Previous DayReducing Noise
Talkback When I was doing serious electronic in the 70's I found that transistor noise was a pain. This was made worse when two or more transistors were in close proximity and I resorted to tuning out the...
Google unleashes Wave on developers
News Google has announced a peer-to-peer-based collaboration platform called Wave, and is inviting developers to help create its underlying protocol
Microsoft unveils 'Bing' search engine
News The company shows off a rebranded, enhanced service designed to provide decision support
Qualcomm unveils 'smartbook' Linux netbooks
Blog Qualcomm has announced a major push into the netbook market — although the chipmaker is calling the devices 'smartbooks' in a bid to pitch them between smartphones and notebooks. Luis Pineda,...
HP plans 5,700 job cuts in EMEA
News In a new wave of job cuts, the company is to lay off thousands of employees, including 710 who will be laid off in the closure of a factory in Erskine
HDS storage controller gets failover clustering
News High Availability Manager adds clustering capabilities to Universal Storage Platform V controller, with the promise of no downtime for applications or servers
Analyst: Mobile broadband booming in Europe
News More than one in 10 broadband connections in Europe are carried out over HSPA mobile networks, according to a Swedish analyst firm
Force.com improves link to Google's cloud
News The new version of Force.com lets Google App Engine developers use Java to communicate between the two cloud platforms
Google chief touts always-on computing
Video The company's chief executive Eric Schmidt says his vision for a new computing paradigm "is the beginning of the real win of cloud computing"
Reports: HP to cut 840 jobs in Scotland
News The hardware giant will reportedly move its manufacturing of storage devices and servers from its Erskine plant to the Czech Republic
Google tests out customisation for Apps
News The company is recruiting testers for a beta of a scripting feature that lets businesses customise and automate actions in its online applications
Sata 3.0 paves way for slimmer notebooks
News The new version of the Serial ATA specification, released on Wednesday, also promises smoother video playback from storage drives using the interface
RE:Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
Blog Comment @Telic - Of course I knew how to check for Ubuntu updates, but the point is that with mintUpdate I don't have to slog through the menus to get to the Update Manager, the information is right in...
Yahoo CEO: Microsoft search-deal talks ongoing
News Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said during a conference that the company continues to discuss a search deal with Microsoft and indicated a willingness to sell
Which is the best smartphone for business?
Analysis ZDNet.com.au talks to executives and analysts to find out which handsets are picking up speed and which are falling by the wayside
Apple updates low-end MacBook
News Included in the update to the low-end notebook are a slightly faster processor and a larger hard drive, bringing it closer in specs to the aluminium MacBook
What is the cloud's killer app?
Video SAP's chief technology officer Vishal Sikka points out two key areas for continued research, real-time search and mobility for application development in the cloud
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the US National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nano-scale transistors
iPhone apps will challenge Google's mobile search
Comment Google's biggest challenge in mobile search is not other search engines or platforms — it is iPhone apps, says Jason Hiner
RE:Radical Idea: Charge Vendors for Software Deployed in School...
Blog Comment I totally agree. I work for the local education department and manage/install applications for schools. The price of some of these applications are ridiculously high, especially for multi-user...
UK flexible working options on rise, says survey
News Sheffield businesses offer the most opportunity for flexible working, with Brighton and Liverpool showing lower rates, according to a survey of working habits in the UK
Google: The browser is the computer
News HTML 5 technologies will let web developers build apps almost as cool as anything found on the desktop, according to Google execs and engineers
Adobe introduces online presentation tech
News Adobe Systems will offer Acrobat.com Presentations, a technology to help users collaborate on producing and sharing presentations online
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
Blog I have now loaded the new release of Linux Mint on all four of my laptop and netbook computers. It loaded absolutely smoothly on all four of them, including both HP 2133 netbooks, with no problems...
NZ, UK, Australia
Talkback One imagines that either the NZ government negotiators finally got, ahem, huevos, or that the NZ government doesn't have money to burn on needless software licence costs, unlike the UK and...
Radical Idea: Charge Vendors for Software Deployed in Schools
Blog Many years back, when I had the time to make the rounds at various government education departments, I asked the brass why on earth they didn't charge software vendors (like Microsoft, Adobe et al)...
