Previous DayRE:Traveling Success with Linux
Blog Comment Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. I promise you, I didn't download or add anything to get WiFi connections working on Ubuntu and Kubuntu (both Hardy Heron 8.04.1). Click on the...
RE:IE8 puts dim wits ahead of tech savvy
Blog Comment So...surely this will push more people in the direction of firefox, won't it ? This is intruiging indeed. What do MS gain by behaving in this way. From where I'm standing, the default...
No suprise
Talkback It shouldn't surprise anybody that companies would opt for open source, its much better to pay just for support rather than the normally astronomical license fees. I am surprised however that a...
Microsoft allows GPL
Blog Along with its surprise funding of Apache, Microsoft has updated some aspects of its "Open Specification Promise" and - surprise - people are positive about it. Microsoft is sponsoring the...
Here Comes Everybody
Review Improved communications have widened the notion of business competition. This book documents the next stage: competitors who are as hard to compete with as the many-headed Hydra.
Things I didn't know about Gmail, volume one...
Blog One of our high-powered product development people here called me over to his desk this morning. "I think there's a security problem with GMail," he said. "I keep getting emails for someone else...
IBM to buy French software house Ilog
News The company is the latest in a long line of software acquisitions by the US giant
Open-source sales growing despite economy
News An Open Solutions Alliance survey has found business is booming for open-source vendors, despite the general spending downturn
Will a recession impact security spending?
Blog We are, or so the press keep telling us, gearing up for an economic slowdown, if not full blown recession. In this climate, many information security teams will be assessing the impact of a cut in...
Great New ooVoo Release!
Blog Good grief, I go away for a few days and what happens? ooVoo comes out with a new release (1.7), and it's a beauty! As with the 1.6 release, it is a huge leap forward, and it shows that they are...
Google Apps: The Missing Manual
Blog Not one to shy away from a good read, I spent some of this last weekend reading Google Apps: The Missing Manual. Faced as I am with writing projects that span from Ohio to Tasmania with a brief...
ViewSonic VP950b
Review Once you've calibrated the colours using the bundled PerfectSuite Plus software, the VP950b will deliver exceptional image quality. All that's left to consider is whether a 19in. display with a...
First attacks on DNS flaws reported
News In a mailing-list post, a Linux user revealed what he claimed is evidence of attacks stemming from the critical Domain Name System flaw
EC gives green light to HP-EDS merger
News HP's $13.9bn acquisition of the computer services company has now won approval from both US and European antitrust authorities
Ex-Googler launches rival Cuil search engine
News A new search tool has been launched that claims to have 120 billion pages indexed, well over the 40 billion Google reportedly has
RE:Microsoft's pre-modern message puts a new face on Vista
Blog Comment We techies will end up supporting Vista in the ecosystem, like it or not. Personally, I would prefer if Microsoft invested the $300 million in making Vista better, (or at least put it on a diet)...
Microsoft funds Apache
Analysis The software giant is sponsoring a major open-source organisation, in a move that may not be as counterintuitive as it first appears
Cuil and the search for the self
Blog Reading about Cuil, the Google rival launched by ex-Googler Anna Patterson and her husband Tom Costello, I decided to start off my experiment with a search for my name. Call me egotistical. The...
San Francisco 'hijacked' passwords made public
News The San Francisco district attorney's office in a court document has apparently made public usernames and passwords 'hijacked' by a city network admin
AT&T challenges WiMax joint venture
News The US phone giant has filed a petition with the FCC to stop Sprint Nextel and Clearwire from combining WiMax assets to build a competing nationwide wireless broadband network
iPhone: The Phone of Choice for Super Heros (and Villans)
Blog This weekend I spoted the iPhone being used by various celebrity heroes and villains. Seems to be all the rage: Lord Vader still can't get used to working without a stylus Supergirl calls...
Generation Y keeping companies on their toes
News Today's tech-savvy 18- to 28-year-olds are setting the technology agenda, while companies are struggling to get to grips with this key audience
Gateway calls a halt to direct PC sales
News Now part of Acer, the Gateway brand will be distributed through retail and channel partners only
Google-Digg acquisition talks fall through
News With talks of an acquisition in the final stage, Google has reportedly decided not to buy the social-news site
Traveling Success with Linux
Blog I have spent the past four days on a short vacation in the Piedmont area of northwest Italy (beautiful landscape, wonderful people and excellent food!). This has given me the opportunity to make a...
RE:Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the greatest of them all.
Blog Comment What are you talking about? Be explicit, GUI functionality ? Underpinnings ? While Microsoft's Vista copies "new" old GUI things from Tiger which is a 2 year old OS in their February '08 launched...
$200 million dollars of payoff money up for grabs.
Blog Mary Foley is following Rupert Again. Earlier somebody here wondered in print what it would be like to be MS CEO. Now maybe we ought to wonder what we could do with $200 million of MS'...
Microsoft's way of improving Vista
Blog Had a great laugh today when reading: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1453 Having Vista installed on my laptop I wonder why they are putting so many millions in an advertising campaign...
