blog When I was young, medicine was a matter of asprin and a hot water bottle. Now our lives may one day depend on aerodynamically assisted bio-jetting. It turns out that biologists have been...
VeriSign: DoS attack could shut down internet
News The .com administrator has warned that networks made up of compromised computers are so powerful, an attack against VeriSign's servers could bring down the net
Cisco pushes for data centres in Scotland
News The networking giant says space, data and power requirements can be more than satisfied by moving data centres north of the border, and there are green advantages too
CNET Networks UK award winner: Zeus Technology
Roundup One of the most hotly debated awards on judging day, Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager won CNET UK's Networking Product of the Year
CNET Networks UK award winner: PatchLink-SecureWave
Roundup PatchLink-Securewave's Sanctuary 4.1 has won Security Product of the Year at the 2007 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards
CNET Networks UK award winner:1E
Roundup Enterprise Software Product of the Year at the 2007 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards was won by 1E's NightWatchman
BT launches secure, hosted IP telephony
News A tie-up with Nortel has produced a CESG-certified, hosted service for large corporates and governmental institutions
Laptops are top choice for mobile working
Feature When it comes to an all-round device for staying productive outside the office, you can't beat a notebook, according to research carried out by ZDNet.co.uk
RE:Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog Comment Bundling is OK. What needs to be declated illegal is Windows being sold tied to a particular computer. Every computer with Windows preinstalled should come with install disks. If you have bought...
IBM urged to lead green-technology charge
News Judges at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards have appealed to the tech giant to help drive the adoption of green tech in the IT industry
A woman? In IT?
Talkback Well, it's not so simple, as Mr. B-L says. I have been working in IT departments for ten years now, and I have experienced a lot of discrimination. The fact is, those, who tried to put me away from...
That's the result of popularity
Talkback That's the result of popularity and all the anti-Microsoft campaigns. Firefox better than IE? OS X better than Windows? Linux better than anything? The more users installs an "alternate" product,...
CNET Networks UK award winner: Cisco
Roundup The company's TelePresence system won Enterprise Hardware Product of the Year at the 2007 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards
CNET Networks UK award winner: iPass
Roundup The Mobile Product or Service of the Year was awarded to iPass Mobile Office, which impressed judges in terms of its simplicity and the amount of choice it offers users
RE:Ultimate Extra! Ultimate Extra! Read all about... what?
Blog Comment Microsoft is so old school, and not in a good way, with deep grooves and loads of funky bass, but in a bad way, with superficial bizzare names of invisible, under-delivered or never-realized...
Microsoft's winning ways
Talkback All good points there, but should we really be accepting Windows' enormous monopoly purely because it is trickier and a bit more expensive to support alternatives? So the convenience of the status...
Is follow-the-sun all good news?
Blog A good many of us regularly work with contacts in every corner of the world and are constantly pursued by the new ‘follow the sun’ attitude to global 24-hour contact. Personally, working left to...
Microsoft claims Windows Server 2008 'milestone'
News The software giant has announced the release of Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0
Fear users, says IDC security chief
News Educating end users is not enough to successfully mitigate internal security threats and data loss, warns the analyst group
and of couse the eu is going to..
Talkback Pay for all the highly trained support people that the vendors will need to support ALL those operating systems. One of hte biggest issues on the CEO plate today is the sheer cost of IT support....
Kaspersky to concentrate on whitelisting
Blog Antivirus company Kaspersky will concentrate on whitelisting in version 8.0 of its enterprise security software, according to David Em, senior technology consultant for Kaspersky. The company...
Linux crashes the mobile party
Feature Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?
Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog Microsoft has responded to our request for comment after a "free-market" EU thinktank, the Globalisation Institute, recommended that all PCs in Europe should be sold without a preinstalled...
Major bug in MS Excel 2007
Blog Got a copy of Excel 2007 handy? Try multiplying 850 by 77.1 - the answer should be 65535. Excel 2007 thinks it's 100000. Older versions of the spreadsheet - as well as the latest...
RE:Microsoft Killing XP so that Vista Can Live
Blog Comment While I am a big fan of Vista and find it frustrating when I have to use a system running XP I still feel that forcing people onto Vista is not the way forward. Users should have the choice....
Businesses see barriers to iPhone adoption
News Cost and the network-operator restriction are preventing chief information officers from selecting the iPhone as a corporate device
When open phones meet closed minds
Comment Opening up mobile networks and devices should go hand in hand with an overhaul of mobile security thinking
OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems
News A vulnerability in OpenOffice could allow attackers to remotely execute code on computers running Windows, Linux, or Mac OS
Research: Mobile working on the increase
Special Report An exclusive survey has revealed that nearly two-thirds of companies are seeing an increasing proportion of mobile workers
Trojan attack targets top executives
News Security firm MessageLabs has warned of the risk posed by malware-infected emails aimed at C-level executives
Make Sure You Read the Fine Print
Talkback Make Sure You Read the Fine Print before making a Career (or Income) Limiting Move - to see why see the article at http://www.pcprofile.com/Office_Collaboration.pdf that I wrote some months ago on...
Microsoft sets price on Office 2008 for Mac
News The software, now slated for a January release, will come in three flavours
