Previous DaySearching without thinking
Blog For too long search design has been dictated either by the search engine technology i.e. "Keywords" or by the agregators (Google/Yahoo/MSN) ranking algorithms. Both have their benefits but neither...
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Talkback As a PeopleSoft customer, our satisfaction was initially buoyed by the hopes that Fusion would indeed bring improvements to the table. However, as we've learned more about Fusion and its goals,...
Google exec plays Shakira mash-up to business leaders
News Google head of Europe says the 'hips don't lie' when it comes to new models for content creation and distribution
Salesforce.com extends connections to more applications
News Three new products are designed to ease integration of on-demand applications with customers' own in-house systems
Quick round-up of things worth seeing
Blog There must be fifteen ways to leave your laptop - Joel Spolsky muses on why there are fifteen different ways to shut down a laptop under Vista, while the iPod (sorry, Zune Masters) has no separate...
IT's fatal lack of attraction
Leader Women often regard working in IT with disdain, but it's not they who have to change, it's us
Don't fall prey to these methods of VoIP abuse
Help/HowTo VoIP's growing popularity is bound to attract the attention of spammers and phishers looking for their next scheme
Westminster gets all meshed up
News City of Westminster's municipal Wi-Fi scheme is finally ready to move out of its pilot phase
Tell us about your Vista/Office upgrade plans and win an iPod Nano
Blog OK, this is just getting silly. We've only just closed the competition for five MacBooks (see below), we have a survey running (see the ads on the site) that will let you win one of five iPods, and...
Inside Excel 2007 RTM
Photo A renovated interface and a new file format make Excel 2007 RTM drastically different from its predecessors.
Two more MacBook prize winners
Blog Our IT Manager Pro competition has now closed, and the final two of our five Apple MacBook winners are Ben Rowe from Birstall in West Yorkshire and Paul Madell from Riverside in Cardiff. The prizes...
Transplanted head to review NHS IT
Blog The massive NHS IT overhaul (the National Programme for IT - NPfIT) has a new boss. Richard Granger's not gone, but there's a new NHS chief, David Nicholson, who wants to review the whole...
MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools
News Parliamentary motion claims schools are being forced into buying proprietary software
Oracle setting its sights on Intec?
News UK supplier of telecoms billing software denies claims that it is in talks with Oracle
Opera tests latest mobile browser
News Opera has released a beta version of its Mini mobile browser, and has beefed up security in its latest release candidate for Opera 9.1
3 denies fresh sale rumours
News Reports of managerial sacking revives sale speculation, prompting new denials from Hutchison
About "User Account Protection":
Talkback You say: "Some users report completely uninstallable devices and software...not because of driver issues, but because Vista REFUSED to allow the perfectly valid install to occur. That is a much...
Microsoft loses Korean patent suit
News Court rules against Microsoft over translation technology that is important for key Korean market
Inside PowerPoint 2007 RTM
Photo PowerPoint 2007 puts its features to the fore while offering more graphics abilities and more accessible document security.
SMS trojan threat demonstrated?
Blog An interesting piece here regarding one of those proof-of-concept mobile security threats (none of which have yet come to pass). This one's from a guy called Wilfried Hafner, CEO of SecurStar (who...
Windows Vista RTM
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Christmas shopping crush stalls Walmart.com
News Visitors struggle to access site for 10 hours on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, but e-tailers on the whole survive 'Black Friday'
Disneyland brings in biometric ticketing
Analysis Disney's newest theme park, in Hong Kong, has left legacy technology behind in favour of fingerprint scanners, IP telephony and RFID
French MPs dump Windows for Linux
News French députés will get Linux and productivity software on the desktop from June
Britain's unluckiest man falls down manhole
Blog It's wrong to laugh. But sometimes difficult not to. Especially with this tale of woe. Regular readers of The Register may be able (as I did) to guess the author from the headline.
Novell's top five mistakes
Blog Those of you still struggling to digest the Microsoft-Novell pact should read this piece on the Inquirer. Martin Veitch plays Simon Sharma in a rapid rundown of Novell's various wrong turns and...
