Previous DayRE:The Curse of the AC adapter
Blog Comment This is the reason I insist on labeling each AC adaptor before we deploy it. I keep brother label makers all over the firm. It costs hundreds if not thousands of hours of labor each year tracking...
Dumb Design
Talkback No one is claiming that they would be more productive at work if they could type faster. QWERTY works fine, and there is no incentive to switch to this ABCDE silliness. What are you going to do...
Nokia and Moto Open to Anything?
Blog Nokia and Moto Open to Anything? By: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com Though reportedly not a move to outshine the iPhone, Nokia and Motorola have recently announced the “open” nature of...
SWsoft: Parallels compatible with Leopard
News The leading virtualisation software maker for the Mac says issues with optimising its Parallels offering for Leopard aren't serious
Governments failed to foresee IT skills gap
News The increasing lack of people with IT skills vital for keeping the UK competitive was not fully recognised by past governments, Lord Triesman has said
Wi-Fi problems with HP Pavilion notebooks
Video Customers have banded together on HP's forum to try to resolve what seems to be a serious problem with the Wi-Fi feature on some Pavilion notebooks
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee
Blog The Gibbonfest continues. We've just had an Asus Eee in to look at - the £220 laptop that everyone who's seen it is going to buy. It's one of the hottest things in the office this year: the...
Schneier warns about 'security theatre'
Video Talking to ZDNet.co.uk at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, security expert Bruce Schneier urges businesses to find trusted advisers when buying security products and services
Gates, a geek?
Blog A Microsoft supremo has said that Bill Gates does not help young people's perceptions of IT professionals. Speaking at a Westminster eForum event on the IT skills crisis, Stephen Uden, head of...
Managed Hosting
Forum I Manage a small business and we are looking to change our Managed hosting provider but having a few problems knowing who to go to as there seems to be a very big price differential between...
Windows on XO laptops
Talkback Redmond will not stand still when someone tries to rub their nose in the dirt. But, it is hard to understand how they can strip down XP to run on this small machine. More memory requirements, more...
South African government adopts ODF
News The country's government has said it will use the Open Document Format standard in an effort to improve interoperability
Seagate pays out over gigabyte definition
News Customers can claim a five percent refund on the purchase price of their hard drives following a lawsuit over Seagate calculating 1KB at 1,000 bytes not 1,024
Keeping tabs on mobile security
Video Rick Paskins, managing director of Rhetorik Market Intelligence, discusses the results of research carried out by his organisation on behalf of ZDNet.co.uk into UK businesses' attitudes towards the...
Cabinet Office pushes for shared services adoption
Analysis The department's CIO, Peter Court, is striving to get more government departments jumping on the shared services bandwagon
You don't need experts, just listen to the people!
Talkback It is actually going to be very easy to get a "valid" card complete with your own bio-data on it. All you'll need is supporting documents that are already forged. We all know it's easy to get hold...
Why are they still doing this?
Talkback Now a prime representative of the folks we do NOT want getting our data is saying that the ID card database will make it easier to get hold of not harder. He is also giving us the mechanism by...
Privacy watchdog to lead data-sharing review
News The information commissioner will review how personal information is shared and protected by the public and private sectors
WiMax advances may boost 3G
News Nortel believes that mobile operators may be spurred into deployment of higher-speed 3G as WiMax developments gather pace
US tops list of spam-offending countries
News A Sophos report has identified the US as the country sending the most spam — 28.4 percent — over five times as much as second-place South Korea
Inside Mac OS X Leopard
Photo Leopard has a slicker, more reflective look than previous versions of OS X. Check out our screenshot gallery for the details.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Review The grace of Leopard's interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update.
