Previous DayT-Mobile to raise voice-roaming charges
Blog T-Mobile is to raise its per-minute charges for making voice calls while abroad in Europe from 38p to 44p, the mobile operator announced on Tuesday. Voice-roaming charges have been steadily...
Red Hat to appeal Swiss Microsoft decision
Blog Open source services vendor Red Hat is to appeal a Swiss government agency's decision to plump for using Microsoft products, without seeming to consider any others. The Swiss Federal Bureau for...
Sooner (Linux Mint 7), Later (Fedora 11) and Now (ooVoo 2.1)
Blog It looks like Linux Mint will be making their next release, 7 or "Gloria", in the next few days, according to the Linux Mint Blog. This is good news, because the new release is based on Ubuntu...
Sun CTO to form cloud security forum
News Wayne Horkan, Sun's UK chief technology officer, is to form a cross public and private sector organisation to address cloud security issues
Nokia's Ovi Store launch marred by server issues
News The handset maker's answer to the iPhone App Store and the Android Marketplace has opened for business, suffering server overload in the process
Privacy watchdog cracks down on NHS breaches
News The Information Commissioner's Office is asking the Department of Health to tighten up data protection after a series of breaches
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Talkback I'm going to see vSphere4 demonstrated at VMware's HQ on Friday 29 May - so if you have any specific questions you think I should be asking, please drop them here, and I'll put them to VMware...
Vignettes from Interop
Blog Just got back from Interop -- brain's still a bit foggy for the usual trans-Atlantic reasons -- but one thing that sticks with me is the emphasis put on cloud computing. Everyone I spoke to had an...
VMware exec demos fluid network switching
Video Chief technology officer Stephen Herrod explains what the additional features in the company's network-switching distribution will bring to virtualisation
Rural broadband satellite gets funding boost
News The European Space Agency has awarded UK satellite operator Avanti €250k for a system that could fulfil the Digital Britain aims of providing broadband service to rural areas
Model-driven development - Embedded v/s Enterprise software
Blog I recently attended a session on MDD organized by IBM. Following are my take-ways (besides a sumptuous meal, leather wallet & keychain :-)) from the session. I also try to arrive at a set of...
Gateway's priceless notebooks
Photo Gateway has relaunched in the UK with three new business notebooks, but won't reveal any list prices.
IT suppliers must commit to staff training
News The government has unveiled plans to encourage employers to boost the tech skills of their workforce during the economic downturn
IT jobs in firing line at RBS
News The Royal Bank of Scotland is to shed around 700 jobs in its IT and property divisions as part of an effort to cut £2.5bn in costs
Microsoft warns of SharePoint bug
News The software maker has said there is a glitch affecting a recent service pack of the portal software
Stream Computing - not just a load of babble
Blog It was 8am on a bank holiday Monday morning that I was watching the IT news feeds and started seeing mentions of Stream Computing coming to the fore. Being a bank holiday, I though yes very good –...
Dialogue Box 6.5: Linux vs Windows boot-off
Video Microsoft promised quicker boot times with Windows 7, while Linux has always been pretty nippy out of the traps. So which is fastest? Dialogue Box puts Ubuntu 9.04 up against Redmond's latest and...
Windows 7 Search-Run
Blog Back in the days when Windows had a project name of “Longhorn”, one of its potential features was a relational database driving the file system, i.e. SQL Server running the command line or “find”...
